I was out hit those little birdie balls around the yard today and evidentely caught a rock. Now I've got these two big marks on the bottom of my 7 iron. It wont hurt the playability of the club at all, but really ticks me off and I don't like the fact that's it's there.
Can Mizuno repair this? Or if not, what should I do?
this can be repaired, but it will cost you about $50.00. the club appears to be chrome plated, so what needs to be done is they will weld the areas that are chipped, grind them down, strip the chrome, and rechrome. minzuno, i'm sure does this, golfworks, golfsmith, and the iron factory (www.theironfactory.com) and allow a least a month.
don't file the areas if your going to send it in,, just makes more to weld and tougher to do so
this can be repaired, but it will cost you about $50.00. the club appears to be chrome plated, so what needs to be done is they will weld the areas that are chipped, grind them down, strip the chrome, and rechrome. minzuno, i'm sure does this, golfworks, golfsmith, and the iron factory (www.theironfactory.com) and allow a least a month.
don't file the areas if your going to send it in,, just makes more to weld and tougher to do so
That's good to hear! Thanks.
50 bucks is fine with me. I might just contact Mizuno and see exactly what they charge and how long I'll be without the club. If it's going to be a month or so, I may just deal with it the rest of the year and get it re-done during the winter months or something. No way I can be without the 7 iron for a month right now! lol
Well, I talked to Mizuno and they told me I'd probably be just as well to buy a new 7 iron if the marks were a problem. They aren't really a problem, because I can still use it, but just bugs me that I know it's there.
Your choices are replace it or just put in a little work with a file. Be careful not to get a sharpe edge on it. If you file it the exposed edge will rust.
DO NOT FILE IT! Filing will only remove metal, which will only make things worse. When you hit the rock, in essence what you did was move metal. Chuck the head in a vise and with the ball end of a ball-peen hammer, peen (move)the metal back where it belongs. If you have some old punchs, grind the tips of them round, these can also be used. But whatever you do, dont file it.
pounding it with a hammer is going to derfore the whole leading edge, your not going to get the metal back into place doing that. you more than likely removed a fair amount of material, and what was diplaced isnt going to move back
No one told him to pound it with a hammer. If he uses the ball end of the hammer, he can get the edges lower again. It will never be the same as original unless he has it welded, reground and then rechromed. But without doing all that, he can make the gouge less obvious.
No one told him to pound it with a hammer. If he uses the ball end of the hammer, he can get the edges lower again. It will never be the same as original unless he has it welded, reground and then rechromed. But without doing all that, he can make the gouge less obvious.
A ball part of a ball peen hammer is still a hammer, and while they are soft clubs, they are till not that maleable it's gonig to be hit pretty hard to move the metal anywhere.
Maleable means the opposite of dense right? That stinks that you messed up a nice mizuno, teaches you not to use high dollar clubs anywhere but the golf course although my friend did run into an incedent last week where a rock was like 2 inches in front of his ball and was almost the identical color of the ground and if we wouldnt of caught it then that wouldve been major trouble to his brand new Taylor Made TP wedge...
April 16th, 2006, 11:55 PM
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