GOLF CLUB REFURBISHING IS GOING TO GET A LOT QUICKER... (Results) 

Can’t believe u sanded the face! Only needed cleaning with a bit of wire wool.

Really like the series mukka. From my experience when buffing / refurbishing surfaces, the larger the mop / grinding surface area the better. I know alot of people have said Dremel but its too small to get a consistent professional finish. A Bench grinder with polishing mops (£60 all in) would give a professional mirror finish and remove those marks no probs. Autosol GV0400 polish is a must too.

Thanks for watching guys! So close to 40k!! Have a good week everyone.... golf next week 😬

Great video. Also use a groove sharpener. For those in the US, harbour freight tools has this tool for about 10 dollars. Really great tool to have for golf cleaning and building

For mild cleaning/polishing try Sovol Autosol polish, I have found it brings up a good level of finish on all kinds of metal and removes rust

I like using small sharpening stones to clean up the face of clubs because they help sharpen to grooves back up without making them non- conforming and the club face stays flat.

As a professional polisher, I'd recommend getting a polishing jack. Just use a 12 inch grinder, with some Divine Brothers buffs and compounds. NEVER use a dremel on anything bigger than the size of the buff that's on it.

We're giving them support for Mary and the baby not you 😂😂😂. We love your channel and how brutally honest you are. Even though you single handily drove 2nd hand clubs prices up😉😂

Went a bought a cheap anser putter last week after watching some of your vids.. did it up with a new grip and looks amazing.. definitely will be looking at doing more of this for myself in future..if not for my bag then to sell on🙌🏼loving the content Simon 👍🏻

I got a Oilcan Titleist Wedge from Market place for $5, it was very rusty, I used my drill with a wire wheel and some steel wool, I liked it so much I end up cleaning all my irons 😂

try using a abrasive powder like bar keeps friend. sanding works but I try to us hand sanding 150 and work up to 400 grit. there is almost rust converter that gives a rather unique finish.

Hi Simon, I always used modelling paint for my infills, Games Workshop type thing. Works out cheaper than the kits you can now buy 🤭

Love your honesty regarding club repair. I had to re sit my club repair exam at Lilleshall as it's the least favourite element of Pro life. Btw is that a set of Ben Hogans I see in the background 😉

Great video! Been refurbishing Scotty's lately and was going to upgrade my Dremmel. Also, a note for golfers: Rust doesn't add spin, just reduces glare/gives a finish some prefer.

I bought a set of Mack Daddy raw finish that were full of rust. Put the Dremel away and dip them 1 hour in tomato sauce. Trust me👍

Simon, think you could use some sort of vice,( even a d.I.y. Work table the kind that folds flat) something that would hold the club in place for you, so you have both hands to steady the dreamil.

Get yourself a bench grinder and some cutting wheels and use them for final touches and smoothing out your scratches. It will take away all the sanding marks . Also go up to like 600 on the Dremel and it will be easier to buff it all out . The grinder will give you more control and will.leave it looking flawless. I use a Dremel to take down all the chips and scratches and use the grinder to finish it off and I get flawless looking results .

Hi Simon, great videos again mate. P personally on your refurbishing purchases, I think the drill bits are too small, I brought some sponge pads, and cleaners for my drill that were about 3 inches wide, so you can get a more even finish. Plus I would use wet and dry sand paper and do it stages of roughness going down to the smoothest. Also used Tcut car polish and car wax to finish it off. If you want photos let me know. 👍

When your arm finally gets tired, I suggest investing in a bench grinder, remove the stone wheels and add soft wire wheel and a polishing wheel with polishing wax. This tool should be used exclusively in the garage-with eye protection and a mask, but the speed and control will amaze you. Just start off slowly like the Dremel.

Simon you don’t always need paint on dark finish drivers. Turtle wax do a car scratch repair kit with lacquer pen and polishing pads used before works well !

Simon get the GC out and see how a club performs pre and post restoration

Who doesn't love a good touch up? 😉🤣

I thought the rust was supposed to be there? I have two of these old Cleveland tour action wedges and leave them rusty on purpose

Very nice job, I scratched my M2 driver and rbz stage 2 fairway used white out and have fine polishing rag white out filled in the scratches beautifully looks good to me. Inexpensive fix.

I have polished up my old irons with metal polish and my old woods with light abrasive wax paste - improves them a lot but go easy as sometimes less intensive refurb is best ! Good luck - keep those old clubs in action !

