Hi Ed, You didn't say which heads the hy's came out of, like 2-3-4, nor which heads they would be going into like 4-p or what ever. You should be able to taper them with out any problem, I personally would feel safer reaming the heads though. I certainly would not cross-cut them. The bigger issue is that Aldila only uses a 3" parallel section in all their shafts, (well except for the vx/vl) even their .370 iron shafts have a 3" parallel, but they are discrete length and constant weight. So your not going to have much if anything to tip them, and the Hybrid shafts already come much softer than their iron counterparts, this combined with the fact that your iron heads will be much heavier than your hy's will leave you with super soft shafts, and you will not be able to have much of a match in terms of frequency. Now this is not always a bad thing in the case of a single club, but I don't see it working in a set, not one you would want anyway. I recently built a cast Vector 2 iron in a VS Proto 95 X Hybrid un tipped 1" over for a high swing speed player who is absolutely in love with it. It's stiff enough for him, but still goes high enough. He plays forged blades in 3-p, driver and 3 wd, but could never find a Hy or a 5 wd he liked. David In a message dated 8/8/2011 5:59:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I have a set of Aldila NV hybrid iron shafts in .370 and I am asking if I can insert them into a set of tapered .355 irons. Will the cross-cut method work with graphite or will trimming a taper angle into the 370 tips weaken the tip too much? -- ED Boggess
