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Story Courtesy of Lloyd Steino, Deus Ex Machina Japan

Deus Powder Tools is a concept brand born from Deus Japan.  Deus Ex Machina is not just about surfing and motorbikes, it's about 'simple respect for the honesty and enjoyment of the Machine’. It's celebrating and appreciating a ‘Culture of Creativity’ whether that be hand-shaping retro surfboards, customizing your motorbike or bicycles, creating unique art or music. The Japanese have been hand-shaping snowboards for some time now and they also have a deep respect and appreciation for Nature’s four seasons, with the snowy winters being a big part of the culture. We wanted to add a part of Japan’s culture/identity we felt was aligned with the Deus philosophy.  Shaper Takuya 'Tappy' Yoshikawa and myself have been into snowboarding for a long time now and felt it would be great to offer this culture to the Deus identity.

Tappy's Designs

Tappy’s shapes are all original outlines and rocker shapes with a lot of his inspiration coming from the rocker profiles of fish surfboards. As a surfboard shaper of 20+ years and a snowboarder for just as long, Tappy has a great understanding of how his lines and curves should flow in the snow. Tappy is constantly playing around with new design ideas on board blanks he cuts into new unique shapes to try out on the slopes.


When Tappy was invited to Deus Bali to shape surfboards at their Canggu factory in 2013, he also brought a collection of hand shaped skateboard decks, which he hand-painted at the factory. Burton saw the collection of hand painted decks on the Deus Blog, contacted Tappy and asked him to collaborate on their Burton Family Tree collection.  Around the same time, not knowing of Tappy’s Burton project, I proposed the idea of creating Deus snowboards to him.  This was the beginning of Deus Powder Tools and how it all came together the same year. As we look ahead, we want Deus Powder Tools to have a global presence, to be enjoyed on mountain slopes all over the world. We want people to enjoy snowboarding as it was in the beginning, the concept of surfing on snow.

 

 
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