Auto touch up paint, I've used a few and they've work well, I like to kind of make the clubs my own, I restored my grandfathers Ping Eye irons and used a candy red for the fill and they look amazing in the sunlight

Simon I too have recently bought a Dremel for this very reason. I worked on two older Cleveland wedges, similar to yours and came up with the same result. I am currently working on an old set of irons...🤷🏼‍♂️

Autosol on a small polishing wheel will brig it up lovely 👍🏻

Simon I recently used a dremel with the thinnest cutting disk to clean and sharpen and deepen the grooves on an old wedge to see what difference it made Try it yourself lol but make sure you have plenty of old balls ha ha

Woops...... Great vid as always Simon 👌🏼

The Dremel was a smart purchase. Now get some "rouge" and polishing compound and a buffing wheel to take out the micro scratches and the wedge will look like new.

Simon. Great job. Your trial and error will save us time and money. Keep grinding.

Looks good 👍 I had a go at it on a tm ghost putter. I removed all the paint, then tried the dremel polishing attachment with a car paint cutting compound and it came up like a mirror.

Thanks for posting it took 20 years for me to rust up my 588's to perfection. I may try this on the other side of the club and leave the face alone. However if not for your video I would have not seen "10 Things Men Wear That Women HATE " which is a much watch also.

Simon, try using the old school typewriter "White Out" for filling in the letter engravings. I've been using it to refinish engravings on guns for years. Cheap, comes in a small bottle with a brush and dries FAST. Simply brush it into the engraved grooves and wipe overall with a damp cloth. You're welcome.

Your content is so different to others and refreshing to watch

You can paint them with regular nail polish. Get the pricier ones. I have heard ORLY works well.

Not only a big time saver, but a hand saver as well because all the stuff sanded and scrubbed by hand surely tires them out.

silicon carbide sand paper is necessary for the finish, also get some metal polish. dremel is really hard to use when working with flat surface.

Results look fair tbh, I've got similiar. From what I can gather the only way of improving the finish is buying a 4-6 inch buffing wheel and using proper compounds

My Dremel arrived the same day as yours! Very timely content!! Many thanks

Yup. If you're a beginner, don't use a sanding bit on the face. Those things take a lot of material off

Great content Simon, fab to see new ideas do constantly...tried using coke overnight and it worked just like you showed!

Great decision! I love my Dremel for club repairs.

I ve only been watching your videos for a short time but love them

Great video Simon delighted to see you got the Dremel I can’t wait to see how the Scotty turns out now! Also, I think i see a set of Ben Hogan’s in the background looking at the Hosels they’re the same as the ones I bought 2 weeks ago! Hope I managed a better deal that SAS Golf 😬😬

This is the club I wanted to buy off you haha!

Love the learning process and tips. That Cleveland ended up looking like it went through a hail storm! Patience appears to be key before hitting it with lower grits.

Roll on next Wednesday finally get to hit the speedzone 😁

I bought some gpaint off ebay to paint the white line on my pings. They look good. I double lined my titleist wedges too and filled numbers in also

Great video mate, if i was to recommend anything it would be to get some ‘jewlers rouge’ on the buffing pad to really make it shine. And without sounding like mr ppe be sure to mask up and use eye protection 👍🏼😊 Keep the videos coming!

Simon have you thought about using nail varnish to paint the lettering , its acrylic and it pretty tough. Give it a go you'll be impressed Great vid by the the way

Did the exact same thing with my 60 deg Mack Daddy 2, ah lockdown boredom, but did not clean the face up as the rust adds more zip!

Nice film again Simon!! I found a small squirt of cheap wd40 helps minimize the swirls marks

Enjoyed that Simon. Great content, your a brave man attacking that club. 👍👍

I've got some clubs from a local thrift store to practice but the end goal, a beautiful looking scotty cameron bullseye

The best product to bring clubs back to original shine is Brasso waddling. Removes rust easily without effecting the groves and details and as for stone chips on leading edges just use a fine sanding block or if your wife has a nail file , haha. Far less aggressive than a drimell.

If your committed to getting a few tools for refurb. You should look at a small airbrush/compressor setup.

Great vids! Always enjoy your content! You are smashing it! My gf enjoys your RU-vid Vida and she doesn't even play golf haha 👍

Trying some steel wool might be a good start it doesnt take too much off and polishes it nicely

I think that the best route for refinishing is to go hard on every area that you did for the exception of the grooves. Go light or not at all on the grooves.

Get a work a small work bench good start m8 great to see 👍⛳🏌️‍♂️👍

Learning something new everyday always a good thing

Tube of solvo autosol, will bring them up like new after you have buffed this crap off with those dremel grit wheels, just put on the club and with a dremel felt polish wheel buff it over.

