I had a request recently to take a decent condition ANSER and make it personal for his son. I've never been asked to mill off the engraving in the cavity of an Anser. But who really cares, it's a great putter but the engraving/stamping doesn't make it that.

   Also the "tumbled" finish had to go and get replaced with a MannKrafted satin black polymer, the floor of the flange left tumbled all the rest polished. LaMont didn't have quite the sheen we were going for so we custom mixxed one and it came out perfect. Final touch was the fish-eye milling, gorgeous !! Last I heard, my friend is loving it !!

   I have been looking at this putter head on my bench for a verrry long time, trying to come up with a design plan to put it in my bag.

   The rough milling was created by the gifted hands of Mr. Charlie Dix of hometownputters.com . He sent it to me a while back with a note to ponder and see what I could make it into.

   Then I found laying around a stick of damascus that would make a killer neck.. what if I twisted it, then bent it for "onset" vs offset...?

   Since these pics were taken, the bumpers were shaved about 3/8" and the neck shortened about 5/8" by LaMont of MannKrafted.com and SunSet Beach Custom Garage. The plumber cup is the top portion of a Wilson K-28 iron hosel forged of a magnetic stainless steel. The welding of it to the neck will be ground down to appear as one continuous piece. I really like these sans-ferule neck styles reminiscent of those created by Truett Mills and David. This with the carbon head and damascus neck should make for a very cool look when finished, and a very crisp yet soft feel.

   I got on this "onset" neck kick because I can't understand why you would ever design a putter with the neck in the way of your view of the putter face.

More coming, but let's try to get this post started.

   My great friend, (hope your fine Amigo), Gene Nead, had his MiNi reviewed on Putter Talk last month. Gene is an extreme artisan, every angle and cut are way over the top exact. I appreciate the positivity of the review, but lumping him in with Scotty Cameron's garbage was unfair.

   Read the review and judge for yourself.

puttertalk.com/reviews/putters/gene-nead-mini-nead-putter-review/

Thanks for checking in, Morgan

   LaMont has discovered a new "Teflon infused electroless Nickle" finish which finishes dark gray, almost black.

   This is not an add for his work or a promise.

   Just awefully pretty so I had to show it...

Thanks for looking, Morgan

Or go to s654.photobucket.com/albums/uu270/MannKrafted/Custom%20Work%20for%20Tad%20Moore/

   I had almost forgotten this club and this finish. I was trying to find something else on PhotoBucket.com and stumbled across these pics.( and some others to be posted soon )

   This is an old some-what rare TP Mills TPM-7 chipper. After I reworked it to erase all of the neglect, it just happened that LaMont and I were trying a new, very wierd, psychodelic finish. I don't know why we quit doing it.

   I found this head in a cover a couple weeks ago while looking for something else and it is even wierder looking now.

   The finish is still do-able if someone has something headed LaMont's way.

Thanks

   Tad sent me this head as a gift with neck unbent and only face stamping and told me "Have fun with it". So I took it with me for an afternoon in "The Bear's" shop. We had a great time ! I got the major wheel work done then LaMont and I locked her in a vice and got the torches on the neck and started bending. After that was done I had to pull outta town and left it to him to complete. I later called LaMont from the road with my stamping idea for the sole, cleared the concept and name with Tad and "DIXIE" was created. What an awesome blade !!

I like her a bunch...

   My great friend Tad Moore sent me a copper replacement insert for another friends putter, Majic 55 posted already. I opened the box and thought "this is awfully heavy for an insert". As usual, being Tad, he sent a super-weird super-cool putter head for me to complete. The funky metal work visible in the pics is way cool, but the stamping is strictly meant for me I guess. I love it !! It will be gun blued and neck bent and some more grinder and wheel work by Wednesday morning. More pics posted as it goes. Just had to show some of Tad's "Artistry".

Sorry the pics really stink, I'll get some replacements and updates when I get home.

Morgan

   I was cruising thru the putter pics on another forum site a year or so ago and saw this incedibly beautiful and original design by a guy I've never heard of, Gene Nead. Gene is a Mega Star crew chief in NASCAR, but I didn't know that yet.

   I had been searching for a putter milling guy that would work with damascus for me so I gave him a call. While working out the damascus part of it, I asked if he could mill me a G-Weld with a stainless face and carbon bumpers...

    THIS IS HER...

neadcustomputters.COM

   This beauty was hand crafted by good friend Gen Nead of NeadCustomPutters.com . She may be going to a new home soon so I figured I better get her posted now.

   The face and neck are milled from 440 fold, 5 steel damascus, which is normally used in extremely high end knives. The center/shoulder section is created of beautiful torched copper, and the bumpers of torched blue Titanium.

   The beauty Tad Moore damascus putters of the 90s always haunted me and drove me to find someone willing to work with the material. When Gene's "G-Weld" putters appeared I recognized his genious immediately. After purchasing a Bi-Metal G-Weld (posting it soon), and another Damascus, this creature was to me the next logical step.

   Thanks a bunch Gene !!!

Don't know how to get much prettier, but I'll work on it ...

Morgan

   A friend from one of the forums, inquired about a possible trade if I had a putter semi Anser-ish with a swan neck if possible. I had this new Tad Moore Majic 55 which had some cup problems on the long plummer's neck. So after consulting with LaMont about possibilities...

   The original insert was some type of poured insert that Maxfli and Tad developed. By welding the new neck we knew the insert would be trashed and I was preparing to have to repour it and remill it. Then Tad as gracious as always offered to send us a copper insert instead. Then LaMont tells me that there is one more of my old "Copper Chrome" shafts left.

   It has been a long project with me on the road so much lately, but here she is thus far...

I still need to shape the insert a tiny bit to get it to fit just right, paint fill and shaft her up.

Morgan