If anyone tries this, you can check your work -- depth and width -- with a common set of automotive wire gauges.
Burgess (never surgeoned a vascule in my entire life)
At 05:54 PM 2/4/2004, you wrote:
Not to belabor this but, even though the discs are .025" there's enough wobble in the mandrel, chuck, and the operator's hand to dig a trench that's considerably greater than 1/32". Arnie says he built a fixture that allows for a straight line. That probably works just fine. But I don't believe, having tried it myself several times, that a person can etch a groove freehand to the width and depth required by USGA rules. But then, I ain't a vascular surgeon.
> At 12:08 PM 2/4/2004, you wrote: > >...As for which dremel disc to use, well, all of them are about the same > >thickness, which is thicker than the USGA rules allow. > > The maximum groove width defined in the Rules of Golf is 0.035" > http://www.usga.org/rules/books/rules/appendix_II.html > > A Dremel #409 wheel is 0.025" thick and can cut a conforming groove > http://www.dremel.com/productdisplay/bit_template.asp?SKU=409 > > With the proper fixture, you could also probably use Dremel bits #105, > #108, and #111. > http://www.dremel.com/html/products/accessories/carving.html
