Fixed my board's really messes up tail quickly and color matched pretty closely! Jose was extremely responsive over text and call. Cannot recommend more! read more

HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND WORK: Brought my custom board in with damage, they said it would take 7-10 days to repair and that they be able to color match it, no problem. They had to replace the whole nose, definitely not a small job. The bottom is a solid pink color which is super easy to match, but the top has a pink floral pattern on it that's tough to match so I just said, "No problem, do the best you can." Jose (the owner) said if anything, they can do an all-pink color on the nose to coordinate with the board. He assured me a 7-10 day job, it took over 30 days to get the word that it was ready, and even then I had to call and show up a few times to ask when it was going to be done. Each time, I was treated like a nuisance. "When it's ready we'll call you!" If the board is taking longer than expected, why not just call me and let me know? That's all that was needed. I called again yesterday and they said, "umm yeah it's done". I had a feeling something was wrong by how long they took and how they wouldn't call me to let me know any updates. I immediately came to pick it up and not only was it NOT color matched in the least, they stuck some absolutely hideous army green paint on the nose of my all-pink board and expected me to cough up for the repair. Jose kept avoiding my eye contact like I wasn't going to notice that the pink board I brought in was now massacred with an army green nose? I asked him about the color match that he promised, and Jose rolled his eyes at me and made faces like, "are you seriously expecting me to to redo it?" I was very upset but didn't want to be rude, so I simply said, "You promised you could color match or get it close, which I'm fine with, but this is clearly some leftover crappy Sherwin Williams army green paint from another job that you thought you could pawn off on me." He waffled back and forth a while and said he'd "try his best to fix it" and I left. I took pictures of the board and sent it to a few surf buddies who all were shocked at how awful it looked. They'd never seen anything so bad. I'm still waiting back for the board. I would NOT recommend using this place at all. The customer service is horrible, you can't get word back on your repairs, and they treat you like a moron. A blind dog could have told them that army green wasn't going to match anything on the board. I seriously doubt they'd pull something this egregious on a male customer. read more

Barahona Surfboards - The nose had to be rebuilt. They assured me a color match. What part of this looks like a color match??? - Surf Shop Near Me - Hermosa Beach, California

Was recommended to Jose by a friend from Redondo Beach. I needed a new longboard and Jose made me a great board, a single fin 9'4". I love the board. He also fixed a ding I got quickly. Highly recommend. read more

Shaping happiness, one board at a time. So while on IG sometime in 2015, a follow suggestion popped up for @Jahmorgan and to truncate the story, I asked jahmorgan about where I can get my board repaired, and she suggested Jose, which was probably the most surf-life changing event in my life. The board repairs weren't the surf-life changing thing. It was when I was sick of having the egg shell board getting repaired all of the time and I asked Jose to shape a board for me. I told him my ability and where I wanted to be. so he suggested shaping a transition longboard with 40/60 rails and decent nose rocker so I would have something easy to practice on and not nose dive. He said once I was consistent on that board he could shape a traditional noserider. So everyday I paddled out I was thinking, "I can't wait to step on the deck of that noserider." The first ride on the board, although I had caught waves and popped up on it before, was at San Onofre, and it was the first time I really took the line and rode for a long time. It was amazing. It is like that saying you can't buy happiness but you can buy a surfboard and it is pretty close. That was the only good ride I got at Sano that day, since I was mostly wiping out or blowing my takeoffs. So flash forward a year when I was ready for the noserider. I contacted Jose and he was pretty busy so I gave him a date two months out where I said I want to pick up that board on Thursday and go down to Sano on Friday. He messaged me when he received the blank and messaged me when the blank was shaped so I could come in and discuss colour and graphics. If you have a clean image, it can be printed on rice paper, and that imaged can be glassed into the board since the rice paper goes clear under the resin. I recommend keeping it pretty simple. For colour I was inspired by maple syrup that was on a white plate. Jose said he could do that! So on the day that I was going to pick up my board, I saw Jose in the lineup at Hermosa Beach and he said my board was ready! Woot! How cool to ride with your shaper! The noserider, although the same length, width, and thickness as my learner board, had 50/50 round rails, a 19 1/2 inch nose and a wide tail. Oh yeah, a single fin box. Also it had less nose rocker. My first time in the line up was not at Sano since it was small there that weekend, so I took it out local to Torrance Beach. That first ride I had this board liked to stay in the pocket and I could have cross stepped to the nose but I was so in awe of how it slid across the wave I wanted to have that moment of the first ride. If you go with the basic options a custom barahona shape will cost you less what your would pay in a shop. Also a custom board is just that "custom" designed to how your ride and your size and shape. Remember support your local economy and buy a board from your local shaper rather than an Asian import! https://www.instagram.com/barahonashapes/ https://www.easyreadernews.com/notes-from-the-underground-2/ read more

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Jose does great work. And its fast and reasonably priced. Awesome.

Jose did an amazing job, very happy with his work repairing two of my boards. Very nice guy and very reasonable prices.

I've had 4 boards made by Jose Barahona. They are beautifully crafted and surf great. I've really enjoyed the whole process working with Jose to get awesome custom boards read more