OBSF Board Repair has taken several forms in the decade-plus since Jon started his own business. First, he worked out of the back of Aqua Surf Shop on Judah Street. Then he set up shop at a friend’s house. When he outgrew that space, he moved into a shed-turned-workshop on a quiet street in the Outer Sunset.
As a well-wrought guitar ages, its wood changes on a cellular level, and the instrument’s sound becomes richer, more resonant. To attain and preserve that lucid tone, Alan Perlman – who has been making, repairing and restoring guitars for 50 years – prizes old wood.
That business was Maxwell Window Shades, a local fixture in the Sunset District founded by Andy’s grandparents James and Felicity Maxwell. The elder James Maxwell, a skilled painter who had helped paint the Golden Gate Bridge, first launched the family’s entrepreneurial journey by selling paint and making window shades on the side.
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