Sorry - you proposed the new system and I simply asked what value it
would be.
I have no answers, but I do know that butt frequency alone is of no
more value than a letter designator. Neither means anything useful in
and of itself.
And in spite of you clearly being a jerk about this, I'm not looking
for an argument, only asking you what the value of the number is. You
seem to think it adds value - and I'm saying it means nothing
independent of the model of the shaft.
I can give you 10 shafts with exactly the same number as butt frequency
- and they will all play completely different one to another. One will
be a true A flex, another a true R, another a true S and yet another a
true X. If you've been following any of the discussions on shaft
profiling over the last 5 years you certainly have heard this before.
Clearly your second paragraph notes you don't understand what I'm
saying here.
Fuji does not have one butt frequency that denotes A flex - and neither
does UST. Both companies will have an A flex shaft design that is butt
soft and tip stiff which will have a lower butt frequency than an "A"
flex shaft design that is butt stiff and tip soft.
The number itself is meaningless without knowing how the shaft profiles.
-t
On Aug 4, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Tom wrote:
Clearly you're looking for an argument and I ain't in the mood to
argue. So read my post to Roy, on shoptalk.
And play a little closer attention to the meaning of my post. I
simply think mfr's could and should provide a hell of a lot more
information than the alphabet. Fuji's "A" flex is different than say,
UST's "A" flex, often by a significant amount of freqs. I further
expanded upon the original post to a couple guys that you might want
to take a look at and ponder.
