They're still out there! I found the above putter at a garage sale last week - it's in near-perfect condition. The face, back, and HeadSpeed shaft are close to mint condition (with only a couple minor nicks on the topline). Keep searching...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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Great Find, im Jealous
ReplyDeleteThe nickle is a blatant misstatement. All "64" 8802's were "HAND GROUND and Hand buffed before they were chromed. Some had a taller face, some had a lower face. It all depended on the actual quality of the forging process. In 1964 there were "NO" 1000 of an inch tolerances in "ANY Iron or Putter from Wilson. That happened in the mid 1990's. Again, the quarter is "TOTAL B.S.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, a quarter is total BS! The face height you're looking for is the height of a nickel, NOT a quarter!😂 You are correct about one thing… the heads were all and hand-ground and also hand-fitted to the shafts. Even though the heads were hand-ground, the face height never varied by +/- a 1/16" of an inch, the vast majority being +/- 1/32". Hand grinding was nothing more than cleaning up the raw forging to it's basic shape.
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