I agree with Tim. Butt flex means nothting. A real builder uses a chart for his customers and builds to that chart by frequency. A good fitter can tell you exactly what frequency a player should be at using a combination of swing speed and transition style along with a good launch monitor to judge spin rates and dispersion. If your just building to an A or an R your not doing the player any favors and they might as well be buying [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the shelf. God tell me your not building using tipping instructions and calling yourself a custom builder????
Sincerely, Robert Devino 14252 Delano St. Van Nuys, Ca. 91401 (818) 770-0475 ----- Original Message ---- From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: spine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 4, 2008 9:47:46 AM Subject: ShopTalk: Shaft flex redux 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
