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.
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!
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 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 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. ????
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 .
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.
I don't ever want to pull shafts out of Ping heads again, what a job. What do they use for epoxy?
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 .
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.
Kafsten 1 irons calling your name Steve? I think I might take mine out to hit on the SIM.
Snowed out again today..
I have never had an issue pulling a Ping head other than the smell. Kind of smells like burned cat turds.
My problem is that I use a heat gun to soften the epoxy, have a mini torch but have never used it.
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.
Now that is a graphic description ! Never tried using cat feces for incense myself, but probably comparably odorous to hot Ping epoxy fumes. ENJOY
I know I used to hear odd stories from my grandfather about what they would burn for heat.... but....
Thank goodness I grew up in lap of luxury ; we had a natural gas space heater in the living room.
You had a heater? Spoiled brat! 
