Brad Thank you understood I will try Im sure it will be good if I follw your
instructions dutifully.
Regards Jeremy.
Brad Smith wrote:
>Jeremy,
>Sorry, for this late reply, but I haven't been online in a few days.
>Here's how I'd proceed:
>
>Start by adding the hosel weights as I mentioned in my earlier message.
> Now all your heads are 7 gm apart as they should be for swingweight
>uniformity. I'm assuming that your heads call for tip trimming (but
>you haven't said). My general method is to shim the head onto the
>shaft, mark the correct length on the butt end, then measure frequency
>with the club at that marked length in the freq meter.
>
>So, to start, I shim the 3 iron on (with the hosel weight in the head)
>and measure the frequency at the correct length. Note I didn't tip
>trim first. I want to see how it freq's without any trimming first.
>(this way, if the shafts are a little stiffer than I'd like, I may not
>have any tip trim on the first club. But, assuming it freq's too low,
>I trim some off the tip(say 0.5in), re-shim the head, re-mark to the
>correct length and re-measure the freq. I keep this up until I reach
>the freq I want. If I have to trim too much to get to the target freq,
>I'll probably decide to use this shaft for one of the shorter clubs and
>hope that all of them aren't this weak. If they are, I may just have
>to live with a frequency level in this set that is a little lower than
>I would have liked.
>
>Then I proceed to the 4 iron, probably tip trim the same as the 3 iron,
>measure it as described above and then tip it more(as necessary),
>measure again, etc till I get to my desired freq for the 4 iron. I
>proceed through the set this way.
>
>If the shafts call for butt trim only, I'd probably still do it the
>same way, because in my experience, many of these shafts still need
>some tip trimming to stiffen much as you proceed through the set.
>
>Hope this was clear enough.
>Brad
>
>On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 06:49 AM, Jeremy Ingle wrote:
>
>>Brad, Thank very much I do have a frequency meter how do I use it to
>>get the right trim? presumably I will need to use both tip and but
>>trim.
>>Regards Jeremy
Hi Brad, Jeremy,
One suggestion Id like to add is that however you are going to align the shafts in the head, whether it's logo up, down, or spined and flo'd in your preferred orientation is that if your using 8 shafts for example in a 3-p set then check ea. shaft for nominal freq. 1st and sort them in order from lowest or softest to highest and begin with your 3 iron with the softest shaft and progress up from there, if you can hit your # with that then you should be ok and not have to worry about running out of shaft when you've just about completed the pre build measuring and run out of tip.
David
