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I am still getting my feet wet with club making, and am setting about to reshaft my set of Nike Forged Blades. I checked with golfsmith, and ordered a set of TT DGS300 shafts. I was told I needed taper tip, and that is what it seems most OEM irons take. However, it seems that taper tip raw shafts are already cut to length for standard lengths, where as i need +1.5 inches. Does anyone have any experience with fitting new shafts for increased length? Primarily my question is will there be enough shaft to accomodate the necesary increase in my specs in the native shaft, as the whole reason i bought the shafts was to avoid butt extensions. I know when I ordered my last set of irons, the factory made them the necesary +1.5 without extensions, so I am hoping there will be enough in the shafts to do the same at home. Thanks for your help.

The trimming instructions will come with your shafts and they will be long enough for you. The tip on the taper S300 is not to be cut ans is a butt trim only. A standard 3i is 38.75" and with your extra 1.5", this gives you a 40.25 inch club. I think the TT S300 comes in a maximum of 41". You should be good.

Thanks for the quick reply, I hope you are right. I looked at my order confirmation and it shows 7 (4-PW) shafts each in 0.5 inch increments of length. My shortest shaft is 37 inches moving up in 0.5 inch increments to 40 inches. Does that sound about right?

Those look right. If the raw length of the shortest shaft (pw) is 37 inches, and the standard length for the pw is 35.5, you will have enough. You will probably end up butt trimming some on each club. Just follow the trimming instructions on your invoice but take into account your extra 1.5".

thanks so much for your help, I look forward to giving this a try.