help please - club maintenance

[mancity101]

Happy New Year - belatedly
For xmas I got a lovely new shiny Taylormade 3wood, first chance to use it yesterday and totally out of character - skyed a huge nobbed shot off the toe on the top and have scratched the paintwork...any tips for removing the scratches please?

 

[USER1999]

If they don't go all the way through, you may be able to polish it out, but if the club has a lacquer over it, then no, it will make even more of a mess. If they go all the way through, no, it is ruined.

Unfortunatly that is what happens to golf clubs. I skied my 5w when I had a hang over, and that is the way it is.

The day you buy them is the best nick they will ever be in. After that it is down hill all the way.

 

[User20205]

I've got a 'super black' touch up pen. You can get them off ebay for a about a fiver. They are used for guns apparently.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BIRCHWOO-CASEY-SUP...=item2eaa38ac5c

its waterproof etc and does a pretty good job on small areas, the only problem being is that its matt black so the finish isn't perfect.

 

[viscount17]

a liquid scratch remover for metallic or pearlescent finishes and a very soft cloth might work if the scratch is not so deep that you can feel it with a fingernail.

avoid the pastes or standard T-Cut etc, they're much too aggressive.

 

[kid2]

Happy New Year - belatedly
For xmas I got a lovely new shiny Taylormade 3wood, first chance to use it yesterday and totally out of character - skyed a huge nobbed shot off the toe on the top and have scratched the paintwork...any tips for removing the scratches please?

Hey there Mancity all is not completely lost....
..Im a panel beater and its happened me a few time with my driver....Thetrick is that if your finger nail gets trapped in it as you scrape it then you've gone through laquer and paint in which case you have 2 options.
1. Lightly fill the scuff with roughly the same colour paint that is in the head(you could get this off your other half if she regularly paints her nails dont worry if you smudge it as you can remove the excess with nail polish remover)
2.Leave this to
dry and then get a loan of a bottle of clear nail varnish from her dab
this on and leave to dry......Get down to your local car accessory shop and pick up some 2000 grit sand paper and some scratch remover polish(compound)
3. Once the clear polish has dried wet the sandpaper with water and gently sand the new polish that you have touched up the club with until your happy that it has blended in with the surrounding laquer on the club head.
MAKE SURE YOU KEEP THE SANDPAPER WET.......
4.After you have this done polish the dull area with the scratch remover and then use some car wax to refinish the lot..... It wont be completely invisible but it should stop you focusing on it at address.....

If you want a proper job done on it then get down to your local crash repair centre and im sure one of the lads would do it as a tom job during there lunch hour.
They might only charge 20 or 30 pounds...
Oh and i forgot if its across the alignment mark you may loose this unless its engraved into the club head......
Sorry if the post is drawn out....