moogie
Tour Winner
Whooooooosh......
I bought today.....
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Whooooooosh......
Orikoru
Tour Winner
azazel
Assistant Pro
A Callaway Paradym triple diamond, 9.5 degrees of loft with a stiff Kaili white shaft. Brand new. £340 delivered.
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Ps Plus subscription and a George Foreman portable bbq, strange combination i must say 
mikejohnchapman
Challenge Tour Pro
Some Ecco shoes from Evolution Golf with their Black Friday 20% off deal.
DoubleD
New member
A Scotty Cameron Super Select Newport 2 + with 10% off. Finally scratched the itch and it is just beautiful. Happy man.
Crow
Crow Person
Recently picked up a couple of sets of coated shaft Tom Stewart stamped irons.
The Frank Jowle has a fanned line face and the Henry Cotton a punch dot face.
Non parallel lines are illegal and I suspect that some of the punch dot marks are too deep so both of these are illegal for competition play, although I could quite legally use a modern iron with a hot face, loads of perimeter weighting and a high tech shaft.
Luckily I don't care and will happily play either in club competitions.
- Frank Jowle Owen Model (third in The Open in 1955)
- Spalding, Henry Cotton (Spalding acquired T. Stewart at some date I'm unsure of)
The Frank Jowle has a fanned line face and the Henry Cotton a punch dot face.
Non parallel lines are illegal and I suspect that some of the punch dot marks are too deep so both of these are illegal for competition play, although I could quite legally use a modern iron with a hot face, loads of perimeter weighting and a high tech shaft.
Luckily I don't care and will happily play either in club competitions.
What is the theory behind the punch dots on the club?
Was this common on older clubs?
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
Yes, very common.
Not sure about the theory - might have had something to do with the fact that the balls were quite different over 100 years ago.
Not sure about the theory - might have had something to do with the fact that the balls were quite different over 100 years ago.
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
I've got a Tom Stewart putter that you can have to go with them.
Vintage Golf
I've bought a job lot of 8 putters today. I'm familiar with a Spalding Cash-In and that was what caught my eye at first. Can you give a bit more info from your "club-knowledge" brain about a few of the others. Wilson shotgun, Dunlop Peter Thomson (very thin sole), Letters banker and a right...
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clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
I would say it was just easier to do.
Getting groves into the steel would be quite difficult at the time .
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Are you seeing anyone for this addiction?
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
Yes.
I'm "seeing" people who sell stuff on ebay.
Did you read the last few lines about some stuff I've sold.
I don't like to brag (OK, I'm lying) but the profits have been considerable at multiples of 100% at times.
I'm addicted to making a collection of sets of clubs from the 1960s and 1970s at nett zero cost.
Very enjoyable hobby it is too.
Over the last 18 months I've made 16 separate ebay sales and sold some to mates at what I paid.
Over the winter I'm intending to sell some more sets of irons and woods.
Hoping to end up with 15 full sets plus a few more extra woods, wedges and putters at overall better-than-zero cost.
How much have you spent on golf clubs over the last 3 years?
Are you seeing anyone about this?
Crow
Crow Person
The first irons were smooth faced, then various means of indenting were tried with punch dots by far the commonest as they were the easiest (as Clubchamp says)
Various other types of punch were used, squares, very short lines, etc so I guess someone decided to join the lines up.
The difficulty in the early days was getting the lines looking good, until they started to do them all together using a die pressed into the face.
Punch dots are still legal but must follow the dimensions given in the rules governing conformance of clubs.
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
One of my first clubs was a mashie with a face very similar to this.
Klimski
Active member
Today I bought (actually it arrived today from Scotland) a Callaway 454 Driver high launch (probably 15 degrees - advertised as 13). Pretty much good as new, very beautiful club. I have always struggled with driver, tried all kinds of options. I always hit 3 wood off the tee pretty well, but it's an unforgiving option. So an almost 460cc 3 wood sounds like a good choice. We'll see!
Crow
Crow Person
That looks like it's been pressed in with a die, either that or someone very patient and skilled with punches has done it!
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Finally found some replacement runners for my skates that don’t cost more than new skates. Not to see if they arrive from Finland
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Ploughed all my profits for the year into a flatbed CNC router. Had a small one for a year but think I can do much more with a full size doozy.
Feel a bit sick when I look at the invoice though
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Feel a bit sick when I look at the invoice though
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Crow
Crow Person
When I was in engineering anything CNC was Megabucks so I can imagine.Ploughed all my profits for the year into a flatbed CNC router. Had a small one for a year but think I can do much more with a full size doozy.
Feel a bit sick when I look at the invoice though
