Some chaff for the wind, since it sems to be slow around here
lately...
Lately, several suppliers have been selling inexpensive stepless steel
shafts. Elta (Golfsource USA) has the Supreme Gold and Tour Golf has the Tour
Series Stepless Steel, both of which I've tried on my irons.
The Supreme Golds ($5) seemed pretty good...the two sets I bought were all
were within 3 grams and a little lighter than Rifles...maybe 114 grams for
a 39" shaft. They played well. But were they as good as they seemed?
Since I built those sets, I have begun using my Neufinder 2 to sort the
shafts by deflection, choose a base shaft and match the other shafts to it by
deflection. I generally use the softest NBP in the longest iron and
stiffest NBP in the shortest iron. (Although Dan wants me to try it the other
way around.) The other day, I tried Tour Golf's Stepless Steel and, again, they
were pretty much within specs for weight. But WOW, some of
them seemed way off in the NBP and spine magnitude when I sorted them
on my NF2. The normal NBP deflection for an R-flex shaft on a 35" beam
length appears to be 0.545"-0.549"...at least 5 of the 8 shafts fell within that
range. Spine deflections on the 5 normal shafts were between 0.552" and
0.555"...seemed pretty good. But of the three outliers, two NBPs were 0.512" and
0.517" and the third was 0.558". If 0.004" equates to about 1 cpm (I'm
no mathematician...I was given that number and hope I'm using it
appropriately.), two were off by at least 6-8 cpm and the other by more than 2
cpm. Not so good. You couldn't use the manufacturer's recommended tip trim and
come anywhere near a matched set with these unless you got lucky. And, you'd
even have a hard time with a frequency analyzer, unless you took your cpm
readings directly on the NBP and spine.
Just thought it was interesting that shafts that look OK by weight can have
an almost unmatchable spine magnitude.
Bernie
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