Old Myths Die Hard! I am reshafting a 5 iron — quality forged heads — that I built for a good player about 5 years ago. I needed to adjust the loft of the iron to get it back to spec.
Usually this is a 10 minute job at most — not today! That was a LOT of work! The old myth about forged and cast iron heads is that forged heads are easy to bend, cast heads are not. Username or E-mail:. Login Register. Here are some of the facts, and fallacies, about club adjustment. All bending machines are not accurate in their readings Machines with fixed measuring gauges will not be accurate when measuring clubs with offset, progressive offset, or face progression hosel positions.
NOTE: Clubhead registration is the key element when bending or measuring clubs. A properly manufactured club can be bent many times without breaking Even the most skilled repair professionals can occasionally break a club.
You can bend a club more than 2 degrees. TIP: Practice on a few old irons to become comfortable in bending lie more than 2 degrees. It is easy to do in a machine that securely holds the club. You can bend metal woods with limitations. It was the Nippon shaft that snapped, not the head. Wound up re-shafting it with an FST which I loved only to have it disappear at the range within a month.
I can only assume that wedge and I were never meant to be. Pretty interesting--the combination of the high tech digital camera-based measurement device and the low-tech method of bending with a vise and a hammer. I just realized that the blade of a table saw might make a good angle measurement device. Anyone tried this? I guess I could always just use trig to verify the angles, too.
Any one tried a plumber's wrench in place of a bending bar? The wrench looks heavy enough to do the job. If so, he doesn't know what he's doing. Personally speaking I wouldn't adjust my clubs without using a lie and loft machine.
Your name is very apt as that is what I would rate your success bending by hand and making your own measuring devices doomed. With a proper vice setup, you could bend them upright but not be accurate. Let us know how it turns out and what it cost you to buy new irons or have a professional try to undo what you have done. Bending is no trick - it's not rocket science. Measuring what you have done is the tough part. If you are a handy guy, you can probably figure out how.
My low-tech Golfworks machine at least 15 years old , requires multiple fresh measurements to be sure I got what I wanted - and I use the protractor you referenced.
If the shaft broke on your wedge it's not because of loft and lie adjustment, stupidity maybe but not a knowledgeable club professional. If I were going to be crazy enough to try it, I'd put it in a vice and use a 5 lb dead blow to hammer it into place and check it with a protractor. Or get to know the staff at a local store and start trusting them and talking with them when you go in and they'll likely do it for free for you, as a loyal customer.
I haven't paid for a bending since the 90's, and the staff at the store I go to are more than glad to let me walk behind the counter and use the equipment or if they're packed, do it for me for free.
I tell them what I want and they bend them and I walk out happy with no penalty to my wallet. Geez, the guy wanted some advice on how to bend his clubs without "proper" equipment. He didn't ask if it was a good idea or if he'd get perfect results. He explained his reasoning and it is perfectly valid.
Some people simply like doing things themselves even if it costs the same as having someone do it for them. End of story. Some of the people here are way too anal about how others treat their own clubs. You see the same thing when people ask advice on how to refinish a wedge or putter. It's comical when people say "Don't do it, you might lose up to 9 grams on your headweight" or "There is no way you can get the loft perfect". You guys can really tell the difference?
Those are the same people saying "Leave it to the pros to modify your clubs". When you're lining up a putt that is worth several hundred thousand dollars, then and only then should you worry about such things. I'd venture to guess that a lot of people on here said yes to at least half the questions. So, I've been interested in this as well and came across this thread. I was hoping to make a couple of my irons stronger to get some better gapping. Watched the Ping Tour Van video as recommended by another poster and decided to give it a try.
By the way, the lofts on wedges are changed most often and this is also understandable. As soon as you buy a new set of irons and the pitching wedge has different lofts than the previous one or flies shorter or further for some other reason, it is necessary to change the loft of the following and further wedges accordingly. The problem especially with wedges is the bounce. Because the bounce changes with the loft. The latter can be a problem especially for players who prefer less bounce.
You should therefore not be too radical with the wedges. The bounce is absolutely crucial depending on the type of player and very good players notice every degree more or less.
So you can't just change the lofts of the wedges at will without changing the club itself. The bounce also plays an important role in the irons and is decisive for the interaction with the turf. If you recklessly increase the lofts and lose a few degrees of bounce, you can risk that the clubface will interact too much with the ground. Use this popup to embed a mailing list sign up form.
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