When Bennett Surfboards got a call from the prime minister's office they thought it may have been a hoax.
The request was to make a surfboard to be presented as a gift to US President Barack Obama.
"It was a tall order," Sydney board manufacturer Greg Bennett told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Tony Abbott will present the board - fashioned in the colours of Air Force One and bearing the Presidential seal - when he meets with Mr Obama at the White House on Thursday.
Mr Bennett was also commissioned by Manly Council to build a board presented to Prince George in April.
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On her visit in 2011, former prime minister Julia Gillard gave Mr Obama a Sherrin Australian Rules football which they were photographed kicking around the Oval Office.
She also presented him with iPods featuring Australian music.
