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Looks almost lke a carbon sticker? Or is it an insert?

Well, for small "boutique" brands such as Yururi the initial capital cost of setting up a forging mold or several of them in fact is just to prohibitively expensive. They would then need to produce (I guess) thousands of iron sets or wedges before even getting a return on the initial investment, like the large OEMs do. The other way is to have a small team of dedicated craftsmen grind out the head shape and grind, but this can never be scaled up with any hope of keeping the consistency any good. It's a specialist job I guess. So they are kind of "stuck" with producing a limited number of clubs. Scaling up would mean a huge investment in molds/dies or trying to train a large number of people how to grind..Both these options are usually out of reach for small makers.

Yeah..I guess the shaft pushthe price right up there

I think what you said is exactly what I said? Mass produced = only a few finishing touches and polishing etc are left to be done. The grind, topline etc is pre-programmed into the casting or forging process. Consistency will be great. Handmade clubs will have their sole grind, topline and even shape modified/grinded out on a grind wheel after the initial forging or casting. A person actually grinds out the sole shape, heel/toe relief, leading egde grind etc by hand. This takes a certain skill and especially time. "Handmade" clubs are of course forged/cast first, it's not like somebody is standing there pounding the steel with a hammer. Handmade refers to the process of a person shaping the already forged/cast head by hand.

I'm interested too, this looks good.

James Patrick. Is he with Titleist Japan? Thought he did his own stuff. Edit: Yes he went to Titleist Japan

Mass Produced :The grind is pre-programmed in the press or casting machine, and especially if the club is precision forged there is more or less mostly polishing and stamping left to do. This is great for consistency and doesn't require skilled craftsmen/women to grind out the final shape, just a "normal worker" with little training can do it. A handmade club comes of the forging press "overweight" as a raw clubhead with no grind, then a skilled person grinds out the desired grind, leading edge etc etc, this takes much more skill and takes time. A lot of human work is involved, every club will come out ever so slightly different to the next one. And you can often see the actual work has been done by hand. The yururi blades and wedges, especially the raw stuff, are a great example, no mass production factory could make clubs looking like that.

Great deals, too bad the shafts are all "wrong" for me. Lofts?

Epon has a worldwide sales network if I'm not mistaken? There is even a "Epon North America" webpage, so Epon is not JDM at all.

Make sure it's changed on the OnOff "brand page" too. It's still listed as 4-pw there.

One thing in the pro shop though, the listing says 4-pw but then you can click on "extra clubs" there is still an upcharge for "4-iron".

These look really good for a GI, clean. Kinda what you'd expect from the major OEMs with their Tour Only or "B" series GIs that contracted players tout on tour as being "the same" as the stuff at Golf Galaxy. Only we can buy it and get the same stuff the JPGA tour players use without having to deal with some "it fell of the tour van" murky guy.

Remeber these irons, hit them at a range back in the day and remember I decided I'd get these..These still cost a pretty penny used here in Thailand and also in Japan, usually around 550-600 USD in a lot worse condition than the ones here, and with steel shafts. These, fitted with Aerotechs and the wedges is an insane deal. GLWS

OnOff and others should hire you to take their photos Chris! TSG always give you the angles you want to see, and in perfect light too.

Gotta say this is an amazing deal, quality stuff all around. Seriously, could just put this stuff in my bag and be ready to go. Not only a good place to start, but also to end up in! GLWS

My friend has the older model, they are really soft feeling and forgiving. A bit on the large side with noticeable offset. Friendly sums it up

What's the 5-iron length?

P-tune?

That's a MP Craft H4 in the photos, a 440cc head. Not the 425. The 425 and 425+ also don't/didn't come in a P version.

Sometimes long drive heads are reinforced/thicker faced in order to not cave in after a few hits. This means they often don't have max allowed COR, so only REALLY fast swingers get good results out of them

I've seen this shaft in Japan too a couple of times. I thought is was some sort if swing/tempo training aid first. But the assembled clubs were standing among other "regular" clubs

Looks really cool

That's really cheap!

Yeah, my buddy went from hitting mostly pretty weak fades to much straighter with the Long Tom, which is 48" I believe, and with a pretty soft shaft.

So FRANKI is kinda like the skunk works or the AMG of Mitsubishi?