ShopTalk: Shaft flex redux

[Tom]

Now that I'm back on the subject, after my sorry experience with the 
so-called "R" flex Cobra M/Speed driver, I think it's about time for 
shaft mfr's to get their collective butts in gear and come up with a 
definition of what's R, what's S, and so on. It shouldn't be too difficult.

Choose a raw length. Choose a tip weight. Choose a clamp length. Flick 
the assembly. Write down the number and print it on the shaft. Forget 
the stupid "A, L, R, S, X" designations and put the raw data either with 
the shaft on print it on the shaft butt. Goodness knows there's plenty 
of printing on the shafts today already. Forget the commercials and 
provide some meaningful data, fa crine out loud!

Every clubmaker who's ever called himself that has measured shaft after 
shaft from the same mfr, same model, same batch, and compared it to 
other mfr's shafts and found no sensible correlation in flex, weight, 
MOI, spine, etc. That's a damn shame.

TFlan