Next project Ping Eye 2 refurbishing

mulegolf

Green Dot, Red Dot, Black Dot. What color is actually considered standard specs? I guess I never knew what color signified what loft/lie combination.

azgreg

mulegolf

sdandrea1

Provisional

Yes, .355t, unless someone bored them out to .370. If you pulled a ZZ Lite shaft, it's. 355t

Provisional

sdandrea1
Pw is eye+ but I'm liking turf interaction it has. When I get some decent grips on them. I'll be able to tell more but I think I've already decided I like the clubs. Tried 3 iron on a lark , don't believe I can go back to them.

Provisional

sdandrea1
Value G has set of Star grips and ProSofts for my little red eyes on their way. Old Ping shafts will have to suffice for now. I want to beat some balls . Need for instant gratification indicative of deficiency in character strength???

sdandrea1

Provisional Need for instant gratification indicative of deficiency in character strength???

If that's the case, my character is one weak bastage........................

Provisional

sdandrea1 loft. Lie chart. Have no lies

Thought it'd list for black dot for starting point since all colors of lie reference it.

mulegolf

Thanks azreg for the Ping chart. I know I saw it years ago but couldn't remember what was what.

Provisional

Took my junkyard Ping red eye 2s out for a round today. Couldn't wait for the new grips. Had one of my best striking days with them both on parr 3s and approaches. Worn out slick hard small grips but still managed some decent play. Hopefully honeymoon will continue when I put on the new grips. Was one under for first 4 holes, then I started getting excited 😊
Still trying to determine/settle into the distances the "new" eye 2s will fly for me. Their directional control seems to be good so far. Mostly nice divots, moved ball forward as was suggested to help eliminate steep swing digging. Think I only took one pelt today. Newly shafted G15/Bassara driver and OLD Tmag 200 Steel /GD YS6 three wood (thx Ode) behaved better too. my best day ever with any three wood . Shot one over my best index from three years ago (dim history) even conquered last two holes with long water carries. No tribute for Poisidon today, although Druids got a couple I admit.
Hope honeymoon lasts forever!

sdandrea1

Pulled the shafts on mine. Repainted the fill and cleaned the hosels. Going graphite.

Typhoon

Nice..makes me wonder if some of the issues I had with mine over the last couple years were shaft related. I have the Brunswick Microtaper in them. I'd never pull them...keep the coppers original. Heck, I would only clean them with soap and water.

Nice Patina.

limpalong

Typhoon
The Brunswick Microtapers were similar to having 1/2" galvanized pipe as a shaft. Karsten sent out most of the Eye 2 BeCu irons with the Microtaper. He used the ZZ Lite in the SS heads. Why the difference? I'm sure he had a good engineering explanation. I really do believe you will find another shaft choice a welcome change.
My Eye 2+ BeCu set has the newer JZ shafts. That has been a great combo, even though I've pretty well confined them to the basement and given the old body irons with more flexible shafts to work with.

Provisional

Got my regripping stuff from Value Golf. Great deal on Classic wrap Star grips ~ $2.50 per . Love my Star ,made in USA, grips. My cheapo Eye 2s now up to $60.17. VG still giving me the FGI discount too. NICE. The new grips help make the old sticks look better, they feel really nice with ProSoft inserts too. Typhoon's tip on moving the ball position up may help keep digging and Mr. Arthritis away. Great tip! No joint pain from my round yesterday and I usually only play 9 before I crap out. I love spring!
Even better than all that , I finally finished removing the above ground pool and huge deck around it today. Habitat for Humanity guys crew loaded the whole thing into their trailer and I danced a jig when they pulled away ! Got a dump truck load of top soil to cover the sand bed where it was. We'll Spread it out next week and seed grass. It has taken me forever to dispose of that darn pool. No one would come and take it even free. Had to do it myself . Contractor wanted $2000 to do it. Not in the budget I said .
WAhoo!

Typhoon

Glad to hear the ball position tip helping.

