WILMINGTON -- He's only 23-years-old, but for the last decade he's been carving out a career designing surfboards. Now Adam Warden and his business partners are about to change the way surfboards in Wilmington are made. It's not exactly the kind of place that stirs images of riding big waves. But in the dusty shop in an industrial park near the Wilmington airport the start of many endless summers is taking shape. It's there that the guys at Wrightsville Glass build custom surfboards from the ground up. Warden said, "We'll customize it to your weight, to your size, also to what size waves you you're going to be riding." For Adam Warden, Wrightsville Glass is one of many board shops from coast to coast where he plies his craft as a board shaper. "It's a love, a passion type of deal. You put a lot of time and a lot of effort in to it." At just 23 Warden has already put 10 years into building his company AJW Surfboards. "I pretty much just started in my backyard for fun to see if I could do it," Warden said. Turns out, he can. He and his business partners do it all: from shaving the foam blanks to the shape you want to painting it with your designs of choice and all the other things it takes to help you hang ten. And soon, Wrightsville Glass will be able to customize your board with more precision than ever before, thanks to a shaping machine used by some of the top board makers around the pacific. "There's none in North Carolina. There's probably three, maybe four machines on the entire east coast," Warden said. That means that even when Warden is working this fall in California or in Hawaii this winter, you can get one of his custom designs right here on the Carolina Coast. "I can design my program, design it over the internet, e-mail it to these guys. They can have the machine cut it out, and have one of the guys who works here finish it off, and it's still pretty much my design." The new technology helps Warden expand his business as he travels the world seeking the best waves. Warden says whether the boards are shaped by hand or by machine the whole process still takes two to four weeks. If you'd like more information on his custom boards, visit www.ajwsurfboard.com/ajw.