Repairing club finish

[Stephen_Peszel]

OK, so from time to time I have swung a club so hard and erratically that I have gone under the ball on the tee and scratched the top surface of my driver and wood, well now they are starting to look a bit ugly and it is obvious I am a sky-baller even though I have mostly solved that problem.

I would like to know what methods people use to repair the finish. I have polished and polished but need a better method short of just painting a new finish.

Any ideas?

 

[surffoils]

Hi speszel, it all depends on the finish, some have a polyeurathane coating, kinda like a clear paint finish that you can touch up like a car repair. Clean it as best as you can,tape the area off, apply a thin coat of clear, sand it down with higher grades of sandpaper up to 1200 or higher and then buff it with a polishing compound and wax. SOme you can just carefully clean the dirt from the scratches and apply a thin coat of clear and buff when its dry. Its more complex and you might want to do 'colour-matching' if youve scraped some of the colour off a wood.

Uusually I end making more work for myself but some heads shine like my own.

 

I make surfboards as a hobby and theres a lot of sanding and polishing involved with that...

[Stephen_Peszel]

Thanks for the response, yours was the only one so I guess nobody else has this problem. Yes, this is the approach I had considered but I wondered if someone had some magic touch but experience shows that there is no short cut in anything, so sanding and polishing I will go, colour matching is the hard part.