What did you build today?

DonM · 2020-01-24T22:58:56+00:00

I'll start. Vertex AW on SK Fiber TT75R shaft. Cleveland Launcher HB 5W on UST 55 Gold R shaft.

colej

Yes it would play softer. Some people believe that a softer flex shaft leads to more of a draw biased ball flight. I’ve never really found that to be true. Maybe just a higher ball flight with more spin.

Bravopilot

Walterjn Or, you start a new trend. Cowboy golfer😎

Bravopilot

Walterjn They start riding the opposite way around the arena and the Boss lady stares a hole through you🙃

Walterjn

Bravopilot boss lady stares holes through me already from time to time.

sdandrea1

Walterjn What would happen if a shaft set up for a driver is played in a wood? Bad things, the earth would start having all sorts of weather issues?

Possibilities include higher launch, softer feel at impact, more dispersion. It's an easy experiment if you have tools/ability to pull the heads off. Same goes for iron shafts......soft stepping.

Walterjn

sdandrea1 more dispersion is bad. I'd like less. No experimenting at this time.

DonM

Scrape the shaft tip with the utility knife blade held 90 degrees to the surface. 100 percent scrape, 0 percent shave/whittle. I’ll post a picture….

DonM

Use your thumbnail as a stop, and hold the tip against the bench. No, you won’t cut yourself. Scrape with the blade straight up and down. This is for paint removal on new work, and epoxy removal on a saved shaft. It doesn’t damage the graphite.

Walterjn

DonM looks and sounds similar to removing fletching glue on graphite arrows.

qotsarock

DonM

Thanks for posting the pics. Are you scraping towards yourself and then stopping the progress with your thumb? Or doesn't it matter which direction?

Walterjn

LBlack14 I used sandpaper for tip prep. I marked off how far I wanted prepped with some masking tape and gently sanded the paint off.

LogicalOne

Walterjn Surprised you aren’t going after people for having fancy belt sanders with graphite prepping belts! 🤨

Lol! 😜 I kid, of course. 🙂

Par4QC

LogicalOne Am I the only one that hates pulling a shaft, then seeing paint left under the epoxy?

Walterjn

LogicalOne Let me guess, you have one of those as well??

bad9

qotsarock I'm not Don but use the same method and scrape away from myself. Once I scrape most of the paint off i use sanding sponge to tidy it up.

DonM

qotsarock I go back and forth, hitting the thumbnail and the bench. I was taught this by Bill Totten at the GS school.

qotsarock

bad9 Thanks. That seems more natural to me.

LogicalOne

Par4QC That reminds me from back in the day when some shaft manufacturers would send ‘prepped’ shafts. I swear some of the paint was still on the shaft. Maybe I’m not remembering correctly.

Rickochet

Par4QC Am I the only one that hates pulling a shaft, then seeing paint left under the epoxy?

I like to abrade the shaft to remove all of the paint but as long as the paint has been abraded to provide the epoxy a good mechanical grip surface removing all of the paint is not necessary (so I have read). A bud who usually brought his clubs to me to work on was in a hurry to try a new shaft so he took it to the local course and the course "pro" glued on a shaft adapter for him. The head came loose during the first round. He brought it to me to fix. The shaft had all of the paint on it with zero abrading and the glue was on about half the shaft. I showed this to my bud and he was shocked.

LBlack14

Par4QC Am I the only one that hates pulling a shaft, then seeing paint left under the epoxy?

Nope. Sloppy work, if you ask this "simpleton".

LogicalOne

Walterjn 🤨😂🙂

LBlack14

Walterjn Let me guess, you have one of those as well??

Doesn't e'rybody? 😉😁

Walterjn

LogicalOne I have something similar at home, I just decided to do it by hand so I didn't take too much off at once. Maybe after I've done it myself more than a few times I'll start using it.

Par4QC

LogicalOne ummm, you wanna move that TM head out of line of sight?
2 coffees, and still shakin'.

😄

LogicalOne

Walterjn I don’t have that great touch that many on here have to use a blade.

Spuzz

LogicalOne I don’t have that great touch that many on here have to use a blade

Both require a bit of practice and a little patience to get it just right.

Of course, if you lack in finesse and can't butter bread without putting a hole in it, it's not a job for you
LOL

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