Golf woods restoration.

Uncle Ben

Hi,
I was at the local recycling centre today and whilst disposing of the usual waste in the various skips, I came across 4 Fred Smith Flagmaster woods dumped amongst the christmas trees! These are the 1 to 4 woods that are of the 'persimmion' type.

After examining them, the shafts are good, there appears to be no cracks in the wood itself and just the usual skuffs / skymarks on the sole and brass sole plates, I asked the lad working there, could I take them, and he gave me them along with a Callaway Warbird driver that was thrown in the metal skip also.

As a past time over the next few months, my intention is to strip them down and try and restore them with a view to using them. I'll post some before, during and after photos.
Is there anyone on here that does this and might have some tips and does anyone have any info on Fred Smith Flagmaster. Apart from a golf entry on google about a company that existed in the 1980s there is nothing else.

slave1

AFAIK Fred Smith worked out of Portmarnock, they were my first set of irons that I bought second hand in the '90's

Rippeditup

Uncle Ben wrote: »

Hi,
I was at the local recycling centre today and whilst disposing of the usual waste in the various skips, I came across 4 Fred Smith Flagmaster woods dumped amongst the christmas trees! These are the 1 to 4 woods that are of the 'persimmion' type.

After examining them, the shafts are good, there appears to be no cracks in the wood itself and just the usual skuffs / skymarks on the sole and brass sole plates, I asked the lad working there, could I take them, and he gave me them along with a Callaway Warbird driver that was thrown in the metal skip also.

As a past time over the next few months, my intention is to strip them down and try and restore them with a view to using them. I'll post some before, during and after photos.
Is there anyone on here that does this and might have some tips and does anyone have any info on Fred Smith Flagmaster. Apart from a golf entry on google about a company that existed in the 1980s there is nothing else.

I have an old Warbird 3 wood is the press alongside an original Scotty Cameron Newport that was the only putter that I ever really remember having some real hot streaks with

onlyfinewine

Try Googling " Fred Smyth " and see how you go. There is plenty of stuff worth reading.

Kace

Interesting. I would bring them down to Mick in Clontarf for a look. Take a look at this thread.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68164859

I went down to Mick last year to change the lie on some irons and we spent some time in his workshop - real old school. Very nice unassuming old gent.

He had hundreds (probably thousands) of old clubs including all of the really old stuff. He used to make the Fred Smyth clubs himself and worked in Dollymount doing so - he had many of them there in all states. He even showed me some of the blocks of wood as they were being made into clubheads.

I'm sure he would like to hear your story and would be able to advise you on what to do.

Let us know how you get on.

Uncle Ben

Kace wrote: »

Interesting. I would bring them down to Mick in Clontarf for a look. Take a look at this thread.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68164859

I went down to Mick last year to change the lie on some irons and we spent some time in his workshop - real old school. Very nice unassuming old gent.

He had hundreds (probably thousands) of old clubs including all of the really old stuff. He used to make the Fred Smyth clubs himself and worked in Dollymount doing so - he had many of them there in all states. He even showed me some of the blocks of wood as they were being made into clubheads.

I'm sure he would like to hear your story and would be able to advise you on what to do.

Let us know how you get on.

Thanks for that Kace, I'll give him a buzz. Here are some pics of the clubs from day 1.

Kace

Uncle Ben wrote: »

Thanks for that Kace, I'll give him a buzz. Here are some pics of the clubs from day 1.

I'm sure Mick will be pleased to hear that you rescued those !

Uncle Ben

Driver and 4 Wood sanded down three times by hand with 180 grit sandpaper and dipped twice in between in Nitromors semi-gel for 15 minutes.

Kace

Did you manage to get up to Mick yet ? I dropped a club into him there last week and am due to collect this weekend, so he's still operating out of the workshop.

Now that I say that, I just remembered that I nearly killed the guy by having a socket using his indoor driving net when he was getting me to test the changes he was making to my lie angles. Ball shot through into another room and just missed him :eek: