Awhile back, a great customer/friend called to request my services to help him and a buddy out of a tight jam. When Mick told me that they borrowed a board and "kind-of destroyed it" I said "Sure we can handle that". He was lookin for a replication of a competitors piece of equipment. Normally I would offer to do the job and upgrade the board, but Mick and Co. were a bit nervous regarding the potential outcome. What they didn't say was that the board was virtually BRAND-NEW! That is if you consider a new board to have more dings and rips than an old log lost at high tide Dolphin Tanks with a ten foot Norther raging six foot white water on the boulders. The foam color was perfect though. I don't know how they managed to tear up this gorgeous stick, but indeed they pulled it off. The new replacement is very close to the original sans the nice blue tint [which is hard to color-match on repair] I was told that the owner doesn't surf much and probably wouldn't care too much about the color change. Right then it hit me; these guys might try to borrow the new one for a test-ride and if for any dings, they could probably fix it and the poor owner would never know! Wow, I'd have thought that they would have learned their lesson, but surfers love the challenge. My message on the stringer is to the new owner simply put "RIDE ME".... that doesn't mean everybody! Dennis out for now.
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