Removing deep scratches on my irons...

[GordonRamsay]

Question for knowledgeable folks.

 

On one or two occasions, I have hit a rock while extracting a ball from the rough.  It's noticeable on my 6 iron, as there is a deep gouge on the sole.  If I take a sanding disk to the club to eventually buff it out, am I at risk for screwing up the original sole grind on my club?  I though about filling the area with clear epoxy and then smoothing it out. 

[SavvySwede]

You can't buff out a "deep gouge". If you had some legitimate metal working skills you could weld on some new material and then grind it back to shape, but it wouldn't look good for long without being rechromed. Basically, more trouble than it's worth to fix.

[Valleygolfer]

Lend a blind eye to it. It just isn't worth fixing.

[Dave2512]

Doesn't bother me. 

[WUTiger]

A buffing wheel can remove the rough, snaggy edges. But as @SavvySwede noted, it's hard to fill in the inner gouge without great time and $$.

If you have a spot nick in a clubface, consider going to a jewelry shop. Jewelers have precision equipment for doing near microscopic work - one of the smoothed out  a face nick on a SW so it didn't scrape the ball on impact.