snake eyes

has anyone ever tried a snake eyes driver head/shaft???

i saw a guy at the range todya hitting 350 easily with a 44" snake eyes 653D and a proforce v2 stiff shaft at golfsmith.com. I could not believe my (eyes or ears LOL) everyone at the ranges head turned toward this guy at impact, it is the LOUDEST driver i have ever heard. at $130ish for the club and $70ish for the shaft i don't know why people would buy OEM drivers for $300+ dollars when there are drivers that nice out there for cheaper. the onyl bad review i have read on this driver is that the some genuis put 12 grams behind the center and 8 on each side and the wieghts caved into the face. it comes with 8 in the center and 2 on the toe/heel which i think is fine, but i don't know why he stuck so much weight on that one.

Yep. All that, and a custom built driver's shaft is probably spine aligned, too.

he did say it was spine aligned, but on the website i looked and i saw somththing called shaft puring.... is that the same thing???

get a new measuring devise yours is broken lol.

It's along the same lines, yes. There are 2 procedures done to shafts to determine playability.

One is called 'spining' (not spinning), and the other is called 'FLOing' (FLO stands for Flat Line Oscillation).

There's a fellow by the name of Dave Tutleman that has done some excellent work on both.

The general theory is that the shaft will have one plane that it constantly wants to return to. By aligning this plane in all shafts across all clubs, you gain consistency across your set. Before you ask, no, the OEM's do not do this. Not one.

"So what?" you say. Well, imagine if the plane of return ran from 11 o'clock to 5 o'clock on your shaft. When you swing the club, this is the plane in which the shaft will want to ultimately move. Yes, the force of your swing is greater than the natural bending tendencies of the shaft. But when it kicks, the natural bend is going to influence the kick. It may not directly change it, no, but it will certainly influence it. "No biggie," you say. "I just make a small setup change to counter that." Fair enough. But lets say that the next club you grab has that plane at 9 and 3. Do you make another setup change? And if the plane is 12 and 6? What about 10:30 and 2:30? (That's a joke. If that's your plane, your shaft is bent or broken.)

I don't make clubs that haven't been FLOed. IMO, spining is a secondary procuedure, where you can enhance distance or control.

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