Brian Heritage?

I have a board shaped by him. He does a really good job on the glassing.

 

my guess is that you're not likely to get your money's worth. has nothing to do with whether heritage can shape a good board or not. has to do with the construction of firewire boards. to repair a board correctly, you need to reproduce the process made to construct that board. firewire uses some form of vacuum bagging and i doubt heritage has that set up. this site has excellent information on epoxy board repair: http://www.boardlady.com/index.htm but this guy's active: http://stickyfingerssurf.com/
you should contact him for the lowdown.

 

depending on how bad the buckle is and where it is on the board is going to determine a lot.

But most of the time when you buckle a board, even if you try to fix it, its like cancer, the boards just going to go down hill.

Buckling a board weakens it sooo much it's likely to break in surf with some power, or a surfer who can power surf.

 

My friend buckeled his firewire, and took it to Heritage in OC. I can't think of his name, maybe jessie? but he did a good job. I bet if you take it to heritage in sea isle he'll give it to that dude at the OC heritage.

 

I have no idea about Heritage, but having just done two repairs to firewires (one a major deck delam repair), i agree. They are SO hard to repair using regular methods (i.e. cut out the bad part, fill, reglass). The middle of a firewire is a no-mans land of porous core materials that jus wants to soak up resin, bubble off interior pressure and in general make the repair WAY more difficult than a reg board. For some reason it bugs me that these boards are made that are really prone to damage, and then you have to take it to a specialist to get an expensive repair done properly.

 

Yeah I would take to heritage in OC or sea isle, .Ask to talk to Jamie he can fix anything and his work is top notch.

PPL like Satanv shouldnt run there mouths off if they dont know who they are talking about just to plug someone else's site

 

You said it, brother. Aviso et. al. .... Bert's now doing his own thing, and the boards are way more durable... Sunova. Not indestructible, but at least twice as strong, but with all the flex you expect out of a parabolic. I can't say enough about his boards.

 

WTF are you talking about? minions? you have no clue of whom you speak. the guy who does ding repair of the 3 heritage shops (& the better part of south jersey surf shops in general) is the single best ding repair guy in the area. he can (& frequently does) repair firewires the way they are meant to be repaired. jamie has a vacuum pump & the whoe shebang ready yo go when needed.
but you're right in that brian has little or nothing to do w/ it. but jamie is in no way his "minion", toolbag.

 

My only question is what type of firewire are you talking about...FST, Direct Drive, rapidfire...??? that would make the difference of whether or not I send it to FW...or which shop I would decide upon. Also, does the crease go to the rail or compromise it in anyway?

A pic would be super helpful to evaluate it...

 

Exaclty . I have had repairs done by Jamie that he had to point out where they were cause I couldnt find them . Jamie can do it all from restoring vintage boards to Complex repairs he is the best board repair guy in NJ

 

Jamie has fixed quite a few of my boards and his work is undetectable unless you have some crazy color to match and even then its hard to find. If he can't fix it - its done.

 

he's a real cool guy. my friends board got skegged this year we took it to him and he fixed it right up. he's got a few guys in the shop that are older that do just as good work for him, so it's definatly worth the trip down. he can be an a$$ in the lineup if u don't respect him, but i guess that comes with his skill and the fact he owns a surf shop chain

 

heritage and all his "minions" are ****ing rock solid! the problem is once a board snaps in half its never the same. not only is the flow of the rocker kinked (which can be close to fixed) the flex in the spot of the fix isnt the same as the rest of the of the rocker. and as for heritage ding repairs...they are a goddamn good bet if this is the route you wanna go.

 

point of fact, brian only owns the sea isle shop. his sister, tracy, owns & run the ocean city one, & randy young runs the margate shop. they are each independently owned, but all have a direct connection back to dan heritage, who opened the sea isle shop back in the 60's as a place to sell the boards he was shaping.

 

as long as the balsa rail integrity was not compromised it's a no problem job. Strength is in the rail with those parabolics. However, crease looks quite deep...may have to cut some of that out and drop some foam in there...Bummer that it is so close to your front foot. Hopefully you won't have too many problems in the future. You do it while air dropping or on a floater?

In regards to shops, Heritage should be able to handle it as well as any other qualified shop...Using your pics, I'd contact someone on Satanv links above and ask their perspective on how to fix it (givne their in CA), post on Swaylocks.com as well...maybe even the firewire forum. Basically, I'd float it around to get an idea of how others (pros or bros) would fix it. This would allow you to get a little insight as well as be able to competantly talk with Jamie (or anyone else) about your options. Not all ding repair is quality ding repair...and being able to talk about it properly will only benefit you (for instance, understanding whether or not a vacuum pump would be necessary...does the foam need to be cut out or could it just be filled with q-cell...etc.). Realize you may get no response or even flamed a bit, but I think it would be worth it to know what you may be getting into with that type ding in that type of technology. My $.02...

Also, love that stealth outline...always wanted to try that particular firewire...you enjoying it?

 

Jaime is the man. Super mellow guy, really friendly, he'll definitely hook you up. Brian might be a little harder to get in touch with he's not always at the SIC shop and he bounces around between SIC, OC, and Margate a lot. The reason they probably recommended him is because he sells a lot of firewires, they're getting popular with the OC kids. When they first came out I remember Jaime doing a demo and jumping on the board deck down so you could see it flex to the floor without breaking because of the parabolic stringers. Pretty impressive.

If firewire is offering to fix it for free your shipping I'd seriously consider it. Brian's a great guy and he's 2nd gen (my dad's favorite board was shaped by his dad) so go get an estimate but I doubt you'd get off much cheaper to fix buckled epoxy and if it's serious enough to compromise the board's integrity you can't beat having your board fixed for free by the manufacturer even if it's more expensive to ship as long as it's reasonable. Depends on the turn around too of course...

 

By the way, I like jaime and the guys at heritage enough that after years of creeping I registered just to post that comment...his reputation earned my cherry post.