Re: ShopTalk: custom shaft labels

2006-07-31 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Thanks Arnie for sharing this site. I ordered more info on the product but feel that it would be pay for itself in advertising money saved. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check www.greenbriargolf.com They are not foil but they allow you to customize the label yourself. You can add

ShopTalk: 845 8 Iron

2006-07-01 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
I picked up a complete set of 845s today minus the 8I. Anyone have one in their junk box that I might talk you out of. A couple of years back my wife came on a new in the box set at a garage sale, the guy had won them in a tournament and was asking $100. Being the horse trader that she is

Re: ShopTalk: (no subject)

2003-11-18 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Actually you are correct Al. That is why I had to set a time period. I remember an incident back in the '60 that put those Ohio Presidents in jeopardy, it seems that the government failed to vote Ohio into statehood, more of a clerical error than anything. But you are right, I believe five

Re: ShopTalk: (no subject)

2003-11-17 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Back in the '60 there was a similar saying about the migration of folks from the North down to Texas. Being a native of a very proud state we have certain ways of looking at life and for the most part they are a lot different than the ways of the North. To us a Good Yankee was one that came

Re: ShopTalk: (no subject)

2003-11-17 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Come on Al, what do you mean. Most of them stayed. Actually I have traveled every state in the US but three and I am about to knock one of them off. I have never met anyone from anywhere I haven't been able to be friends with, Yankee or not. I love NYC and LA, I find beauty even in the ugliest

Re: ShopTalk: New pictures

2003-11-06 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Where are the pictures posted at? I visited the Shoptalk photo's and came up empty handed. Don Flatgard wrote: I've posted my newest pictures showing my rotating tip bearingdf

Re: ShopTalk: Grip Removal - Any easy way with no special tools?

2003-10-22 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
I do the same thing but I have never had to inject any solvent. So for the only grips I have lost in the process are Wynn grips but I don't usually try to same them anyway. Another Happy Linux User wrote: Dan, Do you have an air compressor blowing nozzle? If so, then; 1) use a tee to pierce

Re: ShopTalk: Grip Removal - Any easy way with no special tools?

2003-10-19 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
As long as the grip is not of the wrap style I have had 100% luck just using air pressure set at about 40 psi, that is the setting I use for my nail gun in the shop. Grips of the Wynn type have not proven to be good candidates for this type of removal, they tend to explode making them

Re: ShopTalk: Cheap drill press for shop

2003-10-19 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Evening Ed, we will be passing over California in December but not able to stop and visit. I am looking forward to the next time we are out and you and I can play a round or two. Nice bench drill Ed and the price is affordable too. I have two ShopSmiths left over from my working days, one

Re: ShopTalk: Shaft Length

2003-09-29 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
If it seemed I was put out then I was misunderstood and I apologize if I did not make myself clear. I did buy Mr. Malby's book, Golf Club Repair in Pictures, a very good book at that even though it seems to be a bit out of date. Most of the information related to drivers addresses the

ShopTalk: A name is A name.

2003-09-29 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
I would like to thank the gentleman that answered my question and for his assistance. Since the question did not relate to the NAME or TERMINOLOGY of what the club was called, I was able to complete my project. I also would like to apologize to the purest for the lesson in learning to direct

ShopTalk: To All Of You

2003-09-29 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Tanks for the education on the instruments of the game of golf. I appreciate the info and do except it with gratitude. Well ok the humor too. I can't help it if I am a greenhorn but I am learning. In the future I may ask other stupid questions that you will laugh at but I will ask them

ShopTalk: Shaft Length

2003-09-28 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Several years ago I purchased a set of clubs from a local club maker that are (I am told and they do look similar) Callaway Promotional Clubs built by a company named Bridges or WGGC, not sure which is the Brand name and which might be a club series name. Anyway these were made for an

Re: ShopTalk: Again

2003-09-18 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
The clubs you are talking about sound like the same thing made by Dunlop. I have the 3W, 7W, and 9W, they play as good as any clubs I have ever used. The 7W is my fairway wood for distances between 170/180 yards. The 9w is good at 150. The 3W however is not much good hitting off the ground

ShopTalk: New Irons

2003-09-16 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
I am sure that I will get a host of opinions on the question I am about to ask. That is fine, I have no problem as I need the input. What I am asking is for me personally and not a customer as I have not gotten to that stage of club building yet. I would like to build a new set of irons for

Re: ShopTalk: Please go Here

2003-09-12 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
. Even if you are selling it to someone else. Harry F. Schiestel wrote: passionate people - lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries - many golf and need game improving custom clubs ... HFS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom and Donna Mason

Re: ShopTalk: Please go Here

2003-09-11 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
What has this got to do with club making? Nothing, right? Richard Kennedy wrote: Please go to this site and read what's it is all about then if you agree please sign up.www.eff.com http://www.eff.com RK Kennedy golf-equipment manufacturer's of world class club

Re: ShopTalk: Davis Love III

2003-08-11 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Hey Dan, we will be on Maui in early December for a week. I like you I am the dark as for as where and how much doses it cost to play golf over there. I will try to remember to drop you a note to let you know what it is like. I am told there is one day playing on Plantation. Tom M. Dan

Re: ShopTalk: Bush and Unemployement

2003-08-03 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Excuse me! As a grandfather and one active in community events involving today's young people I have to disagree with the statement saying our kids today are idiots. Of course maybe I am wrong in saying that is not so but if I were in your location I might think different. That probably

Re: ShopTalk: Bush and Unemployement

2003-08-03 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Dan, I could not agree with you more. Maybe in a different time and place perhaps but as you say, nothing personal intended toward anyone. Communications and conversations are what men derive most of their knowledge from. I am still waiting for someone to tell me what stiffness I should use

Re: ShopTalk: Bush and Unemployement

2003-08-03 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
God knows I am about to stick my foot where it doesn't belong but if I had the opportunity I can tell you it would find a warm place to strike. I asked what I believe is a valid question. I have read the books, I have tried the various stiffness of shafts, and I am not a idiot. I read every

ShopTalk: Long Shafts

2003-07-22 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Yesterday at the local driving range I watched a guy hit a drive, not once but twenty plus time, using a Biggest Big Bertha with a 50 shaft. His swing was slow going back to a 3/4 position, then a moments stop, and a down swing as slow as his back swing. Repeatedly the ball hit on a line

Re: ShopTalk: 2-3 ball putter

2003-07-21 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
DO WHAT??? WHERE DOES ONE FIND THIS INFO?? NEVER HEARD SUCH BEFORE!! Michael Pogor wrote: The putter could be illegal. A golf club must be longer from heel to toe, than it is from front to back. You would have to measure this homemade putter to see whether it complies. Mike

Re: ShopTalk: Not golf I know you

2003-06-21 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Arnie, you got me. I took it hook, line, and sinker. Gotta a good laugh knowing I had been had. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drivers Lic on the internet You aren't going to believe this, Go figure, do you believe you can get this kind of information so easily! I deleted mine, no one

ShopTalk: Trip To Sac

2003-06-11 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Good morning Ed! I sent a reply to your earlier email about out up coming trip then discovered that it was never send on my new computer. Something wrong in the setup of the email program. So here is another try. Yes, we will be arriving there on Sunday, June 29. We will be there at least a

ShopTalk: Opps!

2003-06-11 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Sorry, I did not intend to post a personal message on Shoptalk. Have a great day! Tom Mason

Re: ShopTalk: Not Golf - Google Search Feature

2003-03-24 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
, and a link to request your number be removed from the database. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: swingweight

2003-03-11 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
About 0.5 gr's per inch. David Thanks David, that confirms a suggestion that was made that it would take 24 inches of lead tape to equal the two inches of shaft that I removed. I don't question the amount but 24 inches of lead tape sure seems to be a lot heavier than two inches of shaft. I

Re: ShopTalk: swingweight on The T-360

2003-03-11 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
par 4, 350 yard green, with the club. So armed with this info I can now file it away for another day. Thanks for your help guys. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: swingweight

2003-03-10 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
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ShopTalk: It Must Be Nice!

2003-03-05 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
and talent. I still want to know went you get anything done. Give me four and a half years more and I will join you retired gentlemen. Have a great evening. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: It Must Be Nice!

2003-03-05 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Mac I needed that response and I thank you for it. Yes I am looking forward to retirement by understand that only means I get to leave what I am doing now and look for something else to do with my time. I have often thought of what it would be like working a greeter at Wal-Mart three days a week

ShopTalk: Vendors

2003-02-15 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
to do what it is advertised to do? Any suggestions? Thanks to all and I appreciate being allowed to tag along on your coat tails. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Grip Science-Star Grips

2003-02-13 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
;Self, there's nothing I left off these pages". The difference between an eccentric and a madman is the size of his bank balance. We all talk to ourselves... those who get an answer are in trouble! -- -------- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: GS business deal

2003-02-08 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
I have never heard of Golf Etc.. Maybe there will be a store in Tyler. That would sure beat having to go into Dallas to GS. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

ShopTalk: Re:Spine Finder Plans

2003-02-07 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
is the importance and how does it play into the making of a club? I know these are beginner questions and I will take any responses by direct email if someone can enlighten me. This is just another learning lesson for this beginner. Tom M. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL

Re: ShopTalk: Re:Spine Finder Plans

2003-02-07 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Resource page: http://www.clubmaker-online.com/spines.html Will tell you more than you want to know. :-) Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Tom and Donna Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 7:39 AM Subject

Re: ShopTalk: Times they are a changing......

2003-02-06 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Watch it Ed, remember I am still looking forward to meeting and playing golf with you. Keep that little lady happy so I don't have to visit you in the hospital. Hey, just five more months to go. Tom -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Free Harrison shafts for your evaluation

2003-02-05 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
a solvent to free some of the grips. Great method, thanks for sharing the idea with others. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Re: ShopTalk :message sent all wrong.....

2003-02-05 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Just joshing you a little Jorgen and did not mean any malice in my words. Like I said, thanks for sharing. Tom -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Computer, not golf

2003-02-04 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
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Re: ShopTalk: 2003 Golf Rule Book Changes (only applies to seniors)

2003-01-30 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Priceless information. Now I don't have to feel like I am inferior to the pro's, just old. Thanks for sharing. Tom M. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: PGA Show review

2003-01-27 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Channel, because I got four requests from folks about play-likes. Didn't make the demo day - heard it was fun. Al- the other one -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: 20 min talk

2003-01-26 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Jorgen, from you email address I see that you are an Amateur Radio operator. Hey, give me a couple of days to get the HF antenna up and maybe we can chat on radio. My call is K5FRG, currently live in Athens, Texas. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ

Re: ShopTalk: Not Golf - Powers of Ten

2003-01-25 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Great URL Ed. I passed it on to friends here. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: test - too quiet - no reply needed

2003-01-25 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

ShopTalk: Cutting Through the chaff

2003-01-21 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
but not engineering one.? -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

ShopTalk: Joiner

2003-01-18 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Actually I have already joined but had not entered the would of the achieve posting. There is enough info in those posting to use as the text for a darn good teaching manual. Have a great weekend everyone, I am off to the links. Tom -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL

ShopTalk: CLUB LIE ANGLE

2003-01-18 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
makes ranging from TI 360 driver to 9 wood. Looking at the clubs at address I can not tell the difference myself, after all how much does it have to be off to make a diff? -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

ShopTalk: Orlando

2003-01-16 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
in the box. Hope you all have a great time. Tom M. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Spring around the corner

2003-01-14 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Where do you live Royce? -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Possible virus from Tflan

2003-01-14 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
I am not sure if I am the Tom you are speaking of but no, grampa is not in my email address book. I have Nortons here also and it check mail coming and going and is up dated every hour I am on line. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Sweet Spot Clarification

2003-01-13 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Certified Class 'A' Clubmaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] P T Barnum is the patron saint of expensive club manufacturers. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Tom and Donna

Re: ShopTalk: Sweet Spot Clarification

2003-01-12 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
in July and again in Hawaii where the tournament is being played today. Anyone know of a really great coach in the East Texas Area that can crash me through my deadline? Have a great week all. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Sweet Spot Finder

2003-01-11 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
but that is about it. Beware of those that attempt to rob you of your hard earned cash. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: E-A-G-L-E-S

2003-01-11 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
Pat McGoldrick wrote: E-A-G-L-E-S ??Pat McGoldrick On Target Golf -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

ShopTalk: A Biginner

2003-01-08 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
. I will try to keep my question to a minimum and do more over the shoulder looking that talking. Thanks for providing this format of exchanging ideas. -- Tom - Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

ShopTalk: Re:Mailing List

2003-01-08 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
. -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

ShopTalk: Books

2003-01-08 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
in the family, five who are still growing in size I will have a few guinea pigs to practice on regardless of which way I go.. Oops, I said I would stay in the back ground, sorry! -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190

Re: ShopTalk: Books

2003-01-08 Thread Tom and Donna Mason
will attend all of the classes offered. Like you said, it would speed up the process. Good evening and thanks. Tom -- Tom and Donna Mason Athens, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #1294190