The pool....wow! A few years ago ours died during some weird winter weather that totalled a lot of above ground pools in our area. We have our lower deck going partially around the pool attached to the upper deck. So we replaced the pool. I told my wife I was thinking of turning it into a putting green. Have a company come out to put one in. I could finish the front of the deck with lattice, shrubs and stone. I could just extend where the railings ended at the pool. Have them add a few pitching areas in from spots in the yard.

So we get the pool in and 2 weeks after that 75 foot pine from the woods falls while I'm mowing the lawn...crushes my shed , just misses me and the pool!

Provisional

Typhoon I have joked about how old pool's sand base would be perfect start for planting putting green. Our dogs would make hash of it. I'm 3 miles from two decent public courses and access to practice is fine so why bother and it gives me time away from home / respite too.

Our place has 10 large old pine and sweet gum trees all posing threats to the house. Every storm brings worries that they may fall into it. Not just the house either , but many people get killed from falling trees debris during storms . The trees give us nice shade from blazing hot southern summer sun though and make the old ranch style house a pleasant esthetically pleasing place to live, not to mention cutting down electric ac bill. ????

Provisional

Typhoon
I believe that I have ascertained reason my distance with the eye2 is not much shorter . My benchmark iron set is 5-PW Mizuno mp57s, their lofts are close enough to the antique Pings that with my non-repeating swing they also match distance , albeit both are short compared to more modern lofted irons. That's OK by me, I just move up a club. No wonder I was air mailing greens with my Rapture v2s.

Rickochet

Provisional I picked up two sets of swamp dipped mix and matched eye2 and plus irons for cheap.

Something to note is that the lofts can vary between the Eyes and 2's and plus's so if you have a mixed set you might want to check the specs for each model.

Typhoon

Provisional
We have the 4 dogs running all over back there. There are pines vs k in the woods I keep watching...and it's the main reason I didn't replace the shed.

You sound like me...there is a golf course a mile away that I practice at and it's my getaway to practice. A green at home would be nice but I'd be under house arrest.

Provisional

I checked specs for eye2 vs + and looks like a gap wedge might be useful but I have never had one ... yet
Chart lists SW for eye2 + 53 which would be gap wedge??? Weird, maybe chart from Golf spec is wrong ?

My mixed set specs frm chart:
Club--- loft degree---- model
SW----- 57 ------ Eye
PW--''-- 48.5 ------ +
9 ------ 44 ------ +
8 ----- 40 ------ Eye
7 ----- 36 ------ Eye
6 ------ 31 ----- +
5 ------ 28 ------- Eye

When I played the other day , I used about every club in the set and gaps seemed fine except for mis hit shots. My SWedges have always been about 56* so thinking the set is ok. Of course it'd be better to have only one model in my set, but I'll play this bunch a while and see how they do. I was short on an approach with the SW and with 9 on a par 3 but probably I just Mishit a a bit, not because of gaps. I was more concerned with lies than lofts actually but my round of play kinda relaxed that concern. Still honeymooning and have not played them since re gripping and adding ProSoft Inserts . I'm high handicap anyway, so fine spec nuances are probably mostly just numbers with little or no effect .

Bigborgel

I don't ever want to pull shafts out of Ping heads again, what a job. What do they use for epoxy?

Provisional

Bigborgel heat gun was insufficient for me with my swamp dipped recycle eyes. Propane torch prevailed, even rock hard fossilized epoxy got smoked, no worries mate. # 3 head now in storage , probably never to surface again . I can't hit even a #4 or 5 worth a toot in an auger hole so certainly no reason to not use the old #3 for a shaft donor. A graphite shaft would not have survived , obviously . A real shaft puller would probably help but not in my budget for now .

sdandrea1

Bigborgel

I hear that a lot but it seems to be an urban legend. I have pulled shafts out of countless sets of PING irons and never had any difficulty. All the way back to my Dad's Karsten I irons, many sets of Eye 2, ZING, ISI, etc.......they come right apart with a little torch heat.

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