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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
That's funny. Two of the best golfers on our team in the same time period had Eye 2s.
You should be able to get a set of + no + for around $200, but my recommendation would run you a little more than that. Before the i3s came out, Ping used a tumbled finish on all of their irons. From the i3s on, they use a finish called Guyson, which is a blasted media finish.
There is a guy on ebay named llgolf. He refinishes Ping irons using the tumbled process for $13 a club, plus shipping.
I mention this for two reasons:
1) He does an absolutely masterful job
2) If you still have your ISI Nickels, Ping won't touch them. Due to EPA restrictions, they won't work on anything with beryllium in them (this includes the BeCu irons as well) due to the risk of berylliosis and cancer from the inhalation of dust particles.
Overall, I'd expect to spend about $300, but the clubs you get will look factory new. Pings are known for being nearly indestructible.
He'll take a set that looks like this:
And when he's done, they'll look like this:
From there, find a shaft that you like (Pings take a .355 taper shaft; I put TT Black Golds in them), and you're off to go.
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Looks like a really great job they do restoring them and I'm fairly interested now.
I sold my ISI nickles years ago to buy some Titlest set I never really liked. Even those were indestructible and looked nearly new at the time. Tough to say if they were the best iron I'd played since my swing was fairly better 10 years ago. Only thing I disliked was the offset.