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Collect the boards
Local riders donate decks with real history: grip lines, pressure cracks, color, and scar tissue from the session.
Our Story
Daniel at the bench. A broken board nearby. The whole brand lives somewhere between those two things.
Rebirth World / Mapleton + North Shore
Origin
Broken boards. Old-world hands.
Rebirth is not a recycling slogan. It is Daniel Malzl's way of seeing material, memory, and change. His father's Austrian jewelry lineage gave him respect for craft. Skateboarding gave him the broken decks. Life gave him the reason to put those worlds together.
Every piece starts with the belief that something can be damaged without being done. A board snaps. The ride is over. Then the layers open up and a different story begins.
That is the Rebirth philosophy in its simplest form: Embrace Change.
Salzburg
Old-world jewelry was the first language in the room.
Daniel Malzl grew up around benches, torches, raw sheet metal, wire, and the quiet patience of fine jewelry. His father, Christoph Malzl, trained as an Austrian master jeweler at Koppenwallner's in Salzburg, a historic shop tied to jewels made for the Austrian emperor. That six-year apprenticeship taught fabrication by hand, not shortcuts.
Skate origin
The other classroom was concrete.
Daniel came at that lineage through skate culture. Broken decks stacked up after sessions because throwing them away never felt right. The seven dyed maple layers inside each board held color, impact, place, and memory.
North Shore
A snapped board became the first proof.
After years in Utah's skate and jewelry circles, Daniel's path carried him to the North Shore of Oahu, where surf, skate, family, and handwork overlap naturally. One broken deck became an experiment at the bench. Then a ring. Then a philosophy.
Process
Not manufactured. Carried through the hands.
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Cut into the color
The board is opened up so the seven maple layers become visible. The palette is already inside the material.
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Turn, shape, seal
Each ring is shaped by hand, sanded smooth, and sealed for everyday wear without erasing the board's story.
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Send it into a new life
What was headed for the trash becomes something personal enough to wear daily or meaningful enough for a wedding band.
Materials
Materials with a past.
Rebirth pieces do not try to hide where they came from. The color layers, wood grain, scuffs, and source stories are the point.
Recycled skateboard maple
Canadian maple, seven layers, donated by skaters after the board has lived its first life.
Ancient bog oak
Dark, time-rich wood preserved in peat for thousands of years, used in select wedding band liners.
Hawaiian koa
Warm figured wood connected to the islands and the North Shore chapter of the brand.
Steel and gold-plated shells
Structure for the premium band line: durable outside, wood warmth against the finger.
Impact
Small objects. Long memory.
1,000+
customers wearing Rebirth pieces
7
maple layers reborn in each skateboard ring
100%
handmade by Daniel, one at a time
1 yr
craftsmanship warranty
Daniel Malzl
One maker, a circle of riders, and pieces that still feel human.
Rebirth is Daniel's personal work: Austrian-American jewelry heritage, a skater's instinct to keep the good stuff from being wasted, and a philosophy shaped by faith, family, service, and the practice of starting again.
The wider team is the community around the bench: skaters who donate broken boards, people who wear the pieces through their own chapters, and collaborators who keep the brand close to real life instead of corporate polish.