The Forge

Nine out. Nine in. The oldest rhythm in golf, and the last 120 yards are where it's decided.

Two Wedges, One Bench

We make two wedges. They play the same three lofts with the same bounce in each. What changes is the steel, the look, the feel, and how many we make. We'd rather lay that out here than let the word "forged" do work it hasn't earned.

The Damascus is forged start to finish in our Colorado workshop. One smith, one anvil, one head at a time. It begins as a single solid billet of layered 1020 carbon Damascus steel: not a casting, not a machined blank. It's forge-heated, shaped under the hammer, ground and grooved by hand, then stamped with its forge number and entered in the ledger. One hundred heads a year, and no more.

The 1020 carbon is drop-forged overseas to our drawing and spec, from a solid billet, by a forging partner we chose for the quality of the forging. It arrives in Colorado as bare stock. Here it is hand-stamped with the touchmark, then finish-ground by hand before it ships. Drawn here, finished here, forged elsewhere. Always available, and not numbered.

Both are drop-forged from solid billet. Neither is cast. The Damascus is the statement piece and comes off the face dense and solid. The carbon is the gamer and plays a touch softer. The price reflects where the hammer falls.

Why Damascus

The layered steel does what marketing never has to: it proves the work. Grinding reveals the pattern, and because the layers move differently in every billet, no two faces pattern alike. Yours exists exactly once. The RAW finish lets the steel age honestly, developing friction and a patina that's yours alone.

Why Made to Order

We don't stock shelves. Each wedge is commissioned, then forged or finished in small batches, which is why we ask for 3–4 weeks, and why we say it plainly: good things take time.

The best equipment doesn't ask for attention. It earns trust, shot after shot.
Colorado, USA

The Forge

One smith. One anvil. One head at a time.
Nine out. Nine in. The oldest rhythm in golf — and the last 120 yards are where it is decided.
The Workshop

Forged, not manufactured

Project Nine wedges are not made in a factory. They are made in a Colorado workshop — one smith, one anvil, one head at a time.

Every head begins as a single solid billet. Not a casting. Not a machined blank. It is forge-heated until it moves, shaped under the hammer, ground and grooved by hand, then stamped with its forge number and entered in the batch record.

The mountain air is thinner up here. The standards are not.
Two Steels

Same wedge. Your choice of steel.

We forge the same head from two materials. Damascus is layered 1020 carbon — compressed and folded so the grinding reveals a pattern that exists in no other wedge on earth. 1020 carbon is that same steel, clean and unlayered: no pattern, no ceremony, and the soft dense feel that made forged wedges worth forging.

Same shape. Same grind. Same hands. The steel is the only thing that changes.

One is the heirloom. One is the gamer. Both are ours.
The Finish

RAW means it will rust

Both wedges ship RAW: bare steel, no plating, no chrome, no clear coat. They will rust. Oxidation starts within the first few rounds and deepens over time into a patina shaped by your climate, your hands, and your turf.

We do not consider this a flaw to be disclosed. It is the finish we chose. A raw face grips the ball, and the steel keeps a record of the rounds you have played. Wipe it dry, oil it occasionally, and the patina becomes yours rather than the weather's.

A wedge that never changes was never used.
The Standard

Why made to order

We do not stock shelves. Each wedge is commissioned, forged, and hand-finished in small batches — which is why we ask for three to four weeks, and why we say it plainly rather than dressing it up.

A wedge that waits in a warehouse was made for nobody. Yours is made for you, and the ledger records the day it happened.

Allow three to four weeks. Good things take time.
From Billet to Bag

Five Stages. Two Hands.

Every Project Nine wedge passes through the same fire, in the same order, under the same eyes — whichever steel you choose.
I

The Billet

1020 carbon — layered for Damascus, clean for carbon

Every wedge begins as one solid billet — not a casting, not a machined blank. For Damascus, the layers that will become your face pattern are already inside it, waiting for the fire. For carbon, the steel is clean and quiet from the start.

II

The Fire

Forge-heated until it moves like clay

The billet goes into the forge and comes out glowing. Heat is what lets steel be persuaded — and it is where a mass-produced head and a hand-forged one part ways forever.

III

The Anvil

Shaped by hammer · one head at a time

Under the hammer, the billet becomes a head: hosel drawn, sole set, profile trued by eye and experience. No two hammer sessions are identical — which is the point.

IV

The Grind

Faces ground and grooved by hand

Grinding sets the bounce and finishes the face that will meet the ball. On a Damascus head, this is also the moment the pattern first shows itself — layers opening under the belt, yours and no one else's.

V

The Mark

Forge-numbered · entered in the ledger

Finished heads are stamped with the forge mark and their number, then logged in the batch record — Damascus or carbon, the same ledger holds them both. When yours ships, it already knows it. Provenance, not packaging.

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The Workshop

Forged on the Front Range

Project Nine wedges aren't made in a factory. They're made in a Colorado workshop — one smith, one anvil, one head at a time. The mountain air is thinner up here; the standards aren't. Every head is forged, ground, and finished by the same hands that stamp its number.

Designed in Colorado. Forged in Colorado. Felt everywhere.
Two Steels

One Wedge. Two Materials.

Same shape. Same grind. Same hands. Choose the face you want to look down at.
Coming Soon

Damascus RAW

The heirloom.

Layered 1020 carbon, folded and compressed. Grinding reveals a pattern that exists in no other wedge — yours exactly once.

FaceLayered · no two alike
FinishRAW · will rust
From$185 head · $255 complete
See the Damascus
Coming Soon

1020 Carbon RAW

The gamer.

The same head in clean carbon steel. No pattern, no ceremony — just the soft, dense feel that made forged wedges worth forging.

FaceClean carbon · no pattern
FinishRAW · will rust
From$165 head · $225 complete
See the Carbon
A word on RAW

Both wedges ship RAW — bare steel, no plating, no clear coat. They will rust. Oxidation begins within the first few rounds and deepens into a patina shaped by your climate, your hands, and your turf. That is the point: a raw face grips the ball, and the finish keeps a record of the rounds you have played.