Comments on: Golf Ball in a Block of Wood

By: Dan Brady

Dan Brady — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:23:00 +0000

Let dry completely. Insert ball in a zip lock sandwich baggie and seal, Then stain the wood with an oil based stain with the ball not being affected. Water-based stain may raise the grain of your nicely sanded block. Do the same with water based finish. You can actually hang the block to dry using a wooden cloths pin or small clamp on baggie. From experience, Early American or lighter brown toned stain, with satin polycrylic is my go-to.

By: Dan Brady

Dan Brady — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:14:40 +0000

In reply to Gene. Place palm of one hand over ball. Place other hand over that hand, like CPR compressions. Press down firmly. Don"t be shy. Key is soaking wood long enough, I've tried a shorter time and cracked the edge.

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:32:23 +0000

My friend followed you and gave me 2. But even with very long hot bath I can not force ball out. Any suggestions

By: Murray Miller

Murray Miller — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 04:19:32 +0000

Did you make a guitar pick holder box?!

By: Roger Blais

Roger Blais — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:12:24 +0000

In reply to blindman03. I have found that the first few take longer to make. Once you have those done the others take less time and you can even sort of create a production/assembly line setup. I will try this golf ball project.

By: Frank Townsend

Frank Townsend — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 02:38:53 +0000

I made several only a little longer and put a plack on it for hole in one golf balls.People said they had just threw their rair balls in some out of the way place and no one ever saw it.Now they set out where everyone can see it.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 09:24:49 +0000

Is the Youtube video on the drill press in real time? I am just asking because I needed much much longer to drill through my piece (I used some soft wood). My forstner bit was new but fairly cheap.
Also the lateral forces were quite high. I had to clamp it down. In the video you just hold it with your hand…there seems to be almost no effort to hold it?!
Also I couldn’t just clean up the little spikes standing out with the forstner bit. Just hitting a little piece caused way to much lateral force – even the clamping down wasn’t enough. Does that mean my forstner bit is very bad? Can’t be just because I used different wood I think. Maybe my wood was not 100% dry?

By: Mike Hague

Mike Hague — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:34:29 +0000

I have made a number of these using a lot of different woods from Red Oak to Black Walnut all insides cut on a scroll saw Just needs to Boil longer the harder the wood.

By: Eric Duminil

Eric Duminil — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 11:19:52 +0000

Third time’s a charm! I broke one block and butchered another but the third block came out just fine.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful project. It wasn’t easy to keep the wooden block in place, so I stuck it between two rails with the exact spacing.
I did it in Europe. For info: 13cm * 4.5cm *4.5cm, with 2cm on either side and 30mm (a bit smaller than 1-1/4″) Forstner bit worked out just fine.

I wonder if the golf ball gets noticeably smaller when frozen. This might help to make the holes even smaller.

Cheers!

By: Bob Boyle

Bob Boyle — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:58:59 +0000

I didn’t have the right size bit, so I did the cutting with a scroll saw. Worked out well. This was my first attempt, didn’t have the correct size wood, so glued 2 pieces together then cut to size. Worked, but now there is a seam, which looks like 2 pieces glued together??!!??!!
Learn by trial and error, off to the lumber store.