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How do I go about making a putter from wood. I would like a list of tools that are readily available and easy to get and cheap. I would also like to know some woods to look into and how to cut the different parts as well as the hosel.

I have several wooden putters made by Louisville Golf, including maple and persimmon. They don't have hosels...the shaft goes into a hole drilled into the head. Basically you need a wood working setup to make them. From the vagueness of your question, it would seem you need to go find a school and take a basic woodworking course.

corwin; I've been building wooden putters for 3 years now, and if you have to ask this question, I'd say you don't have the tools or wood working skills needed to build a good putter. Sorry.

My brother makes guitars?? would he he have the equipment?? i wouldnt mind trying it.

Oneputt you probably are right but I do know how to widdle using just a basic pocket knife its just I didnt know how to go about it in a larger scale manner such as this.

i would say alot of sand paper, a jig saw, a drill press, a miter say and a table belt sander. but im just guessing.

alright thank you socal I guess Ill have to find someone who has a drill press and miter and table belt sander. Thanks again.

Im lucky my brother has all these things, but maybe you should look for a book, just like a guitar its easier in the mind, but when it comes to building one there are so many things to consider.

Louisville golf the best wooden putters and yes persimmon heads. try it and find out how hard golf really is. But what a great sound.

I got the idea from messing around putting with an old wood driver and it felt wonderful. I know it wont feel the same as a putter but the sound and soft feel I loved. I dont want to pay 100 dollars+ for a putter which is the reason i wanted to make one myself. Also if I get stuck I know multiple people who could assist me or at the very least let me use their tools which I dont own.

If you intend to try this, you might want to get a table saw, a lathe, a bandsaw, a drill press, a belt sander, and a milling machine if you really want to do accurate work. You will also need to figure out how to add some weight to the wood to make the putter heavy enough. I machine pockets inside the body of my putters and install lead weights. I built a 4 cavity mold, to cast the lead weights, so you will need to come up with some thing for this. You will also need the basic club assembly tools and equipment. But first, you need to figure out how to build a putter that will work as well, if not better than the metal ones you can find in the store. How are you at designing tools? I don't know for a fact, but I doubt you will find any books out there on building a wooden putter.

Crawford: You mentioned that your brother builds guitars. Does he build them from a kit, or does he start with a big piece of wood, and cut everything himself. They make kits for building guitars, and there's a big difference, assembling a kit, and building a guitar from stratch. It's like baking a cake from a box of cake mix, and starting with flour and a bunch of other ingredients, and figuring out how to bake a cake that you'd want to eat. I'm sure a lot of people could take a piece of wood, and cut it down to the same size and shape as a metal putter. But it wouldn't work as a putter, as the weight would be all wrong.
Good luck to all of you that try this. You will need it and a good bit of money to do it right. I've got over $15,000 in machines and about $1000 more in tooling. I've got two molds for casting the lead weights for the putters, and they would cost you around $150 each, if you could find someone to build you some. A lead casting setup, will cost you another $250 for the lead furnace. I don't mean to sound so negative, I just want you guys to know there's more to building a wooden putter than carving a piece of wood to shape.

My brother makes them from just a big block of wood, he does the sawing and they sanding and everything.

In that case, he might have most of the tools you need. but you still need to design a putter head that will work well enough to make it worth your time to build it. Good luck and have fun.

I refurb putters as a hobby, in particular, older Scotty Camerons. I clean them up, stripping them back to bare steel and welding/soldering where necessary and then either electro-plate them (copper, nickel, black-chrome, etc) or finish them in oil-can or gun-blue.

I attempted to make a wooden putter-head along the same sort of design as a Scotty Cameron Newport/Ping Anser. I used a hardwood (mahogany) and, although the head looked perfectly fine, I couldn't get the weighting arrangement good enough to play with. I also tried a style similar to the standard blade type putter, but again, the weighting wasn't any where near good enough.

I decided that these sorts of design weren't suitable for putters and probably the reason why most wooden putters are of the mallet persuasion. I have never been happy putting with a mallet-style, so gave-up on the idea.

I do, however, now have a very nice pair of mahogany putter heads on my desk - one holds a silver pen, the other a matching propelling pencil!

oneputt if I may ask you seem to know this like the back of your hand if you will. Would you be willing to help me out in making this for me as you seem to know making these from top to bottom? I could take care of it after the head.