A mirrored putter skids. A milled one can die.

What wears off

Factory mill patterns are shallow. A year of covers, coins, and practice carpets knocks the ridges into a mirror. On a dry July green you might not notice. On a February green that still has rain in it, the ball sits, then leaps. Golfers call this “the greens were slow then fast.” Often the face was the variable.

We mill a quiet pattern with a small stepover, then check roll on a wet scrap of carpet we keep because we are not dragging a CNC vise onto a green. It is a proxy. It is better than a guess.

Paint, inserts, vetoes

Alignment paint may not survive. We tape what we can and warn you about the rest. Soft inserts are a different object; some we will not mill. Cast zinc toys are a no. A carbon-steel blade with honest thickness is the job we like. Soft carbon will stain in 97401 humidity — we tell you, we do not sell you a rust-prevention sermon.