Great first attempt !! Keep going, this is really good content !!

Simon great job the learning part makes it more fun but please remember to leave milled faces alone. It can be easily overlooked on rusty and dirty clubs

Great series & best of luck with the channel numbers Cheers

Very good effort for a 1st time I would suggest less is more Go really fine grit and work your way up until your skill level improves Another great video!

Dremel once did a golf club cleaning machine and that came with 403 bristle brush and 535 brass brush. Maybe worth getting these attachments.

Good plan, think I would have just buffed the rest of the club and left the face. Or just give it a once over with the most fine buffing tool. That way you keep the grooves intact. Trial and error though as you say. At least you can practice on really old clubs. Maybe just get a bunch of 30 year old clubs to see what you can do, surely they'd cost next to nothing.

Love the video, always something i’ve thought about - What about using the cutting attachment on the Dremel to redo the grooves?

Love watching your videos can't wait till you get to 40,000

From this point very fine hand sanding to a buff and polish

honest video... but wow :) honestly... a bench grinder set up will give a far better finnish... bigger area ... less of a patchy finish bud

Cracking effort!!!

Definitely need some wd40 when sanding it will help with the finish

Good first time. Get a Grover sharpener too :)

Hi Simon, step 1: remove rust by putting the club into vinegar for around 20 mins ( not the grip). Step 2: scrub with steel wool. Step 3: polish on Bench grinder with polish wheel( and gradiant polish, also cleans up rings but be careful) Step 4: paint with nail polish ( anywhere you like) clean with acetone and cotton buds. Do not clean black finish clubs this way!. The polish wheel also cleans metal shafts. Wash off excess with dish liquid and clean grooves. I have used this method for 2 years and the club's look great. It is just fun.

Trial and error. Looks much better. Keep practicing

Have you tried using Autosol metal polish? You can get a tube from halfords cheap.

Did the exact same with my dremmel on my old wedges. They looked a bit worse for wear, but then polished up, sharpened grooves and paint infil with enamel modelling paint and they looked amazing, and spun the ball like an absolute animal!

Simon take a look at Treetop Restorations. Looks like some good tips as they are restoring an old Titlesist wedge

Clubs look much better. The Dremel will save you loads of time. Keep practicing.

definitely do not sand the face. it just needs to be brushed and then resharpen the grooves.

Its suppose to be rusty but. I play with cleveland tour action 588s and they very rusted. Of course theres certain ones that dont rust like the gunmetal and the chrome ones but that one looks like a rusty one. Hope that makes sense lol.

Use a buffing compound rather than the sandpaper... also use the wire brush...

Any tips for removing chrome? I have a putter that's brass underneath a thin layer of chrome and I think polished up the brass would look amazing

try loading the sandpaper by running on wood first to make it less aggressive

Invest in some decent polishing compounds ! Huge difference

A bit of Flitz polish on the buffing wheel and in 5 minutes the club will look like new. Do not use the sanding wheel.

With a dremel as good as they are, you need to clamp the club in a vice.

Looking forward to seeing the Scotty finished up! Might have to get myself one of those tools. Will you look at things like a black oxide finish? Or stripping the chrome off? Or is that a bit over ambitious for diy?

A bit of info about grooves. Contrary to common belief, the primary purpose of the grooves is to act as channel for moisture/dirt to gather. Spin is created by friction between the face (non-grooved part) and the ball. When R&A and USGA ruled Ping's square grooves to be non-compliant, they did so to limit the channeling capability of the clubs. If you clean your wedges frequently you will have no worries. Clean faces are more important than clean grooves. However, its a good practice to clean both.

Hi Simon. Also Try a product called PEEK. From Lefty Yugel.

You need to get yourself a bench polisher/sander, that would cut down your time down even further.

Hi Simon, do you have any recommendations for dealing with rust inside a pocket cavity? I just bought some used Honma TR20Ps and I can see some rust on the inside of the pocket cavity of the 6i and 7i, I can't really see inside the other ones. Is there something I could spray in there that would prevent the rust from getting worse?

Rather use a rust treatment and or polish out the rust before sanding. I wouldn't risk deforming the face

Great video, enjoying this journey.... I find soaking in white vinegar and salt removes a lot of the rust prior to sanding and buffing.

Simon great video. Can you put all of your cleaning videos into a playlist on the channel.

I bought a dremel for the exact same reason a couple of weeks ago. Practiced on some crappy clubs first though! Need to find out if they do different grit sandpaper parts as they definitely are the speediest.