"Golfball" Dimple Texture - How?

[base64]

How can one press a golfball dimple pattern into a G10 or plastic material? I would like to achieve a similar effect to these grips:



I've seen various tools for checkering or dimpling by hand but it seems these were done in some kind of stamp or press. How do they do it?

[kcstott]

No stamp or press, they were molded in that way when the part was made.

[6mmintl]

G10 is glass filled or cloth fiberglass and resin, you not going to press any dimples into it unless you like fiberglass splinters in your hand, but you can machine dimples with a 1/32" carbide end mill and a rotary indexable fixture slowly row by row, cheaper to buy made/or injection molded grip panels.

[base64]

G10 is glass filled or cloth fiberglass and resin, you not going to press any dimples into it unless you like fiberglass splinters in your hand, but you can machine dimples with a 1/32" carbide end mill and a rotary indexable fixture slowly row by row, cheaper to buy made/or injection molded grip panels.

Makes sense, I'll probably end up carving some finger grooves in the sheets I have now and next time pre-made panels. Thanks!