EdChoi Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 Being an equipment whore, I always like messing around with clubs that I have lying around and such. I found this old wood head three wood in my basement and wanted to reshaft it and give it a try. I like small headed fairway woods so I wanted to mess around with this head for fun during the offseason. Here is a pic of the type of head, granted it is the honma lb-280 spoon three wood, not the driver shown here (took pic off of google) There would have to be a custom boring job for this kind of head to put in a solid fairway shaft correct? Joe, do you think you would be able to have the time to do something like this? Or any other vendors here? In terms of shaft, I am not quite sure what kind of shaft to put in, but was looking for a heavy graphite shaft, been playing steel in my fairway woods all my life. Any suggestions? SS for a three wood is in low 100s, with more a swinger than hitter. This is my first post here, found this board through GO.com and I hope to be around here a lot and hope to get my hands on some cool equipment :love: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey3108 Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 I don't think you want to do that. WHY? 1. The old days of Honma, they bought a wood block from a American vendor who gave them a second quality wood ( we don't know which one is yours). After a while they found out why their head doesn't last long . It cracked easily. 2. After a while sitting in your garage w/ humidity and temperature changes, I don't think the wood are in the same strenght anymore. 3. For me to reshaft it is not a problem at all. however I have to buy the whole roll of whipping, special ferrule for it and to refinish the head if i have to adjust the swing weight ( I have to open the sole plate to be able to do this ). Imagine all this trouble just only to do 1 golf club, I'm up to it if you are willing to take care of all parts required on this project and off course labor fee. I'm sure there are other clubmaker still doing this type of job, but it's getting rarer and rarer. IMO, it's to much trouble and risk to do it for you. For me, I make $$$ either way... but I don't want to make money without informing you all risk involve to it. Cheers! Joe :cool: ps: I'm sure it will be very nice and let's hope that the head will not crack after 2 rounds. :smile1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowpro Posted November 3, 2004 Report Share Posted November 3, 2004 it's a good winter project** that will drive ya crazy... like joe said -- it can be done.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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