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Changing shafts in irons

  • 08-10-2017 4:28pm
    #1
    fiestaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭


    Hi, does anyone know if there is anywhere that will change your shafts and trade in the shafts your taking out against the new shafts.


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  • #2
    ShivasIrons
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    fiestaman wrote: »
    Hi, does anyone know if there is anywhere that will change your shafts and trade in the shafts your taking out against the new shafts.

    Where are you based?


  • #3
    searay
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    fiestaman wrote: »
    Hi, does anyone know if there is anywhere that will change your shafts and trade in the shafts your taking out against the new shafts.

    A club professional will be able to swap shafts and put on the grips you want but are unlikely to give you a trade in on existing shafts.

    The hard part is choosing shafts. Unless they are very new clubs it would be hard to justify the spend. Might be better to sell and buy again.


  • #4
    tommypepper
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    fiestaman wrote: »
    Hi, does anyone know if there is anywhere that will change your shafts and trade in the shafts your taking out against the new shafts.

    Carlsberg Ad maybe


  • #5
    fiestaman
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    ShivasIrons wrote: »
    Where are you based?

    Kilkenny


  • #6
    fiestaman
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    searay wrote: »
    A club professional will be able to swap shafts and put on the grips you want but are unlikely to give you a trade in on existing shafts.

    The hard part is choosing shafts. Unless they are very new clubs it would be hard to justify the spend. Might be better to sell and buy again.
    It was a new set I got at good money because the original owner couldn't hit them. They are AP2 716 standard lengthy & lie with the AMT s300 shafts but I like the KBS shafts and it would seem a waste of the dynamic golds if I were to change.


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  • #7
    fiestaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭fiestaman


    tommypepper wrote: »
    Carlsberg Ad maybe

    Yea helpfull....


  • #8
    dan_ep82
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    Your best financial option would be to sell them and buy another set with the kbs if you can find them.

    Otherwise you'll have to just sell your AMT's to recover some of the potentially considerable cost.


  • #9
    mike12
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    dan_ep82 wrote: »
    Your best financial option would be to sell them and buy another set with the kbs if you can find them.

    Otherwise you'll have to just sell your AMT's to recover some of the potentially considerable cost.

    It's rarely worth it, they are hard to sell second hand.
    If you look at the cost of the shafts and I think a pro charges around 10 to 15 per shaft to change them, u are looking at 300 odd quid.


  • #10
    dan_ep82
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    mike12 wrote: »
    It's rarely worth it, they are hard to sell second hand.
    If you look at the cost of the shafts and I think a pro charges around 10 to 15 per shaft to change them, u are looking at 300 odd quid.

    Maybe not quite as dear to change the shafts if your doing a few but still too much unless its a new set of PXG


  • #11
    backspin.
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    A new thread on boards would be good if people posted up their own shafts and the ones they were looking to swap for. Find a pro then to swap each over.

    I'm sure there are people all over the country who have bought irons only to discover the shafts don't suit them once out on the course.


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  • #12
    Montgolfier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Montgolfier


    A cheaper option would be to buy kbs stickers on ebay $4, and put them on the shafts you have, let's face it we all have preferred brands. I'm a slave to taylormade anything else gets in my head. At the end of the day it's a tube of steel with a sticker.
    If you want a softer shaft remove all the shafts from the heads. Dump the pw shaft and put the 9 in the pw and so on. All you need then is the 4 iron shaft you can buy one online for 20eu delivered just make sure you buy a 3 iron shaft for the 4iron head. Think it's called soft stepping.


  • #13
    BigChap1759
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    Montgolfier wrote: »
    A cheaper option would be to buy kbs stickers on ebay $4, and put them on the shafts you have, let's face it we all have preferred brands. I'm a slave to taylormade anything else gets in my head. At the end of the day it's a tube of steel with a sticker.
    If you want a softer shaft remove all the shafts from the heads. Dump the pw shaft and put the 9 in the pw and so on. All you need then is the 4 iron shaft you can buy one online for 20eu delivered just make sure you buy a 3 iron shaft for the 4iron head. Think it's called soft stepping.

    In fairness soft stepping them isn’t going to change the shaft profile


  • #14
    Montgolfier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Montgolfier


    Explain please?


  • #15
    ShivasIrons
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    BigChap1759 wrote: »
    In fairness soft stepping them isn’t going to change the shaft profile

    Soft stepping them will lead to a softer flex and a higher flight


  • #16
    BigChap1759
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭BigChap1759


    Montgolfier wrote: »
    Explain please?

    Different shafts have different profiles ie different relative stiffness in either the butt, mid or tip sections and this leads to a specific “feel” in the shaft - softstepping just makes all of the shafts a third of a flex softer

    Softer butt section should suit smoother swingers whilst players with a more aggressive transition generally suit a profile stiffer near the butt(handle)

    Tip section generally affects ball flight, softer tip will give higher ball flight


  • #17
    Montgolfier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Montgolfier


    That makes sense for me anyway. I have dg s300 in my irons. I hit them well enough but I do need to hit them agressively especially in the long irons 6 - 4 . I feel if i have a softer shaft i might swing smoother if that makes sense. kbs tour 120g are a nice shaft alright try ebay USA probably get a set 220 delivered


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