Vintage Blades

A great way to get a very classy and playable set of golf clubs is to "remanufacture" a classic set of forged blades from the past. If truth be told, there haven't been many improvements in the forging process in fifty years. Ease of use has been improved by some later innovations such as perimeter weighting and progressive offsets but that's about all you can do to forged clubs. Ben Hogan didn't play cavity backs and he did OK.

The cost of remanufacturing a set of Vintage Blades depends on the cost and condition of the clubs as well as the final choice in shafts. As a general rule, grinding, reweighting and rechroming an iron head costs approximately $30. If you buy a set of irons for $300 you can remanufacture them with your choice of shafts, "pure custom" for about what it costs to buy a new set off the rack. Ballpark: $900, less for more common models.