THE BARAHONAS

Barahona Surfboards began many years ago following mentorship from Phil Becker, who, churning out 11 boards a day in his longstanding career, has likely hand-shaped more surfboards than anyone in existence. Jose Barahona, along with Oscar and Jimmy Barahona, work together with great attention to detail on every surfboard that passes through their hands.

The Barahonas serve customers from Los Angeles to New York, take walk-in clients at their location in Hermosa Beach, and have the ability to ship internationally. They have worked in Hermosa Beach for a combined 85 years perfecting their craft in airbrushing, sanding, shaping, ding repair, and more.

HISTORY

38 years ago, Jose Barahona was guided into the surf world by mentoring hands of Hap Jacobs, Phil Becker, Jeff Stoner, and many other legends of shaping. Humbly beginning by sweeping shop floors, Jose moved from hand-sanding with Oscar Barahona to airbrushing, then to ding repair. Soon after, Jose shaped his first board with Becker and immediately knew what he would be doing for the rest of his years. He now shapes out of Becker's old room, where Phil made over 100,000 boards, with the same planar he was given by Jeff Stoner.

The Barahona family loves making surfboards and creating unique shapes that fit a customer’s personal style. Jose has shaped surfboards for Lance Carson, longboard icon featured in Endless Summer, as well as Laird Hamilton, and builds surfboards for many professionals. Though he is known for precision in traditional longboards, he excels at everything long to short; anything from a 1930s-style Kook Box to a speedy twin-fin. Whatever gets people in the water gets him stoked.