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[jmck]

Having to wait until after the holidays is a small price to pay for more pictures.

[Ironmaster Oddities]

Sorry I haven't posted any updates for 5 weeks.  My bride forbade me from visiting my stash until the holidays were over...something about too many other  obligations and too much work to be done at home and at the office.

Anyway, after 4 trips to Niles,MI and a lot of help from friends, Everything is now stored in my building.  I am making some  head way, although the photos don't reall show it.

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[Ironmaster Oddities]

Ironmaster Oddities, on 11 January 2013 - 05:46 PM, said:

Sorry I haven't posted any updates for 5 weeks.  My bride forbade me from visiting my stash until the holidays were over...something about too many other  obligations and too much work to be done at home and at the office.

Anyway, after 4 trips to Niles,MI and a lot of help from friends, Everything is now stored in my building.  I am making some  head way, although the photos don't really show it.I misplaced my other  digital camera and some interim shots are not available.
The clubs, bags, balls, carts and other paraphernalia take up about 1/3  of  a 12,000 sq ft building. (1,200Sq meters)

[Ironmaster Oddities]

Here are some pics of stuff i don't think you have seen to date: Set of  Slazenger.  Bobby Locke.  SS irons 2-9 plus 3 wedges and a putter. 1,2,3,4 persimmon woods. neck numbers on irons 003 and woods stamped 002. They are slazzies; but they shout MacGregor. Irons look like M-75 faces with VIP muscle back.

Misc. Putters.  I  must have 100 Bulls eyes, only 2 pings, assorted Ray Cooks,Otey, Spalding,  and lord knows what else.

Some drivers and wood sets:  Some great Golfcrafts, Super eyes, MTs, DXs, Joe Powell, Louisville Golf, Burke,PowerBilt.  You name it.
More pics to follow.

Happy golfing,
Uncle Bob

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[teevons]

Wow, what a great place to sort!! Hopefully heated too!!

[TripleGrindSole]

Wow. That guy must have had that basement packed to the brim.


Thanks for the pics, Uncle Bob! They made my day suck a bit less.

[esketores]

Phenomenal!
You had to say WHOA what have I gotten myself into the first time you realized the true size of the hoard.

[Sean25rp]

Seeing that stash in the new building is unbelievable! So much stuff!

[Ironmaster Oddities]

esketores, on 12 January 2013 - 03:00 AM, said:

Phenomenal!
You had to say WHOA what have I gotten myself into the first time you realized the true size of the hoard.

i say that every time I walk into the building.
Hopefully I can post an approx inventory of what is there.
Uncle Bob

[Blade Junkie]

Phenomenal !!!

I am loving this thread .... Wish I lived in the USA ... I'd come and help !

[nacho]

What's the newest club there like when did this guy stop collecting

[Ironmaster Oddities]

nacho, on 14 January 2013 - 09:41 PM, said:

What's the newest club there like when did this guy stop collecting

nacho,
This guy wasn't really a collector.  He was a hoarder. He bought everything and anything connected to golf. I probably have a couple thousand golf balls and a billion tees. He is about 90 years old. When his Alzheimer's got bad enough he couldn't go out anymore. That was about 4-5  years ago. But his daughter said he was into this do 15-18 years. So he probably started this gig around 1990 or so.  Newest pro line stuff would probably be pre 2000, from the later years. Hoard has some things that are conspicuous by their absence  here is a brief recap.
Only 2 ping putters and two old sets of Ping clubs.  Surprising. But evidence of it having been picked.
One Calaway driver and a hickory stick.  No other  Calaways.
Half dozen or so Taylormade tour burners. A few earlier models.  No putters or irons.
3 king Cobra metal woods, no irons
No Oddessys.
A few hundred assorted metal woods, 75% are retail or knock offs.  The rest pro line, but almost no titanium stuff.
Probably 50 graphite or composite head woods.
There are at least 200 sets of irons.
Probably 70 of them are praline blades...including a few leftys. ( w/s turf rider and golfcraft come to mind)
Around a hundred bulls eyes of all sizes and styles.
I have 2 big fiber barrels full of persimmon that I don't have room to keep.  Lots of Mac, Golfcraft, Titleist, Burke, Spalding, etc.

