#980: Surfboard Shaper Boards New Wave
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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When longboard surfboards went out of style in the 1970s, thousands of them were selling at just $10 apiece. This aspiring ‘shaper’ knew it was a wave he had to catch a ride on.
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| 0:00.0 | May 2023 Spanish Paper 1. When each question is about to start, students will hear a beep. |
| 0:09.0 | For some, this will be all they hear, as panic sets in. So tonight, when you sit down together, |
| 0:18.0 | before you ask about La Historia or La Musica, ask them how they're doing. |
| 0:24.0 | A proper chant can ease exam stress. Britain get talking, ITV. |
| 0:39.0 | Today we'll talk about repurposing. Has it applies to the world of reselling, side hustling, and so on? |
| 0:45.0 | When longboard surfboards went out of style in the 1970s, thousands of them were selling at just $10 a piece. |
| 0:52.0 | In the suspiring surfboard shaper, New It was a wave he had to catch a ride on. |
| 0:56.0 | The story here reminds me a little of the headlight and tail light reselling hustle. |
| 1:00.0 | A very popular story from a couple months ago, that was episode number 825, digging for profits, one man's trash, and another man's hustle. |
| 1:08.0 | In that story, the guy found a way to acquire something for free. Specifically, headlights and tail lights, his auto body shop was throwing away, |
| 1:15.0 | and then resell them for a lot of money, sometimes hundreds of dollars a piece. |
| 1:19.0 | Now in today's story, which spans four decades, the surfer slash repurposer now works as a middle school science teacher. |
| 1:26.0 | But he continues to build between 30 and 50 surfboards a year, and prices that go up to $900. |
| 1:31.0 | Is there something you might be able to acquire and repurpose? |
| 1:35.0 | Welcome to Side Usal School. My name is Chris Guilabo. Surfboard shaper, boards, new wave is coming up right after this quick shout out to our sponsor. |
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| 2:34.0 | As a kid, Luke Avalor is loved surfing, with his favorite summer pastime, but the passion never quite felt complete. |
| 3:00.0 | You see, he had a dream of shaping his own boards. Shaping is essentially creating your own surfboard from stock plywood, applying your own design and adding subtle curves and groups. |
| 3:09.0 | But it was a hobby that required money, because boards weren't cheap. Those boards did, however, break and wear down. |
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