Clay Carson Board Repair
March 15th, 2010 by evan 
On the referral of Jeff Chang at Wet Feet and Robert Stehlik at Blue Planet Surf I took in my board for a small repair to Clay Carson. He specialized in fixing carbon boards, canoes, etc and has a reputation of being the best. If you need a fix, call him at 808-225-2263 and let him know I sent you.
My F-18 had a few small pin hole leaks in the tail and instead of doing an ugly job to fix it, I just took it to Clay to do it right. Unless you look close, you can’t tell it was reinforced.
Clay does good work. When I first talked to Clay I didn’t know he does all warranty work for Joe Bark that was something really good to hear after dropping my Bark on my concrete slab.
I hate to make negative comments but I feel I need to for this one. Be careful in your dealings with Clay Carson. I had a bad experience with him where he did not stand behind his work. Hopefully, he has changed his ways but that was my experience.
I don’t understand Diesel’s statement that clay does not stand behind his work. I have known Clay since I was about 14 which is 35 years. He is a fair guy and does good work and would not be doing Joe Barks warranty work if he was a shady guy or did Junk work. I can say that after just dropping off my Naish 14 glide , which took another boards Fin into the bottom, that he does awesome work. From the looks of his shop he is also super busy. When I went to pick up my Naish 14 there was another Naish 14 that had just come in and clay said it was Herbie Titcombs. Clay has a good reputation and I hope whatever happened was a misunderstanding.
So far I’ve had Clay do 2 small repairs in the past couple months and it was just as expected.
I was given a old oc1 Honu that needed the top half re-glassed. A friend recommended Clay Carson. At the time he was so backed up with repairs that I didn’t get my canoe back until about a month later but it was worth the wait. Clay did a excellent job with the repair and new paint job. Word of mouth goes a long way.