You need to do 2 different things here. You need to add weight to most of the heads to get them to a 7 gram differential. But you also need to raise the weight as much as possible, because, as David pointed out, you have light shafts and short clubs and therefore, you'll have very low swingweights. Because you're using graphite, you can't add lead powder to the shafts to get to your target swingweights.
Now this part is a slightly different recommendation than David gave you. You should add the HEAVIEST TIP WEIGHT TO YOUR FURTHEST BELOW SPEC HEAD, the 9 iron. Normally tip weights fit into the tip of the graphite shaft and come in 2, 3, 4 and 5 gm weights. But you have Golfsmith heads so you have another option. They have a special weight port in the hosel to accept hosel weights which they sell (look at pg 40 of their 2003 catalog). These come in 2.5, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 gm increments.
Given how light the shafts are and the shorter length for a woman's set, I'd add the max possible weights. I don't think your swingweight will go higher than D-0. (maybe someone with a swingweight estimating program can verify this). So, in your case, the new weight of 278.5 + 9gm = 287.5 gm for your 9 iron will be your head weight design "standard". Now add lighter weights to the other heads to get them all to be in 7 gm increments between heads. You can trim or grind them them to get to 1/2 gm increments. For example, for your eight iron, target weight is the new 9 iron "standard" of 287.5 - 7gm increment = 280.5. It weighs 273.0. Therefore, add 7.5 gm to it. Same for process for each head.
As far as trimming the shafts, without a frequency meter, the best you can do is follow their trimming instructions. I'd put the lowest freq shaft in the longest iron and progress through the set to put the stiffest in the short irons
Finally, while you can obviously effect the swingweights by changing club lengths, this is generally a bad idea. Length fit is more important in most cases than the "right" swingweight.
Good luck.
Brad
On Saturday, January 24, 2004, at 01:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Now to review the quality of the heads relative to weight:
>3---237.5 Wt. Spec = 239 g Head Wt. = -1.5 grams
>4---244.0 Wt. Spec = 246 g Head Wt. = -2.0 grams
>5---254.0 Wt. Spec = 253 g Head Wt. = +1.0 grams
>6---259.5 Wt. Spec = 260 g Head Wt. = -0.5 grams
>7---268.5 Wt. Spec = 267 g Head Wt. = +1.5 grams
>8---273.0 Wt. Spec = 274 g Head Wt. = -1.0 grams
>9---278.5 Wt. Spec = 281 g Head Wt. = -2.5 grams
>PW-289.5 Wt. Spec = 288 g Head Wt. = +1.5 grams
Hi Jeremy,
I'll try to help, it's about 1:00 in the morrning so pardon me if I mis spell.
1st of all if you have the Kent sports alpha shafts then you are well on your way home, these are the same as the Vector Tour Class and will come out perfect if you match your head and grip wt's and are exact in your length's
Your biggest problem is getting a high enough swing weight using this light of a shaft with this light of a head, what you will need to do is take your 7 iron at 268.5 gr which is your heaviest head relative to spec. and mock it up at playing length on the shaft designated for the 7 iron, if you slip on a split grip it at the top of the butt it should measure 38", which is 1" over mens standard, move it down 2" for ladies standard and secure it in your swingweight scale, this will give you your sw's through out the set providing you add weight to all the other heads to keep them on 7 gram increments off your 7 iron.
David
