Hi!

I want to do something a bit creative and pain some golf clubs. Probably not as nice as these, but I will try.

Anybody has some experience with it? Which type of colors work best on a metal surface? Acrylic or enamel?

Any colour as long as it is pink

I would not do it.

The paint is extra weight, which might increase the weight enough, that migt have negative impact on your swing.

Doc.

I was wondering about that but as I don't golf, I was thinking it might be silly.

My other thought was that there likely will need to be some sort of laquer to keep the edges smooth BUT I imagine the laquer would make the striking surface uncertain? Too hard / soft, possibly chipped from impact?

I planned to take the exiting paint off first, so the difference should be pretty much nothing.

Simple: you do not color the striking surface... never. Like this:


I'd like to exchange the black part with another color... say pink.

Ahh, whelp, I wasn't thinking the striking surface would be "painted" as opposed to needing some laquer to smooth the transition from painted to non-painted.

HOWEVER

I'm thinking there is some sort of epoxy / resin on the club with the paint underneath (usually if at all) and the strike plate over top.. with the whole business smoothed over?

It's been a loooong time since I've seen clubs close up though, I'm talking my father's clubs something like 20yrs ago.



So, assuming what I0m imagining is right and the basic idea is similar to decorating eyeglass frames / lens edges or putting fancy designs on fingernails ...

You really shouldn't do this yourself. IF you do though, what you use for the decorative paint is less important than getting someone to layer some resin over it to keep everything smooth and aerodynamic.

DIY though, I'd say scuff club (sandpaper) so that the paint (whatever type) "sticks" better, paint, dip, buff (seems like that may be the trickiest part BUT a carpenter's wheel buffer would probably work, afix strike plate and buff again to be sure the plate and resin are smooth to each other (again, for interest of aerodynamics).


Hmm... a piano repair person probably would have the right kind of buffer also, the one we used in the lab for polishing lens edges was the same sort used to polish piano keys.

The clubs I want to paint are actually "woods" made of metal...

So there is not really a strike plate anymore, but the entire thing is a piece of metal. I planned to sandpaper the black part nicely till it is 80% off (instead of polishing it entirely - this saves me the work to put on a primer...), color it and maybe put a clear coat on top to make it extra shiny. I do not think the currenty paint is any resin, but possible the type of laquer that is burned in?

The local "bau&hobby" did not have the fancy paints I was looking for... so maybe I will have to go to some graffity shop

"What are you going to tag?"
"A golf club."

Now I feel old.

I think they look terrific and would be a great outlet for your creative talents.
Try this -

http://www.ehow.com/how_5061423_pain...lub-heads.html

i wouldn't worry about the paint weight. it's negligible and will not have any affect on club performance nor your swing.

besides that, i know very little about painting, although a lot about golf. might need special paint because the vibrations may put cracks in it over time.

I read this article and went with this approach in head to the shop yesterday... but looking at the brass brushes for my drill, I guess I will rather do it manually. This sounds like the tools for the more experienced folks. Anyway, I will give it a try (and if it does not look entirely terrible, I will post pictures...)