hi I am looking to reshaft my Cleveland CG1 Black Peral . The clubs currently have DG s-300 shafts and tour velvet grips. I am reshafting with Prologic 75 gr Graphite shafts, will be regripping with tour velvet grips with one wrap of tape. They originally played at D2 swing weight with the original steel shafts . I would like to rebuild them to a D2 , how would I go about doing this . I figure I would have to add tip weight. Any suggestions would be appreciated
Most graphite shaft irons are a half inch longer than steel ones to get the swing weight back up. You can go this route, or have weight added to the head or inside the tip of the shaft to get the D2 you want. Any decent club maker can do this.
Here use this link and go to the bottom right of the page and d/l the swingweight calculator spreadsheet. Here you can input the length, headweight, shaftweight, and grip weight of each club to attain a calculated swingweight. Adjust the amount of headweight until you get your desired swingweight for each club. This will tell you the amount of tip weight you'll need to add during assembly. I would recommend lead tip weights. myOstrich Golf
The caculated swingweight is dead on with this particular program, so even if you don't have a swingweight scale, you'll be perfectly fine.
Last edited by AGoodWalkSpoiledAgain : July 14th, 2007 at 11:44 AM.
You could always go with lead tape on the club heads :p.
One question: why are you reshafting blades with graphite shafts?
I have a wrist injury which required surgical repair. The graphite will absorb some of the shock. And allow me to practice daily and retain my single digit handicap I wasnt aware that it was not a coomon practice to have graphite shafts on Blades. I recently purchased a set of Hogan apex with stock graphite the stock shafts where just a little too weak for me.
It just seems kinda counterintuitive--if you're playing the least forgiving irons possible, why play with a forgiving shaft. But with a wrist injury, I can understand the change. However, there are a couple (at least) of clubhead designs to reduce wrist strain. The RAC series from TM has it, and there's one other company...maybe Adams? Nickents newer sets might have dampening as well, so if possible financially you should check out getting a set of those on ebay and then switching back to the steel CG1s when your wrist is better.
I have tried many of the newer technology clubs. For some reason I just cant get use to the look . I have always played blades, even during my college playing days. I actually find the sweet spot so the blades are very "buttery" and the soft steel of the CG1's feel great. I also switched to a softer ball. As far as sensicor shafts I have not tried them as of yet.
July 13th, 2007, 11:35 AM
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