skate board drama

The other day I let my friend borrow my skate board and he broke it. He wanted to use it to skate down newbig hill to his car. Right away I said “of cores you can use it.” We always use long boards to get to our cars. It is just easier. When he returns he informs me that the wheel fell off, he lost the nut and a huge chunk of the nose is missing. To make matters worse he can’t even buy me a new long board because I made this one. That’s right my friend crashed my home made skateboard. I started making boards a few years ago because I though the prices that were being charged were ridiculous, and since then I have gotten fairly good at the process. Instead of paying seventy dollars for the deck, I go to home depot and pay five dollars. I draw the shape I wish to have, used a jig saw to cut it out, and then use a bet sander to sand any mistakes. That process takes a few hours but is not even the hard part. After I am happy with my wood work I bring the unfinished skate board to my girl friend Lauren. She then paints on the bottom; this one was a picture of a sun set and waves. It is AWESOME! After she paints, I put a few coats of polyurethane and then grip tape on the top. The entire process takes about a week sometimes more. I don’t really like to make boards that often because I like them to be perfect and sometimes become very angry when I cant shape them the way I want. I will probably just keep this one, fix the wheel and ride it the way It is. I would make my life a lot easier. The moral of this story is a friend who breaks your home made long board is not a friend at all