Rust

[Papa Steve 55]

I saw this sentence in an ad for clubs at Global Golf. Really? I know WD40 and fine emery cloth will remove rust but.....Really?

 

NOTE: Some irons are designed to rust over time. This is not considered adverse wear.

[iacas]

Some people mistakenly believe rust adds spin.

[Ernest Jones]

36 minutes ago, Papa Steve 55 said:

I saw this sentence in an ad for clubs at Global Golf. Really? I know WD40 and fine emery cloth will remove rust but.....Really?

 

NOTE: Some irons are designed to rust over time. This is not considered adverse wear.

What sentence?

[woodzie264]

3 minutes ago, Ernest Jones said:

What sentence?

"NOTE: Some irons are designed to rust over time. This is not considered adverse wear."

16 minutes ago, iacas said:

Some people mistakenly believe rust adds spin.

Admittedly, I had been told that and never really questioned it. It made sense that it might somehow add friction to the clubface giving it more spin. By your response, I assume you know that to be false.

[iacas]

1 hour ago, woodzie264 said:

Admittedly, I had been told that and never really questioned it. It made sense that it might somehow add friction to the clubface giving it more spin. By your response, I assume you know that to be false.

Rust:

• wears away the edges of the grooves
• clogs grooves
• is like a fine powder
• wears away after one swing anyway

https://thesandtrap.com/b/bag_drop/is_rust_a_must

[Jack Watson]

I don't like rust.  If anything for appearance I prefer chrome.

 

[Vinsk]

1 minute ago, Jack Watson said:

I don't like rust.  If anything for appearance I prefer chrome.

 

I think some just liked that the rusty surface reduced the glare especially with chrome.

[Jack Watson]

18 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

hink some just liked that the rusty surface reduced the glare especially with chrome.

Good call.  I play satin shovels anymore so...

My favorite look is a nice chrome blade.  Or a nicely finished persimmon.

[Vinsk]

Persimmon ....such a beauty. Actually the first driver I ever hit (think it was a Northwestern) I remember my dad saying, " Son you won't get to hit a finer wood than this for a long time." Learned to play with NW Thunderbird irons...criminey ....today the 2 iron looks like a domino tile tide to a stick!

[Ernest Jones]

2 hours ago, woodzie264 said:

"NOTE: Some irons are designed to rust over time. This is not considered adverse wear."

Admittedly, I had been told that and never really questioned it. It made sense that it might somehow add friction to the clubface giving it more spin. By your response, I assume you know that to be false.

Thanks. It wasn't evident to me that that (**** I hate it when a sentence forces me to say 'that that' lol) was the sentence in question. 

[onthehunt526]

WD-40 and an emory cloth does work... As does a solution of baking soda and vinegar with a fine stiff bristled brush.

Some materials such as carbon steel of any composition will rust. It just adds to the patina of the club in my opinion.

[Buckeyebowman]

22 hours ago, Vinsk said:

Persimmon ....such a beauty. Actually the first driver I ever hit (think it was a Northwestern) I remember my dad saying, " Son you won't get to hit a finer wood than this for a long time." Learned to play with NW Thunderbird irons...criminey ....today the 2 iron looks like a domino tile tide to a stick!

I actually had a set of Persimmon woods built for me back in the day! As for learning, in my youth I had a set of Sam Snead "Blue Ridge" clubs from some department store. I think the irons were swingweighted at about D-30!

[Typhoon92]

Love satin.  I used Naval Jelly to strip my old Callaway x forged wedges down go a satin finish.  Rust...what's the point.

 

"Rust Never Sleeps"...Neil Young

[DaveP043]

I like the look of the Vokey wedges with the "oil can" finish.  These can actually rust a tiny bit if they get put away wet, but the rust wears off after just a couple of swings.  

On 7/27/2017 at 9:17 PM, Buckeyebowman said:

I actually had a set of Persimmon woods built for me back in the day! As for learning, in my youth I had a set of Sam Snead "Blue Ridge" clubs from some department store. I think the irons were swingweighted at about D-30!

I think I had the same clubs, the Sam Snead Blue Ridge.  I graduated to a set of Golden Ram irons at about the time Tom Watson was playing Ram, and got some Titleist woods (laminated) during my first summer home from college.  None of those were meant to rust.