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Originally Posted by Lumlum Howdie, |
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Originally Posted by Lumlum I'm looking to get myself a set of Durometers, and I have a number of questions. |
Great choice - fire away.
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Originally Posted by Lumlum 1) It seems virtually impossible to find SMT stuff in the UK, I found one site (Midas Golf) that will sell the heads alone for £25, or this site http://www.bighitgolf.com/smt-golf-s...eter-wedge.php where they'll do a made up club for £36. I emailed BigHit and they seem very helpful and said they'd sell me the head, a ferule, a Dynalite Gold shaft, and Lamkin grip unassembled for £30. Sounds like an absolute bargin to me, but does anyone knoe of anywhere else you can buy Durometers in the UK? |
Midas Golf seems to be the pre-eminent SMT supplier in the UK. Although, the SMT website lists Long Drivers of Europe in Stockton-on-the-Tees as the UK distributor.
IMO, another £6 for the assembly of the club (around $12 CAD) isn't a bad price to pay - especially if you have to buy all your club building stuff yet. The other thing that you will likely get them to do if you have them build it is bend it so that you get the yardage gaps you need. More on this later.
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Originally Posted by Lumlum 2) Do the odd numbered lofts that SMT offer annoy anyone else? Surely they need to provide one in 61* too, otherwise you can't have 4 wedges and maintain the standard 4* gap between each. I think I'm gonna get a 49* pitcher, a 53* gap, a 55* sand (as it has less bounce than the 57) and the 59* lob as I imagine of all the wedges you'd use, the sand sees the least action. What would you do? Failing that I could make do with just 3 wedges, what do you reckon? |
Yes, it's annoying to me, but if you buy a set of SMT
irons, then they fall right in line. Imagine that. SMT using a classic OEM ploy. On second thought, shame on SMT for doing that! Anyway, you can bend the Duros easily (303 stainless is really soft. They may as well be forged). I've bent mine all 3 or 4 degrees up, and 1 degree weak (I have a 51, 55, 59 setup to go with my standard 48 degree pitching wedge). [/quote]
[quote=Lumlum]3) I've never built a club before but am really keen to get into it, so I think I'll go for the unassembled pack, as it gives me the opportunity to get the shafts spined and FLOed. However, I'm confused as to tip trimming - is the length of the tip the same for each club (in the same flex of course), and the overall length of the club adjusted at the butt end? If so it seems to me that the stiffer you want the shaft, the shorter the tip you use, correct? So for example, for the Dynalite Gold shaft, the overall length is 40" and the tip length for regular flex is 13.5" and for stiff it is 11.5". Would you remove 2" in tip to convert from regular to stiff? [/qoute]
The more tip you remove, the stiffer the shaft gets. So if you tip 11", you get 'R', tip 13" you get 'S' (using your tipping guide), and tipping 15" (if there's enough parallel tip section) gets you 'X'.
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Originally Posted by Lumlum And so would you then have a maximum club length of 38"? |
Well, if we have a 40" shaft, and we assume that from the bottom of the hosel to the ground is 1", then our maximum club length is 41". Remove 11" from the tip, and we get a 30" club.
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Originally Posted by Lumlum So if you had a set of irons from 3 to 9, say, would they all have constant tip lengths of, say, 11.5" for stiff? |
Only if the headweights are all the same. As headweight increases, shafts need to be tipped more to get them playing the same flex.
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Originally Posted by Lumlum 4) How important is lie when it comes to wedges? More or less than normal irons? Does anyone know how much it would cost to have the lie adjusted in the UK? Can you bend a club with its shaft intact, so could I build the wedges to my prefered length and then test the lie on a board and have em bent without needing to pull the shafts. |
Lie is very important, especially in the wedges. A 1 degree error in the lie of a PW from 100 yards creates a 22 foot miss. If you know what lie and loft you want, you can ask your supplier to bend them, or hand pick them to the specs you need. (Loft will be easier than lie, especially if you need the lie adjusted any more than 1 degree).
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Originally Posted by Lumlum Sorry about the length of this post, I hope you didn't get too bored reading it.
Thanks in advance
Chris |
Sorry about the brevity of my answers.