The Knuth High Heat thread in the clubs forum piqued my curiosity here. If I find a mirror polished face helpful or desirable do I need to by a Knuth to get one, or can I take a current club and do a little DIY upgrading?
The metal on driver faces with a satin finish have what I'll call a "brushed" appearance to them, as if someone dragged a fine broom across the surface. In essence it is a series of fine scratches on the surface.
To get to a perfectly polished surface, one must replace the fine scratches with a succession of finer and finer scratches until they become essentially invisible. The easiest way to do so is sanding with successively finer grits of sandpaper. Doing so might yield something like this:
This is my old K15 driver. You can see the beginnings of a mirror polished face like the KHH, but not quite. There are still some visible scratches on the face that I felt were to deep to take out without potentially compromising the integrity of the face. Keep in mind that you are removing metal from an already thin face, and you don't want to overdo it. But you should be able to get to a similar look fairly quickly without much material removal. I was able to get to this point in about 15 minutes.
If you think you might like a polished face and have an older driver hanging around, thirty minutes and several grits of wet dry sandpaper can get you there.
The metal on driver faces with a satin finish have what I'll call a "brushed" appearance to them, as if someone dragged a fine broom across the surface. In essence it is a series of fine scratches on the surface.
To get to a perfectly polished surface, one must replace the fine scratches with a succession of finer and finer scratches until they become essentially invisible. The easiest way to do so is sanding with successively finer grits of sandpaper. Doing so might yield something like this:
This is my old K15 driver. You can see the beginnings of a mirror polished face like the KHH, but not quite. There are still some visible scratches on the face that I felt were to deep to take out without potentially compromising the integrity of the face. Keep in mind that you are removing metal from an already thin face, and you don't want to overdo it. But you should be able to get to a similar look fairly quickly without much material removal. I was able to get to this point in about 15 minutes.
If you think you might like a polished face and have an older driver hanging around, thirty minutes and several grits of wet dry sandpaper can get you there.
