At 12:22 PM 5/4/2011, Tom Flanagan wrote:
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:56:58 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: ShopTalk: This is a mystery to me . . .
To: [email protected]
I spent some time today with a couple clubmakers. We discussed this
anomaly, if I can call it that. What occurred to me is pretty much
what you mentioned re: clamp length. Clamping 2" or 4" or 5" simply
measures butt frequency. We all know the butt end of a shaft is,
typically if not always, the stiffest part of the shaft. Diameter
alone should be obvious enough. So measuring down the shaft -
"profiling" should provide much clearer data. The shafts I used,
the Aldila filament wound, are significantly um, "stiffer" at about
halfway down towards the tip compared to the PC Xtra Lites I
replaced them with.
Stiffer than what?
Oh, Dr. D. Thanks for stating the obvious. I should have said
"stiffer than the "Xtra Lite's." In fact, didn't I say that in my
last sentence? .
Yes, indeed you did. Sorry 'bout that.
Actually, not really sorry. It provided an opportunity for me to make
a point worth making.
DaveT
