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Date Posted: 12:25:54 03/09/07 Fri
Author: mark humphrey
Subject: making your own 1 iron set

If I make my own 1 iron set do I have to adjust the weight?
I have iron heads from Golfworks recommended several years ago.

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[> Re: making your own 1 iron set -- Matt, 12:42:38 03/09/07 Fri

I tried to make a set a few years ago and ran into all kinds of problems. I had to have all the clubhead lie angles adjusted to 63º and there's really nothing you can do about the weight problem unless you make them all the same weight as the pitching wedge - way too heavy. Even then all the bounce angles and offsets are different and the loft angles don't have a constant progression. Then you have the problem of shafting - what tip trim to use because the clubheads are different weights. My experiment didn't turn out that good although the clubs did play as well or slightly better than my regular set. All in all I spent around $250 in clubheads, shafts, grips, lie angle adjustments, etc.

Later I bought a set of 1 Irons and the difference was night and day. My advice is to not mess around trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear but get the real thing. You'll be glad you did.

Matt

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[> [> Re: making your own 1 iron set -- Gary Welch (Pretty Cool !), 09:03:54 03/12/07 Mon

I am new to golf. My brother got me started at 64 years old. I tried to learn with an old set of Wilson Staff clubs and I was lucky to hit the ball at all with long irons and drivers. After finding and studying this site, I cut the Wilsons's down and low and behold, I can hit with every club in the bag. I bought a new 460cc driver and cut it down and I am more accurate with it than I am with any of my clubs. The only thing I did different was cut my drivers the same length as the Irons. I tried the longer #7 length but wasn't working for me. I couldnt even hit my Wilson Heaven Wood but now, I can hit with them all. Now I can work on accuracy and not just hitting the ball. Someday, someway, I will get me a set of 1 Iron clubs. If the Lord and my retirement funds allow it.

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[> Re: making your own 1 iron set -- Paul429, 06:10:03 03/11/07 Sun

I second what Matt said.You'll never match the feel and performance.David has done alot of research and development ,that you or i couldn't possibly do.

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[> Re: making your own 1 iron set -- Bart O'Shea (Bart O'Shea), 11:12:57 03/11/07 Sun

Unfortunately I will have to agree with the others. I made a set. I split the set weight wise at the 7 iron. I used a slurry mixture of tungsten powder and epoxy and filled in the back of the irons that were too light to correct with just tip weights. I did not want to use just tip weights and tungsten powder down the shaft as I was concerned with moving the center of gravity too far from the center of the face. The 8 iron to sand wedge was not that big of a jump so I just corrected that with the tip weights. I used a set I was not playing for the experiment.
With shafts, weights, powder I probably had $100 into this, not counting the possible resale value of the heads that I permanently altered with the slurry/epoxy weights. Also not counting the time it took to do all this, which was considerable.
You may want to look at myostrichgolf.com. They do make a set of iron head components specifically for the single length application. The name is purefit. I know that David Lake knows the proprietor, Tim Hewitt, and has made positive comments about Tim's design and work.
That being said. I bought a set of 1iron clubs, used. I find them much more consistent than the set I had made. David is very quiet about his shafting methodology and that appears to be the key to the whole thing. There are simply too many people to ignore, on this site and a few others, that have either tried to make their own single length clubs or simply switched to the 1iron clubs and found remarkable improvement and consisitency.
If you are a clubmaker or are a person that simply enjoys tinkering, then make some clubs and see what happens. I got my shafts from myostrichgolf and recommend them for their products and the explanations they provide on other forums. There is an epic thread on single length clubs on freegolfinfo.com in the clubmaking folder. There is also a thread on FGI specifically on the purefit irons that is at least 4-5 pages long.
My decision finally came down to this. Did I want to put in the time of making clubs, learning to make clubs better and testing the clubs and then trying to make improvements or did I want to play better golf? I picked up a set of the irons here and spend my time practicing, per Mr. Lake's suggestion, mostly with a 3 iron. I still use the SW and LW from my old set and I have not bought the woods yet, but I probably will.
Good luck. Have fun either way.

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[> Re: making your own 1 iron set -- Pedro, 11:43:11 03/12/07 Mon

Let me say that even using the purefit SL irons does no guarantee success. trust me, save your money and just purchase Davids 1irons. If I had all the money back I used
trying to build a usable set of 1irons, I could have purchased 5 of Davids sets. I still have one set of the new design and they play great. I go back and forward between my Callaway X-16's and the 1irons, and now play both very well. I have to contribute the consistant play to Davids 1irons. It also greatly helped with my regular clubs. Good luck Pedro

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