Last in my collection was also my first. I love the feel of the nickel plated carbon and the watcher stamping on the bottom. It’s nicely face balanced and the neck is so cool. I think Lamont said he used the mill like a mini lathe to make it.

Got this about May or so this year. Gentleman I bought it from said it’s brass, and he had his dad do a little work on it to shape it like a batarang. I would be curious to know what it looked like before that. It sure is dense for its size but has a great feel.

This was a pickup from Second Swing. It was in good shape but needed just a little love. I’ve bead blasted it back to raw aluminum but may eventually cerakote it back to black. The hardest part of this putter is finding a headcover!

I’m calling this a MidWide as it starts as a Wide Body XL Rattler. I milled .200” off of the width, from the bumper side. It still has a wider footprint than my old Rattler, but not mid-mallet looking by any stretch. The neck was an idea that just popped into my head and sent me to the Bridgeport. A little redneck machining and I had it fab’d up. A little bit of offset and she’s set at 70*/3* lie and loft. The head is still hot from bending that neck, but I’ll get some clean-up done and post some update pix as soon as it is pretty. Thanks, LaMont in AZ

I picked this up on another website BST section over the winter. I did a lot of searching and I believe it may be the one putter that gave Lamont the best run for his money. It started life with a copper insert and was converted to GSS to match the rest of the putter. Any thoughts Lamont?

Long, Twisted 'n' Sick MA/66 from somewhere in the past year, I believe. She is a 303SS head and neck with some heat finish touches. It is funny to hear guys discuss twisting necks and not completely understanding just how touchy it can be to get them straight. I know when I had not done one, I figured "how tough can it be?" Yeah, the Golf Gods have a way of humbliing just about anybody.

I had a current customer send me these pix, yesterday afternoon. It is a putter that I have not seen in quite a while. Back in 2014, I moved my work to a Hot Stix location in Scottsdale. It gave the opportunity to meet people that I never would have met, working in the back of a machine shop in Mesa. One of those people was US Open winner Steve Jones. He was thinking of building a website and selling product that had some relevance to his style and career. He and I designed a few prototypes and I believe this one made the trip to a US Senior Open. Although he rolled it well during practice rounds, he put an Odyssey #9 in the bag for the tournament. My thinking was that Odyssey paid day money and guaranteed pay is tough to turn down. When he came back, we tweaked things and made at least one more prototype before calling it a day on the idea. This putter, I believe was given to a female player who helped rep my product and a training aid at the 2014 PGA show in LasVegas as a thank you. I have no idea who owns it now, but it was fun to see the pix. Face-balanced, handmilled brass head and “JONES-Z” rolled great, just didn’t wind up the home run that we had hoped.

Wild hair and a block of Damascus. Not really shaped to resemble anything, but she'll probably go on a "Thin My Bumpers" diet before she finds a home. Right now, she tips the scales at 370+, IIRC. Too much for my bag, but today's gamers are running the full gambit of weight. The neck is a CNC short slant and I kept the face smooth to show off the pattern. Looking at it in these pix, I think maybe widening that pocket may be the better way to go, instead of thinning those bumpers...... What do you think?

I’ve had a few blocks of Damascus under the bench and a customer came knocking with a very specific shape in mind. I squared up the block, grabbed a bar of round for the neck and went to town. It showed itself pretty early on and gave me a feeling that we’d love the end result. The finish is a simple torch and the customer should be receiving it today. My fingers are crossed that he is as excited as I was to ship it out.

This one was a long story that ended much better than it started. I have a great customer who uses my putters and has passed on the appreciation for my work to two of his children. Both of those young people have accomplished some impressive tournament wins, along the way. The putter shown here was shipped via UPS, along with another putter, maybe two years ago to his home. He came home to an open box on his front porch with one putter and one cover, still in the box. The second cover and putter just disappeared. UPS denied coverage for the theft because the pictures sent were inadequate to substantiate the story. Fast forward to this year and the missing putter winds up on eBay, 3-4 states away. No way of knowing how many sets of hands it went thru. A local customer of mine purchased it to give to his son, but the VEALE stamping in the cavity had zero meaning to the young man. It is nickel plated carbon, so milling it away would have left raw steel just begging for some moisture to start rusting. I had some scrap copper at the shop and was able to machine that badge at .050 thick. I followed that with a 5-dot and twin cacti, some 3M tape and “What stamping?” It worked perfectly and the new owner is heading to Indiana University with something he can be proud of. Looking at this final result and knowing that for 26 years, 1/8” was close enough for 99% of my gaps/fits, I just shake my head. A LOT has changed over the years.