Trophy disc made from wood.

[FernValleyDGC]

I was wondering if anyone has seen a wooden disc used as a golf trophy. I made a few for a local tournament and they went over well. Here are a few pics of what I made so ya know what I am talking about. I made branding irons for first second etc... The numbers are branded into the wood. Ace is painted on.

Is there a market for something like this?

 

[Vegan Ray]

When I first saw the title of this thread, I read the "o"s in the last word as "e"s. I was purty excited to see the pics.

Anyway. West Virginia Open has kick-arse wooden disc trophies, as well as kick-arse wooden fundraiser minis available for purchase.

http://www.westvirginiaopen.com/sponsorship1.htm

Scroll down the page to see photos.

 

[dirtydmix]

I would deff use a mini one for my mini. those are sweet.

 

[billnchristy]

I like them.

 

[drkstr]

I played in my first tournament this summer at Lake Steven, WA and they had wood disc trophies for first place in all divisions. Really nice. The trophies came from this site ~ http://www.displayyourdisc.com/
check out their gallery ~ http://www.displayyourdisc.com/galleryoftrophies.html

 

[Jaysus]

One of the guys from our club actually made some from a tree that fell down on our course - they were the awards for one of the tournies over the summer. I think they turned out pretty darned sweet.

More:
http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/BWCC/GPC2009/IMG_6041.jpg
http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/BWCC/GPC2009/IMG_6044.jpg
http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/BWCC/GPC2009/IMG_6042.jpg

 

[bazillion]

Seems to me there's somebody advertising these for sale in the PDGA mag ... still, a little competition never hurt anybody

 

[harr0140]

This one is made out of wood, but has a photo glazed on top which is pretty cool.

 

[bongripper0420]

Those look really nice. I would love to win one of those.

 

[Usher]

I like...

 

[grass_stain]

do you model them after putters, mid-range, or drivers. how well do they throw?

 

[billnchristy]

Not a disc, but I am working on this as a trophy for our BYOP Mixed Doubles I run. It is completely free so I couldn't spend a lot on it.

Still has some cleanup work but you get the idea.

 

[bikinjack]

Not a disc, but I am working on this as a trophy for our BYOP Mixed Doubles I run. It is completely free so I couldn't spend a lot on it.

Still has some cleanup work but you get the idea.

Awesome!

I mean Awesomesauce!

 

[solomon.trenton]

I like...

me too. what kind of wood did you use?

 

[Throws Eagles]

One of our local players donates sweet wood mini's as weekly CTP prizes for our leagues. He's also made them for tournament prizes. Here's a few, not so good, pictures of the 6 that I own. The profiles are cut to match the real discs & the art work on top is hand carved. IMO they don't quite give the art work justice....my camera sucks.

He's also made full size replicas.

 

[peteg]

I work at a shop called the Wright Life in Colorado, we do wooden trophy discs like this:

We also do ultra-star shaped ultimate trophies and fastback shaped disc dog trophies. This one is from last year's Grateful Disc tournament. I can't find a picture of this year's Colorado State Championship trophy, but it was also really sweet.

 

[solomon.trenton]

One of our local players donates sweet wood mini's as weekly CTP prizes for our leagues. He's also made them for tournament prizes. Here's a few, not so good, pictures of the 6 that I own. The profiles are cut to match the real discs & the art work on top is hand carved. IMO they don't quite give the art work justice....my camera sucks.

He's also made full size replicas.

any ideas on how he does it?

 

[billnchristy]

I know craftsman has a wood cnc engraver.

That Roc is sweeeeeeet.

 

[solomon.trenton]

I know craftsman has a wood cnc engraver.

That Roc is sweeeeeeet.

now if only i won the lottery

 

[Throws Eagles]

any ideas on how he does it?

He uses a lathe to shape the top & the profile. Cuts it off then finishes carving out the bottom by hand so it's like a real disc. The artwork for the tops are painstakingly traced from a piece of paper & carved by hand. Most of them have the art carved into the wood (below the surface). For some of them the art is raised above the surface, like the one that says "DISC GOLF" (again though, the detail is sorta hard to see).