Re: ShopTalk: Hireko Components

[Steve \"Cub\" Culbreth]

Bernie,   Thanks for the great information, as usual ;-)   I may pick them over some this year.  Some of the metal woods got my attention.  I still can't hit a metal wood worth a damn, so it's ridiculous spending lots of money for heads.  For the customers, and stock, I'm sticking with GS, Raven, and TGW mainly.   I'm stealing some time away today to play.  Will it be slice or a hook???  ;-)   Cub ----- Original Message ----- From: Bernie Baymiller To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:21 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Hireko Components Cub,   I've cherry-picked Hireko for a few "cheapo" components I like for some of my seniors:   Powerflex FW-501 iron shafts, filament wound, 82 grams, quite consistent shaft-to-shaft for un-frequency matched shafts (NF2 readings .446" to .469" on the NBP on my last set, or about 5 cpm across the set, and very small spines). They seem to play as well as my old Apache PM-30i, but the FW-501s are $6.30 instead of $15. Used their Super52 blue and gold wood shafts for a senior woman who's an ardent West Virginia fan. She loves them because their her school colors. :-) Not bad shafts, though, at $15.75.   New ferrules are very nice. Especially like the black iron and wood ferrules with 2 sliver rings. The black ones with blue rings look very good with Bang SF fairway woods.   Soft Tread grips (Softee-type) at 52 grams feel good on irons and hold up well for a buck. Really easy to get on and off for "experiments." GW's Grip 1 Seamless softwrap is about the same thing for about the same price.   Some of the iron heads are a good value. The Acer XDS2 Professional heads have very little offset...set up and play well. Can be purchased from Discount Golf Broker (drop-shipped from Hireko) for $5.55. Built a set of these with Rifles for my son and he kills them. Most of these have painted faces, instead of blasted faces...as you would expect at that price.   I've not tried any of their driver heads and only tried a couple of their fairway woods. They were very average, but  an OK value at about $13-$15 a head.   Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]