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I'm teaching wood and metalwork at the school I work at. I talked with a couple of my students about making our own wedges from scratch. (maybe we'll be buying some shafts and grips). But the heads would begin as a piece of metal.

Does anybody have experience with forging their own golfclubs?

Where can I find rules on headsize, groovelength/depth and so on?

You can actually write the USGA...explain it's a school project and they'll assist you.

There are many areas of concer for compliance...including, groove depth, width, distance between grooves, amount of face roughness allowed...etc

Keep us posted as you progress...I'd LOVE to see what you turn out!

I think it would be cool to design and mill my own putter! Take some of the best ideas from different manufacturers and incorporate them into one awesome putter, custom made to fit me!

Excellent project!

Include open thoughts that may not be within the confines of USGA rules.

Please report what is found.

Inconsistant: I felt the same way, which is why I designed my own putter 3 years ago. It's working out quite well in fact. They work very well, and I've gotten nothing but good reports on them from some golf instructors in the area that have tried my design.

I have been giving some thought to doing the same. I have access to equipment needed . If I do, I'll start with cast blanks and temper them. Probably do the machining before tempering.
I bought an old brass putter years ago and reconditioned it. I like it for short uphill putts.

Years ago over Christmas break in college, I milled a putter from a hexagonal billet of brass I found laying around at work. For the hosel, I used a length of cold-rolled steel and double bent it to give proper offset and lie. I used a hand grinder, files, and a hacksaw to do the shaping and had some measuring tools (not precision tools) to determine length, lie, and loft. When I was done, I polished the brass, removing any pits and then applied a gun blueing solution, which made it turn black (really cool). The putter ended up ugly as all get out, but it felt awesome. I used it for one season until I happened across an old Ping Dalehead Anser. I still have the putter in my closet.

I pulled the putter out a couple months ago to show my friends. They were impressed, not at the looks, but the weight (it's really heavy, but not Heavy heavy) and how it felt.

I had a friend in college who was a metallurgy student who offered to help me design and make castings for brass putters, but we got busy and never got around to doing more than the design work.

Just began the work with the kids today... It's gonna take a while, even though some of them are quite big and strong, they hit the steel like little girls.

But my own wedge is forming up nicely. I'm going to make it like the japanese do with their swords. I'm folding the steel quite a few times forming a bulge at the bottom, getting the majority of the weight down low. Only just got the first few layers formed up, and it's gonna be a few weeks before it would look anything like a golfclub.

I'll be posting links to pictures soon.

what ever happened with this?

I have finished the club. I doubt it conforms to an regulations, being quite heavy. It performs reasonably well with full power shots, but if I have to do any shot that needs a bit of finesse, it handles like ****.

I'm going to make a new try in the fall, I've been working with some new techniqes

awesome, sounds very cool, let us know how it goes

I probably would have went with putters, but the wedge is not too bad. Just for your info, the .370 bore is made with a 3/8" carbide drill. Weight is usually around 280 to 300 gms. Check the rules on grooves so that you abide by USGA guidlines.

Have fun.

BT

I agree with all the above. Please keep your project going and let us know how it goes

there is such a big selection coming in from china itseasy to try any style for a reasonable price but I think any one who likes to build things and plays golf has though about making there own putter