"Re-Finishing" Putters at home

[whip_it_out]

I will be picking up an old, beat up Anser to see what i can do with it, just for fun.

How am I supposed to go about refinishing a putter by my self, as in a different finish, and taking out dings.

I read something about doing this, but it said carbon steel putters only. I want to know how to do it with Stainless Steel

[hkmp5]

You can sand stainless steel with regular sand paper I would recoomend 150 grit and work your way up to 220 the dings will come out provided there not to deep if they are you will have to have them heliarc welded (extreme case) I have fixed many studio stainless putter this way and after the fact most could not tell from factory

[cwcaesar]

Sounds like a fun project. Post some before and after pics.

[N.V.M.]

stainless steel is one of the easiest steels to work with. it's relatively soft and quite workable. my irons are stainless(Ping i5's) and i can make them look like new, which is why they have a high resale quality. unlike plated clubs which once the plating chips, wears off, they look like "crap".

i use a scouring pad(which i cut into smaller pc.s ),soaked in water first, and just use some elbow grease(thumb, actually!) and use the pad as if it were a piece of sandpaper. the pads are just aggressive enough to smooth out scratches.