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if it makes you feel better same for me. i like that they done with less stamping and heavier headweights tho.

same here. wondering if they gonna be making JDM version of the mini.

hey guys, you dont really need a machine to do this. you can do it with a simple swingweight scale and some basic calculations. have a look here http://www.tutelman.com/golf/design/swingwt4.php recommend you read the whole thing but the method itself is described under '... with a swingweight scale' section on that page. its super easy to do and it works.

its on purpose there so you know where to put some lead tape :)

NICE!

sounds like what i need and if they can make it hold the face angle to boot that would be my dream putter! :)

i dont think 430 head is any lighter. tour van heads seen on ebay both 460 and 430 seem to be around 195-197g (not hotmelted) and i wouldnt call that heavy at all. no idea how heavy/light jdm version is. how heavy is your 460 head anyway ? i read you can get different weight plates for them. i actually want a heavier 430 head 200+ or something, saw one jdm 430 tour head with toe screw on ebay too. edit: one of the 430 jdm heads on ebay says 202g weight.

bump. interested in this too. thinking to maybe get one closer to when season opens around here. interestingly rumor has it tm being tm wrt their release cycle planning to release 250cc "mini" driver. so that should be interesting too tho dunno if there is gonna be jdm model or not.

black finish looks dope on that wedge. also like custom "woody" iron shot on your shop front page. yoro can certainly pimp them good and proper.

you mean his design with weight ports ? if you want heavy get something like miura 5003 heads (for carbon variety), they are probably the heaviest finished heads you can get and should be slightly heavier than wishons with ports loaded. or lead tape them to death, that works.

to me a classic blade has meat directly behind the sweetspot. i think this one is more towards what you call neo blades in your posts.

i think 5003 are plenty forgiving for a blade. if you compare them to very old stuff like old hogans or macgregors they certainly are. you guys just got spoiled by all those neo shovel 'blades' of today :) personally i dont like how this new one looks with the meat taken away i dont think its gonna have real blade feel to it. i understand its progress, market and all that good stuff but miura was one of a few who made no gimmicks real blades. on the other hand no one gonna see that cut from address so if they maintain their razor thin top line and invisible offset and it feels and works like a real blade but more forgiving that would be pretty cool.

thats a beautiful looking blade man! kinda proves my point just by looking at it and then looking at that putter and i mean you dont have to be Damascus or Champagne expert to see that. nobodys trying to cut golf ball in half in one strike with their putter either tho sometimes it feels like something like that can give a proper satisfaction and if thats the goal they should stamp under the grip how many they cut with each doing cut tests.

man bad example, you know i live in France ;) Champagne can only be from France and from the same region, there is appellation contrôlée to guarantee that and in most civilized countries its illegal to to sell anything else under that name so its not an argument its a fact. even when you plant the same grapes elsewhere and follow the same process the soil is different, the climate and weather are different, the water is different, the end result is not the same. some Californian whites are good examples of that. sure there are other sparkling wines that are great eg from Italy but none of them are Champagne.

Chris, dont get me wrong its nice looking putter and i'm sure it feels great off the face but this whole damascus story is just plain wrong i hate when manufacturers do that. damascus is long gone. there is no real production damascus today and hasnt been for ages. the art was lost long ago and while some claimed they have figured it out thru research and trial the only real damascus left are ancient blades in museums and private collections and what produced today is simply styled to look something like it because of pretty patterns. the real interesting thing about damascus was that it was hard and not brittle at the same time which is something very desirable for swords. japanese used special folding and quenching process to have a blade that can withstand bend stress, can be sharp and not too brittle at the edge. damascus had that plenty. one can make those patterns by cheap methods like etching or something after forge is done with it, similar to how knockoff japanese hamon is made or one can make it part of forging process which would be more expensive so thats what you are referring to i guess. the composition of steel however could be anything because there is no standard formula or recipe for real damascus. there is no real need for a putter to have the same qualities as sword either so composition can be anything best suitable for putters eg very soft carbon feel and then they have a styled pattern on it (cheap or expensive way) and call it damascus steel. its not like they took art collection pieces and made limited run putters out of them (thank god). just wanted to mention this.