Old surfboards never die – nor do they fade away.
And that bothers Matt Hasson, a recently retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who is doing something to address that matter through his new Ahwatukee home-based business, Revibed Creations.
He turns them into wall hangings – preserving the story behind boards and doing his part to preserve the planet.
The business grew out of a hobby that he developed shortly after a visit in December 2016 to San Diego – a frequent haunt for Hasson and his two daughters, particularly 14-year-old Emma.
“I was looking for a surfboard for her and was in a shop and saw the guy had some old banged-up surfboards in a shed, and I asked him what he was going to do with them. He said he would probably throw them in the trash,” Hasson said. “So, I bought three or four of them and took them home.”
In January 2017, he retired from the Air Force and decided he would see if he could make something for the house out of one of the boards.
It wasn’t easy – especially because he decided to turn it into a fish replica of sorts.
He began drawing a pattern – he makes lots of drawings to perfect his pattern before he makes a single cut.
He follows that old seamstress motto of “measure twice, cut once” because the board, though durable, can easily be shattered by the wrong cut in the wrong place.
“If you cut it wrong it loses its integrity and falls apart,” he said.
Besides, he’s doing something he has never done before.
“Drawing out a design takes a lot of time,” he said.
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