An engineering student at Nelson Mandela University developed their own custom 3d printed putter! The putter metal portion of the putter head is made through laser powder bed fusion and the polymer weights are made through fused filament fabrication. Golf clubs are almost always purchased off-the-shelf, or else expert golfers obtaining custom clubs face limited options for customizability and long waits to obtain them. Competitive golfer and engineering student Wian van Aswegen of Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, saw additive manufacturing as a way to not only expand the range of possibilities for customizing clubs, but also speed and simplify manufacturing them. His tailor-made putter, developed with AM service provider Rapid3D, uses metal AM for the angles and detail of the club head and hosel, combined with polymer AM pieces to obtain the desired overall mass and mass distribution. Van Aswegen and his advisor Clive Hands talk about the customizable putter. This episode brought to you by Carpenter Additive. https://www.carpenteradditive.com/ #engineering #manufacturing #metal3dprinting