Good question: why? I've removed one of the clubheads in the set of Callaway X-14; there are six slits about 1 inch long. If you re-shaft using the same technique, cutting the slits with a Dremel tool fitted with a cuttoff wheel is tedious and time-consuming, indeed. I think the reason they (Callaway) used the design of the tapered hosel and the slitted parallel shaft is the mechanical bond, similar a tight-fitted .355" taper tip install, that is created with the Callaway design.
We won't be hitting the links for another month or more, so I have lots of time to mess around with this project! John B -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Al Taylor Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Callaway x-14 reshaft Why? Al At 11:19 AM 3/11/2003, you wrote: >Isn't better to leave a clubhead as it was designed, even if it is a bit >more time-consuming to duplicate (in this case) the OEM's shaft installation >technique? > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of tflan >Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:17 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Callaway x-14 reshaft > > >Parallel but there's a smaller diameter at the bottom of the hosel. Note >that Callaway slits their iron tips and shoves a tip plug in them. The >slit/plug allows the shaft to be firmly set - and no doubt there's a >cosmetic effect as well. Your choices are to ream out the hosel to .370" or >slit the tips. Reaming is easier. > >TFlan > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "JB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 6:19 PM >Subject: ShopTalk: Callaway x-14 reshaft > > > > Do the callway X-14 Pro irons take a parallel or taper tip shaft? > > > > TIA > > John B > > > >
