New clubheads

Tinker · 2017-01-23T21:56:30+00:00

Anyone have any thoughts on most of the component companies going away and the ones that are left putting out very few new clubhead designs

LBlack14

sdandrea1

Now it lets me, wtf? Where'd you get the shafts?

sdandrea1

LBlack14

Golfworks. R flex, 83g

Par4QC

sdandrea1 83 gr., eh?? Best I have a looksee at those.

Par4QC

Provisional Built me a set of those many years ago; absolutely beautiful clubs. So much so, that I sold them off for fear of embarrassing them on course. Never hit them!

LBlack14

Par4QC

The Dynacraft cb's or the HH?

Provisional

Par4QC Looked hard for forged CB lob and sand wedge that had classic look to kind of go with my MP 57 s. Saw the Hatton/DTG on flea bay had to have it. Sand wedge still looking, using free lost and found Hogan Edge which I re shafted from ladies graphite to DG S300 with shaft pull I bought donor club @ Play it Again shop here. Would love to find SW mate someday accufitgolf

Par4QC

LBlack14 HH's.
Bought them off an Ebay seller in CA., but they were shipped from DeKalb. At that time, never heard of DTG. Had a problem with getting sent the wrong PW and had to ship it to DTG as they did ship out the correct one. This was many years ago & where I learned about 'dropshipping' companies.(the seller in CA probably never even seen any of the heads)

ode

Hopefully they only charged you shipping from DeKalb.

Par4QC

ode Tell ya the truth, been so long ago I really can't say for sure. It was well before I met up with all you whores on FGI.

ode

Haha.

LogicalOne

Things certainly have changed compared to what it was like 10-15 years ago. I do enjoy thinking about those days, however. It was a lot of fun. Forum activity, club-building, club-trading, club-fitting, buying/selling, the excitement of the new year and release of new club-heads, reports from the PGA show....everything was at a high. I even found an old shipping box a few weeks back when I was going through old 'golf stuff', from none other than @Par4QC . 🙂 I am guessing that was from about 10 years ago or so. Good times!

accufitgolf

Tinker

It is not that component suppliers wanted to go away but the market (lack of actually) drove them out of the business. There were several reasons the market died:

Ease of Internet in that people started seeing the cost of things and few were going to pay a clubmaker what he wanted regardless of the clubmakers overhead, club fitting ability, etc. People were not going to pay say $500 for a custom made, custom fitted set of irons when they saw the component cost was $200.
Ease of Internet to learn how to do things that prior to that, only a clubmaker knew how to do.
Ease of Internet to find some garage/cellar clubmaker who would undercut pricing of someone with a shop.
OEM's short product cycles making for cheap pricing on new OEM product from 6 months ago. Got to the point you could buy new OEM product from 6 months ago and modify it to fit you cheaper than having a quality component club built.
The general decline in golf do to it being a time consuming and expensive hobby.

There are more reasons but the above came to me first.

sdandrea1

accufitgolf

That just leaves us tinkerers who like the hobby of building our own. Hope there's enough of us.

Par4QC

Provisional Might give DTG a call and ask them to rummage around. They might find one hidden somewhere in a back room.

BogeySwine

I've built two sets of irons for myself in the past fifteen years. Three drivers for friends, two drivers and three fairways for myself in the last eight years! I only built for friends or friends of friends. Never wanted it to be a job or source of income. Just a great hobby that had reasonable costs. Anything we do in life continues to increase in price. I've built clubs for our kids and now have grandkids who will start playing this summer! Life goes on, hope to see the new generation on the courses!

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