All the golf balls that I have been able to find have ads plastered all over. This limits the drawing area.

Anyone know if golf balls without ads written on them are available?

fdastoor

As I was sure they existed since I've seen outfits which will make personalized ones using "blanks", I tried searching google for "blank golf balls". Sure enough, got some hits. For example, go to www.golfballs.com and enter "blank golf balls" in their search tool. They seem to carry them.
(I'm not a golfer and I have no experience with golfballs.com.)

Dan

Alternate strategy: contact companies that sell custom-printed golf balls and ask if they'll sell some of their blanks.

It is also possible to remove markings from standard commercial golf balls, with varying degrees of ease and effectiveness, depending on the process.

- Perhaps with chemicals-- graffiti removers might work, but I haven't tried them. (Could soften the outer plastic, too, depending on the chemistry.)

- It's definitely possible to remove the marks mechanically. You could...
-- Use a buffing wheel with abrasive buffing compound
-- Use a tabletop sandblaster ( "bead blaster" )
-- Use regular old sandpaper by hand
-- Use a rock tumbler or (better) a vibratory polisher.

For methods like sandpaper or the sandblaster, it might be necessary to follow that with a polishing stage, either a buffing wheel or some time in the vibratory polisher. For the least amount of effort, I would guess that just dropping some balls in a vibratory polisher with finely crushed walnut shell media would work well, both removing the paint and leaving a clean finish.

While I won't go out on a limb for an endorsement of harbor freight, let me just point to a couple of examples of what I was referring to in the last post:


http://www.harborfreight.com/5-lb-metal-vibrator-tumbler-67617.html
http://www.harborfreight.com/25-lbs-fine-grade-walnut-shell-blast-media-92155.html