Club ‘Repair’

[Batchyyyyy]

So I want to buy these clubs from golfbidder. They claim the club head condition is 7/10. Lol. Is there a way I can tidy this up?

[colin007]

Cosmetically? I don't think so. You could prolly use one of those groove sharpeners but that would likely make them non-confirming if they were before.

[Piz]

You can polish club heads, and faces, with a Scotch-Brite pad; but the deeper scratches are there to stay.  The grooves look to be in good shape and, if the price is right, I wouldn't worry about it.  

[billchao]

1 hour ago, Batchyyyyy said:

So I want to buy these clubs from golfbidder. They claim the club head condition is 7/10. Lol. Is there a way I can tidy this up?

I’d call that 7/10. Purely cosmetic wear. It doesn’t look like the rest of the set looks like that, based on this picture.

[Batchyyyyy]

It’s like that on 3 of the 7 irons, I bet if I tried selling them irons like that they wouldn’t be classed as a 7 though lol! 

[billchao]

14 minutes ago, Batchyyyyy said:

It’s like that on 3 of the 7 irons, I bet if I tried selling them irons like that they wouldn’t be classed as a 7 though lol! 

7/10 is basically the lower limit of what I'd buy in terms of used irons, and those look good enough to me so they pass my test, FWIW.

[Darkfrog]

5 hours ago, Batchyyyyy said:

Is there a way I can tidy this up?

The wear looks cosmetic/superficial to me. There are club restoration companies that could probably make them look brand new but the cost per club is pretty expensive. I checked once when I was considering doing this to my old Ben Hogan irons and it was around $40 a head and that didn't include the cost of shipping to and from their workshop, regripping, reshafting, etc., so it would have been $360 for my eight club set, and then all the other costs I mentioned. I ended up just getting new clubs.

[Typhoon92]

A scotch brite and some “Bar keepers friend” should take care of the browning.  It is a hard sell when clubs look like that.

[Adam C]

From the picture, I would agree with a 7 out of 10 rating. Face wear on that club is pretty obvious but the grooves appear to be in good shape. Any club with good grooves and no big dings or dents I would put over a 6. The ferrules look a little scuffed and clouded, at least the one. You could fix that and get them looking new though.

At least from that picture it looks like a pretty good golfer owned them and took as good a care as can be expected of them.

[GolfLug]

1 hour ago, Typhoon92 said:

A scotch brite and some “Bar keepers friend” should take care of the browning.  It is a hard sell when clubs look like that.

Interesting. Is browning not actual wear, i.e, lost coating, bare metal? 

I was under the impression you can scotch brite out 'deposts' but not restore lost coating.

Genuinely curious because that would change my view if I were to purchase clubs with browning for sure. 

[Adam C]

It is the bare metal oxidizing. You can clean it up and get it looking more metally (not a word), but the color won't match perfectly. Also will need to keep it very clean and dry to keep it from darkening again.

[Typhoon92]

Right, you can’t “fix” it... what I mentioned will clean it up.  Won’t be a perfect match and you will have to stay on it.

[GolfLug]

18 hours ago, Adam C said:

It is the bare metal oxidizing. 

 

7 hours ago, Typhoon92 said:

Right, you can’t “fix” it... what I mentioned will clean it up.  

Ah, of course..... good old rust. Thanks both.