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Ever scuff the shine off your grips?

DirtCheap

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I was looking at my grips this morning and noticing that they're starting to wear slick and shiny
I was thinking about taking a scotch brite pad and scuffing the shine off of them in an effort to get a bit more grip.

Has anyone ever tried this?




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ApocG10 Great Member

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Can't honestly say I have. I usually regrip every 35-40 rounds (not an arbitrary number, just seems to be when most of the grips I tried start to get slick and move in my hands. Of course I dont regrip all clubs, some are used far less than others. But I always keep spare grips for when a club or two needs to be done.

But no, I have never tried scuffing the grips to help. Why not try it if its just to get them to last a week or so till you can regrip. But I doubt its a substitute for new grips.

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Originally Posted by DirtCheap

I was looking at my grips this morning and noticing that they're starting to wear slick and shiny

I was thinking about taking a scotch brite pad and scuffing the shine off of them in an effort to get a bit more grip.

Has anyone ever tried this?

Freddie Couples uses sandpaper. I'd certainly try it, but my grips are all full cord so by the time they're slick somewhere, they're done.

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rwfastrax Well Established Member

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Yes, and it works well. By the time I get to that point with a set of grips (they really need changing)... sand paper will get you a few more rounds out of them.


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Grips like Golf Pride Tour Velvets are vulcanized, so during manufacture they are buffed to remove the hard shiny surface layer before packaging.  Any vulcanized grip will get hard and shiny in time, but a scuff with sandpaper or a Scotchbright pad will take most of that away.  If any of you are SCUBA divers, think of a dry suit.  Pure rubber grips like PURE won't have that problem though.


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I'm an old school printer repair guy. I started out on the IBM Selectric typewriter before moving to printers. The old dot matrix, or as we called them "impact" printers used to have a hard rubber roller that backed up the paper as the print head beat the snot out of it putting dots down. After so many tens of thousands of prints, the paper would sort of polish that roller until it was shiny and it wouldn't be able to grip the paper anymore. We used to scotch brite those and it worked beautifully.
In a pinch, I've even scotch brite'd my windshield wiper blades. (They don't call me DirtCheap for nuthin')

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