Tom, Hey, I had the same reaction to a couple of SKFiber’s new SuperFly 50-gram shafts. I ordered an R and my NF4 indicated it was right on...or at least in the neighborhood. But when I put it on one of the new 175 gram driver heads, a hit felt way too soft...even with that light a head. The whole shaft vibrated like a snake on impact and distance was terrible. The same flex reading on a DTG UL-45 gives me an almost stiff feeling...the tip just snaps through the ball and shaft is solid as a rock. The only thing different about them is the profile...the SuperFly is a slender kind of “swinger” shaft and the UL-45 is a “fat-body hitter” shaft. Any similarity there?
Bernie bl...@charter.net From: Tom Flanagan Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 4:57 PM To: shoptalk Subject: ShopTalk: This is a mystery to me . . . I built a set of Callaway Diablo uh, clones (?) Thursday. Shafts Aldila Velocitor, 4 - SW. I weight matched the heads 7 grams apart, as I usually do, and freq matched the shafts with heads shimmed on, at 38" 5 iron. I was looking for something like what the guy had, 288 cpm 5 iron. So, I got the shafts matched 4 cpm apart using the 288 cpm 5 I to build from up and down. These are filament would shafts so no real spine. But I placed the logos at 3:00, where the shafts seemed best on the meter. Double checked freqs, weights, lengths, and stuck them together. O'size grips lightened the SW to about C9 +/-I checked the freqs again gripped. 284 for the 5I, and so on. Perfect, another quality build by yours truly except, oops! The customer called me Saturday, mucho pissed off. "I can't hit these Flanster, they're so goddam stiff I can hardly bend them." What the hell? So I took them back today, popped the grips, pulled the shafts and re-checked. Sure enough, freqs were right on. I did the old "tried and true" stiffness test. Put the club - 8 iron cuz I hadn't pulled it apart yet, toe on the ground, push on the butt. The damn shaft hardly budged! I shimmed the 288 cpm 5I together and tried that one - hardly any give at all - at 288 cpm! So, I have a set of PC Xtra Lites. Also filament wound. I installed them at the very same readings on the freq meter - 288 cpm 5I. Did the tried and true "push down test." Ahhh, nice and soft. So, the whole set of PC Xtra Lites freq the same as the Aldilas. In all the years I've been doing this I've never seen this. I can understand a couple cpm's difference, but what amounts to X to soft R with the same freqs, etc. makes no sense to me at all. So. . . . WHY? Befuddled in the Land of Fruits and Nuts. TFlan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.894 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3596 - Release Date: 04/25/11 02:34:00
