Registered as a manufacturing operation since 2007, Ben Milano Surfboards in Point Loma hand-shapes custom boards from its Hancock Street workshop in the Midway District. The build catalog emphasizes fish-tail models with deep swallow tails and retro outlines, occupying a design lane shared by fellow shaper-direct operations like Delray Surf Designs elsewhere on the peninsula. Each board is shaped to the rider's weight, wave preference, and skill level, with no stock templates or overseas blanks in the production chain. Hancock Street's concentration of shaping bays creates a walk-in culture where surfers can watch foam get cut before committing to an order. Post-shaping ding repair and structural restoration for hand-shaped boards falls to specialists like The Lord of the Dings Surfboard Repair, which handles fiberglass and resin work calibrated to artisan construction rather than machine-popped pop-outs. Full-custom fish builds with hand-foiled keels and glass-on fin placement represent the shop's most intricate shaping work.