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Bernie, I don't think it was just the weight of the head that Rich was talking about. I think what he was talking about was the change in the COG because of the weight of the paint. As we all know the higher the COG is the lower the ball flight. So by removing the paint he in essence changed the COG of the head without adding any lead tape to the bottom of the head.
RK
Manufacturer's of World Class Golf Club Repair Equipment
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Date: Sunday, December 08, 2002 10:50:42 AM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Golf Crap In General
RK,
>Rich Beem of Thursday was talking about his new 9* driver and how he could
not get the ball in the air >with it, he said that it had tendancy to nose
dive off the face of the clubhead compared to the other guys >he was playing
with in the pratice round with who were hitting 7 & 8* drivers. He then
went on to say >how the weight of just the paint was causing this and how
after removing the paint he was now hitting >the ball higher. I wonder
just how many of us would thought of that??? How many of us would of even
>concidered the weight of the paint.
Just what I want to do is strip the paint off my driver. No, I wouldn't have
thought of that, or even considered it. :-) Think I'd just have asked them
find a lighter head in the pile.
But, I do consider paint weight on shaft weights all the time. Almost all
shaft manufacturers seem to cheat on their spec shaft weights...using the
"before paint" weight for the spec. Aldila specs their Longwood 50/50 R
between 50 and 55 grams depending on the supplier. It's actually 57 grams.
UST is terrible about this...that ugly yellow paint job is lots of grams and
not even a consistent weight shaft-to-shaft, from what I've seen. Graman and
SK Fiber are two of the the few that seem to have an honest spec.
Bernie
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