Matrix Reloaded

Thanks to Peter and Steve and others for answering my question. Apologies to Provisional for the thread jack!

Provisional

Nice choice on the shafts! If swingweight is important to you, final shaft length is one way to affect it. Given the difference in weight of the steel you are pulling vs the graphites going in, you could start by making the graphite final length 1/2" longer than the steel final length was. I use an old grip that weighs about the same as the grips I am using, split it down the middle and dry fit it to check swingweight (on a SW scale) before final butt trim and gripping. Or, you can make them all the same length as they were in steel and go with a lighter swingweight or add lead tape in the cavities, or tip weights in the shafts.

Let us know how it goes!!

Good plan. Remember to post constant update pics as you go along.

Provisional All my shaft mark tapes gone and mixed up clubs from different sets. So who knows whazwhat. Even at that they played ok. A Fixn to be mobetter y'all . Hope your arthritis is better . Likely Will be if you put the graphites back into the bag ? My Wilson graphite fat shafts are back in mine for now.

Your set will definitely be weighted more consistently now, that's for sure.

My arthritis is doing better, thanks! I have one Achilles Heel that I have to take extra care of. The tendon on the lateral side of my left elbow will tear occasionally. It swells and bleeds giving me all shades of green and blue bruising. Rest and Ibuprofen heals it. I now wear a brace if I am playing consecutive days. Subsonic, me, livegolf24 and one other guy are playing 63 holes over this weekend at 4 different courses, so the brace will be on! I'll be playing my graphite shafted G10 irons and demoing a set of graphite Eye 2 irons that belong to subsonic.

Provisional I'll probably start pulling the old teeth today.

It takes more heat than most clubs to pull the teeth on those. I use Barkeepers Friend powder and a sanding sponge to shine the hosels back up.

Provisional I like to use heavier grips on lighter shafts to balance out the SW a bit. I know “conventional thinking” say you are just fooling the SW scale, but all a sw really is about is feel of balance anyway. The clubs feel different, ask Ping why they use counterweighted shafts in more weight up high doesn’t mean anything .

I have a quick tempo, so weight matters a lot in my world, I like heavy shafts. I have Callaway XHot Pros shafted with Steelfiber 125 shafts and a regular golf pride wrap grip. Earlier in the year I bought a Pinhawk head to try and stuck a Matrix Kujoh 95 in it, knowing that it was going to be lighter and having the notion that I like to make things more complicated than they need to be, I went with the tackimac unified grip on that. I never did get around to scaling it out because I gave it the waggle test and liked it, went out and hit it and hit it well.

My thought was if I get to wedges, I’d want to choke down on them, the unified grip would be ideal for that. I love the grips, it feels so much more natural than a taper, I wish I had found these years ago. Plus, having the lighter shaft isn’t all that bad when the grip brings the total weight of the club back up 15-50g depending on what you are used to. I learned about the heavy grips years ago from BigDaddy (Chuck) on FGI, he has bear paws so he used oversized grips and 7-8 wraps under them. They were a hair too big for me, but the balance of his clubs was always awesome for me. Point of my rambling here is you might want to try a heavier grip to go with the lighter shafts, it works out well for me.

Provisional Go for the whole set in graphite. It might take a minute to get used to, but as we know golf is 90% mental, the other half is physical.