Sharpening Grooves

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Someone take a dremel to a wedge head and post up the pics of the aftermath please!!!

I'm giving it serious thought but I've made a little progress with the sharpener. They aren't as deep as the normal grooves but at least it isn't smooth. If it doesn't work at least the Jaws wedges were cheap.

 

[TrickyPutt]

I'm giving it serious thought but I've made a little progress with the sharpener. They aren't as deep as the normal grooves but at least it isn't smooth. If it doesn't work at least the Jaws wedges were cheap.

My tool has two shapes, a v groove and a square shape. The v would cut a nice start line and the you could square it up

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

My tool has two shapes, a v groove and a square shape. The v would cut a nice start line and the you could square it up

That's what I did as well. We'll see how it turns out.

 

[anonymous golfaholic]

If we heated with that in VT we'd either burn the house down or have an astronomical bill. Neither is a good solution.

My grandma has one. She has a gas furnace with central heat too but she had this put in so she wouldn't have to heat the whole house as warm as she likes it in her living room. It's surprisingly effective(if you stepped foot in her living room, you wouldn't argue, lol) and it has lowered her heating costs. It's not unlike a gas log really...other than it's ugly as hell.

 

[TEA Time]

Machinist hat: ON

Yeah an end mill bit thats wide enough would be the thing.

A groove is about 1/32" wide. Now, they do make end mills that small but they are more brittle than a toothpick. And that's when they're chucked into an actual high-precision milling machine. You could try it, but I guarantee one of two things: you'll constantly break the bit, or you'll constantly break the bit.

The only way I'd ever try to re-cut grooves, is if I had a vertical mill with an arbor saw and some kind of special chuck built just for golf clubs. You'd have to index the face of the club in with a dial indicator first, so that one side of the groove isn't deeper than the other.

Something like this:

 

[ChrisLyons]

I think golfsmith used to sell a groove sharpening bit for a dremel tool. It came in v and square groove. Maybe check into that.

 

[ChrisLyons]

It's cool to have a matched set but I really prefer a more traditional sand and lob wedge.

 

[TEA Time]

Dremel. Do it.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

It's cool to have a matched set but I really prefer a more traditional sand and lob wedge.

That's why I used the ebay bucks on the Jaws Wedges, this is an experiment at this point.

 

[eclark53520]

Machinist hat: ON


A groove is about 1/32" wide. Now, they do make end mills that small but they are more brittle than a toothpick. And that's when they're chucked into an actual high-precision milling machine. You could try it, but I guarantee one of two things: you'll constantly break the bit, or you'll constantly break the bit.

The only way I'd ever try to re-cut grooves, is if I had a vertical mill with an arbor saw and some kind of special chuck built just for golf clubs. You'd have to index the face of the club in with a dial indicator first, so that one side of the groove isn't deeper than the other.

I don't think one side being deeper than the other would make a difference in this case...but I know how you machinists are.

 

[TrickyPutt]

Well how about a router bit? I cant believe they dont make a bearing bit like those flush cut bits that does a little groove.

I ran around with a mic in my shop. The cleveland irons were the biggest grooves, .02". I saw as small as .016"

Hats off to the machinist! Guess how wide .02" is?

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Well how about a router bit? I cant believe they dont make a bearing bit like those flush cut bits that does a little groove.

I ran around with a mic in my shop. The cleveland irons were the biggest grooves, .02". I saw as small as .016"

Hats off to the machinist! Guess how wide .02" is?

Just a hair under .021"

 

[eclark53520]

Well....1/2 is .5, 1/4 is .25, 1/8 is .125, 1/16 is .0625, 1/32 is .03125, 1/64 is .015625

So somewhere between a 32nd and a 64th...

EDIT: I knew through 1/16 in my head...I gave up and used a calculator on the other two...dividing decimals isn't my thing.

 

[eclark53520]

1/50th exactly...

EDIT: I'm very sad how long that eluded me...apparently i need to brush up on my math skillz...


FYI - .1 = 1/10, .2 = 2/10 or 1/5....extrapolate that .02 = 2/100 or 1/50

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[Fairwaysplitter3320]

I might do this, just because its easier:

Iron Regrooving Service - The GolfWorks