Eracer
No more triple bogies!!
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2005
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My first try at assembling a club, and I'm learning to appreciate the guys who do this every day.
I wanted to match the swingweight of my current 7i, which is D2. So I dry fitted the head on the shaft, and taped the grip on top of the shaft to account for it's weight.
It swingweighted to something like C2. So I added tip weight to bring the swingweight up to D2.
I assembled the club, and it came out to D3 (grip still taped). WTF??? Oh yeah, forgot to account for the weight of the ferrule and the epoxy. Fortunately, the swingweight kit came with shaft inserts, so I added some weight to get it back to D2.
Now I'm ready, so I put the grip on, and it reads D4! Now I'm really puzzled. The only thing I can figure is that when I was swingweighting without the grip, I had the butt of the club against the stop, and adding the grip changed the fulcrum point enough to add 2 points. Sheesh. So now I have a 7i that reads D4, and has about 15 extra grams of weight that I probably never needed to add.
I'm going to hit it and see what happens, but I see a "do over" in my future.
I'm sure glad I didn't do the whole set at once!:laugh:
I wanted to match the swingweight of my current 7i, which is D2. So I dry fitted the head on the shaft, and taped the grip on top of the shaft to account for it's weight.
It swingweighted to something like C2. So I added tip weight to bring the swingweight up to D2.
I assembled the club, and it came out to D3 (grip still taped). WTF??? Oh yeah, forgot to account for the weight of the ferrule and the epoxy. Fortunately, the swingweight kit came with shaft inserts, so I added some weight to get it back to D2.
Now I'm ready, so I put the grip on, and it reads D4! Now I'm really puzzled. The only thing I can figure is that when I was swingweighting without the grip, I had the butt of the club against the stop, and adding the grip changed the fulcrum point enough to add 2 points. Sheesh. So now I have a 7i that reads D4, and has about 15 extra grams of weight that I probably never needed to add.
I'm going to hit it and see what happens, but I see a "do over" in my future.
I'm sure glad I didn't do the whole set at once!:laugh: