I run into this quite often. I usually buy 1 iron blanks, so I can trim them to whatever frequency I want, which makes it easy to trim to the correct flex while still giving the impression to the customer that they are hitting a stiffer flex.
On probably 90% of the sets I have built in the last couple years, I have actually built them softer than the customer thinks they needed. It's too bad that I have to do this, but in the end they are getting clubs that fit their swing, not their ego. At 09:14 AM 8/29/02 -0700, you wrote: >...SNIP... > >I've found the simplest way to make a 5.5 Rifle, for example, play as though >it were a 5.0 is to soft step it. Many of my customers have insisted they >"need" a 5.5 or 6.0 or 6.5 Rifles. When they get them and find they can't >bend them they often blame the clubmaker. Soft stepping, using the same >labels, often does the trick for the guy who can't hit the stiffer shaft but >insists on having it in the head. > >TFlan