Last week I gave 70 sets to a local group called Mulligans4life.   They are like the1st Tee program the the PGA sponsors.
Tomorrow  am. giving another hundred or so sets to the local school system.  They are doing to add golf to the curricula in the middle and high schools next school year.  I am feeling really good about both of those gifts. 2 worthy causes.
Uncle Bob

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[ptjn1201]

Uncle Bob -- nice work giving away a few hundred sets to worthy causes.  When you first posted some of the pics, I didn't there could be enough worthy causes around.  Some of those aluminum mallet putters look pretty good -- they usually get all dinged up.

[Blade Junkie]

Ironmaster Oddities, on 14 January 2013 - 10:24 PM, said:

Last week I gave 70 sets to a local group called Mulligans4life.   They are like the1st Tee program the the PGA sponsors.
Tomorrow  am. giving another hundred or so sets to the local school system.  They are doing to add golf to the curricula in the middle and high schools next school year.  I am feeling really good about both of those gifts. 2 worthy causes.
Uncle Bob

I agree - that's a wonderful thing to do. well done !

If you have a Spalding Tour Edition Custom Crafted S22 6-iron from c1992 kicking about in one of those buckets please add Blade Junkie to the list of good causes

[Ironmaster Oddities]

Blade,
I will sift around in there. But I only remember a couple of tour edition irons. It is hard to imagine that I don't have one of everything ever built. Happy golfing
Uncle Bob

[Ironmaster Oddities]

ptjn1201, on 16 January 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:

Uncle Bob -- nice work giving away a few hundred sets to worthy causes.  When you first posted some of the pics, I didn't there could be enough worthy causes around.  Some of those aluminum mallet putters look pretty good -- they usually get all dinged up.

I think I am going to put the buzz on other schools in the area. The director of industrial arts wants to try to build something with them, as well
Who know? Maybe I will run out of clubs....naaaah.
Golf your ball
Uncle Bob

[Ironmaster Oddities]

I just worked out a gift to my local school corp. they picked up, probably 2/3 of the hoard.  
Over 110 full sets, 350 bags
2-3,000 loose balls
several shag bas full of balls
350-400 metal wood
A couple hundred putters
250-300 club head covers,many in sets
Over 200 sorted persimmon woods
250 sorted wedges.
4000 loose clubs. Maybe 6000... I don't  know for sure
They are going to work out something for the art and industrial arts depts to do some cool stuff.
Their golf team is going to have a giant golf "garage" sale as a fund raiser
Most of the full sets will be used for the golf programs the school system is going to add to the phys Ed departments in middle and high schools.
I still have a couple hundred  sets of irons, metal woods ,putters and wedges to give to two other organizations. Kind of a warm,fuzzy,feel good things to do. And I still found more vintage clubs than  handle.. With a little luck, I can get the rest of this stuff to them in the next few weeks.
Uncle Bob

[Nspiel58]

Bob.  The greatest sign of a heroic man is his ability to give what he has to others.

[guisician]

You've made a lot of people happy. Great job, Uncle Bob!!

[teevons]

I bet the warehouse looks a little different?

[Ironmaster Oddities]

Here are some quick shots of a few of the drivers from the Niles Hoard. Now that I can upload from my ipad I will start posting again.  Enjoy.
Uncle Bob

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[guisician]

That is some deep-faced mojo right there!

[Ironmaster Oddities]

guisician, on 14 March 2013 - 07:13 AM, said:

That is some deep-faced mojo right there!

The third driver with the monster face is Louisville golf personal model. The face is about 2 inches!
I will try to post more pics one these drivers. Maybe I can edit that post, and add them there

[Degenerate_1]

Wow this was/is an awesome thread. Unbelievable really. Sucks it got picked prior to your arrival. "Follow this topic", um yes.

[stixman]

Degenerate_1, on 20 May 2013 - 09:28 AM, said:

Wow this was/is an awesome thread. Unbelievable really. Sucks it got picked prior to your arrival. "Follow this topic", um yes.

Que??

[Ironmaster Oddities]

Degenerate_1, on 20 May 2013 - 09:28 AM, said:

Wow this was/is an awesome thread. Unbelievable really. Sucks it got picked prior to your arrival. "Follow this topic", um yes.

hopefully more posts next week as I wind down toward the end. No doubt it was picked over, especially the putters. But it has been a rush anyway. I could still open a museum.  No true "10's" in the lot. But a  few solid  9's and a plethora of  and 8's.

Uncle Bob