Hi Dave Without the expensive equipment, we may need to FLO steel shafts to ensure we get the true plane. I was hoping this wasn't necessary, as I find FLOing steel shafts to be so bloody time consuming, sigh.
I watch tour players execute near flawless shots, and that of my son hitting 5 iron shots to a tight circle. Why then is that possible, given our current alignment methods and flawed assembly techniques (lacks precision)? Could many steel shafts (Apollo excluded from my experience) demonstrate good FLO on the residual bend N plane? I'm intrigued with steel shafts as this is what the majority of people use in their irons and wedges (scoring clubs). Published research on steel shaft alignment and its effect is scarce to non- existant. Majority of the testing evaluates graphite. Has anyone on this forum worked with tour players and build / evaluated the following two clubs with steel shafts: > 1st club ... N to target with poor FLO (large residual bend) > 2nd club ... N to target with great FLO (little residual bend) Further research into steel shafts could determine the effect of S at Noon, and 10:30 - 4:30 or 1:30 - 7:30 for comparative purposes. Dave, maybe your clubs with steel shafts exhibit little residual bend and are superior to just random orientation. If you believe now that your clubs are all wrong, then after your next few rounds, let us know if your score balloons ... ha, ha. Thanks Harry S www.Golf54.com --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "David Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, October 10, 2003 at 7:35 pm, Dave Tutelman sent the following > > > > * Charlie has taken a fair number of shafts that show up as Type 1 in > > a spine finder (he has three different bearing-based spine finders) > > and found the TRUE spine and NBP using a FlexMaster and a procedure > > we designed together. The true spine and NBP were not nearly the same > > as what the spine finder said. And, once he had found them by > > measuring actual stiffness, he did find FLO in the NBP and spine > > planes. But yes, they wobbled all over the place in the fake N-S > > plane that the spine finder found. > > Now I have to pick up a freqency meter and re-align all the shafts in my > clubs. All my steel shafted clubs are aligned according to the residual > bend detected by my spine finder, it's probably as good as random > alignment. > > Doh! ;-) > > Thanks for all the info, Dave. > > -Dave
