[Woodcarver] Carving Golf Balls

[Oregonkarver at aol.com]

I use to keep the sites until they started being unreliable.  The way I tell 
what golf balls to carve is the solid ones will make a sharper sound then the 
ones with rubber bands.  The rubber band ones will make more of a thud sound 
when hitting cement, I might make a mistake one in 20 or so if that now that I 
know the sounds they make.  I have sorted more than 200 golfballs using this 
method and it works really well.  

For cutting the cover off mark the line where you want to cut first. Cut two 
pieces of wood 1' thick that will  fit in your vise, Drill a 1" about 1/2 " 
deep into each piece of wood as near the end of the pieces as you can.

Put the ball into the holes and clamp in your vise.  Take a diamond cutting 
wheel in your rotary tool and cut along your line.  The ball will have to be 
rotated at lease once while cutting.  At first I had to rotate the ball a couple 
of times but then you get the hang of it.  I tried making  the golfball cover 
cutting thing out of the pipe cutter with little luck.  I can cut a lot of 
covers in a short period of time with the rotary toll.

Any questions email and I might be able to get a picture of my setup to email 
out if needed.

Arthur Harpool
oregonkarver at aol.com

 Carving in Oregon
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