TFlan, Great story! You should write a clubmakers book of stories. I'd buy it. Dan
-----Original Message----- From: tflan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:24 PM To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Subject: Re: ShopTalk: demo day Hell, I'm retired and I still get this stuff. Guys want to watch how I work, whether its loft and lie, reshafting, spining, anything. "Hey Flan, what's the best way to get a shaft out of a driver? I'll bring it to you in a couple days." Sure thing. A couple weeks ago a guy had me adjust lofts and lies on his Mizunos. A week later he called to tell me that a friend checked the angles on his machine and they didn't match the numbers derived on my machine (a Scotland). "So what's the problem?" I asked. The guy said the numbers should match. "Why?" I responded. The guy didn't have an answer so I provided one. A man with two clocks can never be certain of the time. "Are you hitting the irons well?" Yes. "Do you get the ball flight you want?" Yes. "Do you want to change the angles?" No. Then why the hell are you calling me? TFlan ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com <mailto:ShopTalk@mail.msen.com> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 8:23 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: demo day In a message dated 2/13/05 3:11:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It's also a way to sell against the OEM demo day ("it's demo day every day at Arnies"). Well, demo day fever has started. Phone is ringing and the golfers are asking if I have a launch monitor so the can demo THEIR clubs, hit all the new proline drivers and "play" indoors where I pay the heating bill! "Can you give a printout of what I need, I'll be buying new clubs in a few months" Yeah, right! Then they can shop intelligently on ebay or the Internet. I had a phone conversation whith a golfer yesterday who wanted his Callaway VFT reshafted, wanted a different flex Callaway shaft or a Fujikara like the one in his Cleveland. Wanted to know the tip size, price lots of advice and guidance and closed with "I'll let you know" Yes, I'm gonna have a "demo day", I'm going to demo my shooting skills with a pistol!
