Wood shafts that don't require tip trimming?

Hoss7504 · 2017-02-20T02:58:01+00:00

Just picked up a couple Kuro Kage wood shafts from DTG and the tip trimming instructions they point to says that no tip trimming is necessary for 3W, 4W, or...

Hoss7504

Weirfan

I need higher launch with my swing so I don't think I'll be tipping these bad boys.

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Hoss7504

That would be a good experiment.
Save a half an inch on the butt end so later on you could trim the tip to length or trim the butt to length after you tried it out.

Release

Paderson shafts also are butt trim to length
http://padersonshafts.com/index.php

Hoss7504

I reshafted the 3W w/o tip trimming and it worked great. Doesn't feel soft or anything. I think I'll trim 1/2" for the 5W though, just in case.

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Hoss7504

Don't do it, if you like the 3 wood without tip trim.
Leave the 5 wood shaft 3/4" longer than you like. If it's too flexible then pull the shaft and tip off 1/2".
If it play good ( which I think will be the case ) then blow off the grip and trim to length .

I had seen both in sets of fairway woods and hybrids where the flex played different, because of the what you're thinking of. 5 wood will be shorter than the 3 wood so it'd play stiffer with shorter length anyway.

Hoss7504

Release

Good call. Thanks for the advice! I'll be putting all that together over the weekend and hoping for the weather to start cooperating 🌅

wishbone

If I recall correctly, I think I saw on Amazon Tim is now in North Carolina

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wishbone
Some info on social media also indicated that he is back . I guess not rubbing shoulders with the guys because his component business has been put on hold for years. May never come back now.

Rickochet

Weirfan Tim Hewitt said many times that graphite shafts today ( this was 6-7 years ago) are so stable in the tip that they do not require tip trimming like in the days gone by. He would joke that companies would actually publish them because if they didn't that people wouldn't believe them and they would be flooded with calls asking what the tip trim was.

I remember Tim saying that about the Mercury brand of shafts, but I am not sure it applied to all shafts.

Sneakylong

Any UST shaft I've got required no tip trimming.

Provisional

Hoss7504
Saw this older thread and wondered how the untipped 3 wood shafts worked for you if you've had chance to hit them .
I just finished the reshafting of an old TM 200 Steel I've had for yrs. With a GD YS6 shaft Ode gave me and I just butt trimmed it, wanting softer flex & higher trajectory for geezer golf speeds . Set the swing weight to D3. Going to range today to hit mine, hopefully epoxy is ready.

Rickochet

Provisional I just finished the reshafting of an old TM 200 Steel I've had for yrs. With a GD YS6 shaft Ode gave me and I just butt trimmed it, wanting softer flex & higher trajectory for geezer golf speeds . Set the swing weight to D3. Going to range today to hit mine, hopefully epoxy is ready.

The range will tell all. It is all about getting the right feel for you. I stuck a Harrison Mugen in a DTG 4 wood head untipped and it is absolutely perfect for me.

Hoss7504

Provisional

I took the 3W out a couple times and it feels completely normal. It is no softer than any shaft I had to tip trim for a 3W. The trajectory is even true to the shaft specs (mid).

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Hoss7504
Like I posted on another thread , played 18 yesterday and best I've ever hit a 3 wood . Not as high a trajectory as I'd like, but very straight and good feel. The old 200 Steel TM again still has it. And 42.5" assembled length works too. Graphite design ys6 pull from Ode left uptipped is nice . Not boardy at all, old Tmag stiff was.

Bankshot

I could give you a bunch of shit for using the word 'normal' in reference to your game, Dave...but I won't! 🙂

Hoss7504

Bankshot

I said it feels normal, not that I hit it well 😞 . I'm a lawyer, remember. It's all about semantics...

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