ABS Club Repair and Retrofitting

Equipment Golf Club Repair (Vintage Gear)
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While we encourage “do it yourself’ers” with a wealth of instruction guides in the equipment forum, Mike Rees has offered to ABS-tisize existing sets and other related club work for those who prefer not to tread the waters of basement club repair.

Persimmon refinish, re-set sole plate,re-set insert, bored flat, reshafted, whipping, grip, new screws if necessary proper weighting /total ABS makeover existing club $170. (Your regrip or we will include a quality synthetic “Mint” grip)

Flattened and weighted only $120 with existing shaft or supplied shaft.

Flattened and weighted only new shaft new grip 140 TT X

Bend, flatten, loft and lie to spec/ remove offset $100 per (set 2-PW or SW)

Full iron makeover $350
reshaft, weight, loft lie, offset removal, grip (Mint) ferrule, pins extra $50 ($400)

$100 weights and grips… new Mints or saved if offset is not a factor.

$150 shafts only/ includes TT mint grips, ferrules, custom tipping and length

Other custom work may be accomodated. Email for details.

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Hi, my name is jared and i have a putter that i would like refinished. I was wondering if you would be able to do that and if you had the time. Thanks

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Looking to send some equipment in to be retrofitted. Are you still doing that here?

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yes… we are still doing this…

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Any club repair experts have any recommendations for removing this black spackling from these PC5s? Each one has a little bit on the chrome.

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Looks like the Chrome is pitted. Wouldn’t affect playability though…

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Far from an expert here but my first thought was using jewelers rouge and a buffing wheel to see what that produces and go from there.

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A three step process will bring these back to life

  1. soak club heads in white vinegar with some lemon juice

  2. scrub with steel wool and don’t use cheap steel wool

  3. polish and buff out on a buffing wheel

This should do the trick really good for you and make these irons pop again. Personally I can’t play beat up clubs it’s really distracting to me at address so I have used this technique above with great success.

Cheers

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I love this topic! so I’ll throw in my two cents…

Once the protective qualities of the chrome plating are compromised, pitting, there’s no way to remove them. Personally, I would resist the urge to “restore” vintage gear, and lean towards playing and “preserving”. In this case, getting the rust under your control. Remove the dirt with a brass wire brush and water, remove oils with naphtha, and the red oxide rust with steel wool. That should turn the red oxide to black oxide, which is manageable. Hopefully someone with more chemistry knowledge will step in and explain further. Also, resist the urge to use power tools in any way that removes metal. Like buffing with a compound that cuts. Removing metal, that you can’t put back, tends to be regrettable.

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