Metal breakdown

[supo]

chris, thtas exactly what my clubbuilder said to me about sst puring my shafts

he asked why i did it , i sad ah bec its better(?)

he bahumbugged me said NO one in japan does it, i dont think theres actiually a machine here that does it , eres no need.

i got a set of ns 1050 shafts done a while back and the differnce in the positioning of the logo after doing it was quite marked form where the straight logo positioning was spossed to be. un pured.

the ball flight on these shafts is really very very straight.

can i notice a diffence ?

not sure. i jsut know that these particular shafts are very straight flighted. but i cant say for sure if tis more of less than others.

iknow it cost me a fair bit to do and i havnt rushed out and got any more done.

and i wont be in the future.

[+TourSpecGolfer]

I've never really experimented with spine align in steel. It really depends on how it's made some shafts are seamless starting as a large cylinder of steel while others are welded tube construction starting as a flat strip then welded into a tube. I usually just go logo up. Yes for sure keeping everything the same in irons would be best I think.

[Shambles]

I've never really experimented with spine align in steel. It really depends on how it's made some shafts are seamless starting as a large cylinder of steel while others are welded tube construction starting as a flat strip then welded into a tube. I usually just go logo up. Yes for sure keeping everything the same in irons would be best I think.

Offhand, I suspect that spine alignment that involves seeing the logo off center on the label is going to be unsatisfactory more often. The search for uniformity in club performance, sound and feel very much involves what the golfer is looking at especially where the golfer is relatively new to the game, regardless of how much progress he has made, or how far he can hit the ball. There is just too much to be learned for anyone who is not totally immersed in the business to be able to learn without the perspective of time and experience. We choose our gods and we worship accordingly because we do not have the willingness, time and money to invest in becoming a god. My own gods are Wishon and Frank Thomas, but I must admit that their expressed thoughts are similar to my own so my decision was easy.

Design these days is much more complicated than in Golf's early days. Golf's early days was a lot of creative marketing of the same old, same old. There was little the designer could do because he was severely limited in materials, space and weight allocation. These days the designer has much more space and weight to play with because of the availability of different materials and their positioning. The market's acceptance of exotic materials, strange constructions and willingness to spend much much more has given the designer a marvelous playground. More so because he can now program a computer to do the what ifs and why nots and see the numbers reflected in a very short time. What used to take a year can now be done in a month.

Design differences do matter, provided the player is good enough to benefit. Material also matters, provided the player can see and feel a benefit worth the cost, and that worth varies with the player's need for the difference he discovers. The bottom line is still, are you good enough to reap the benefit if it's there to be reaped by you ? The market is also flooded with a lot of fancy garbage and buying needs a lot more thought these days than in the past.

Shambles