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Ray said:
@Addison
Have you thought about roasting them? That will make the wood much harder and more stable. Roasted wood used in basses and guitars don’t even need a finish.

Can confirm, my bass has a roasted maple neck and it’s built like a brick shithouse lol.

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@Linden
Plus, it vaguely smells like popcorn!

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Zade said:
Curious. I’d think the wood head would be pretty light. Did you have to add metal plates or something to get to 355?

What kind of wood are you using? Looks like hickory.
(Nevermind- olive wood)

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@Addison
Not worried about making indents on the face? Some putts require a hard hit. I feel like hickory or some other exotic woods that are insanely hard would be the only choice.

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Lyle said:
@Addison
Not worried about making indents on the face? Some putts require a hard hit. I feel like hickory or some other exotic woods that are insanely hard would be the only choice.

Olive wood is actually one of the hardest woods, it’s incredibly durable. Indents were a concern when I started, but I’ve iterated on treatments and tested out using the putter for 100’ puts from the fairway to see. All good.

I did try one early version with cherry wood. That one was no good, it dented on a ~50’ putt so I can only use certain hardwoods or I’ll need to epoxy the face (I don’t want to do that if I can avoid).

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@Addison
Nice! I do a lot of woodworking so I’m familiar with most hardwood but have never worked with olive wood. I would imagine maple would be hard enough. Cherry is one of my favorite woods to work with since it’s not super hard.

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@Lyle
Ya my first design on cherry was easy and then I did olive wood and my router gave me a good lesson (I had never used olive before). Luckily I had PPE on when it bit :weary: take away tiny amounts and many passes.

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@Addison
Ugh there’s nothing I hate more than a router bit catching.

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Hey this is kinda cool!

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Congrats on the progress these are awesome.

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Jaden said:
Congrats on the progress these are awesome.

Thank you :pray:.

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Looks a lot like Bradley Putters process.

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Keaton said:
Looks a lot like Bradley Putters process.

Bradley Putters is definitely something I’ve admired online, but I’m trying to go a different way. I also can’t do artwork like that and I’m trying to avoid epoxy.

I’m assuming he has automated CNC for his shapes and I hope to get there one day. I was an ME and I go old school on the machine shop so I gotta figure it all out by hand before automation. Probably how he started :man_bowing:.