if you soft step the shafts in your irons does it change their length? if so and you trim them to the proper length does that defeat the purpose of the soft step? thank you and color me confused
Rlafoone Answered question March 12, 2022
if you soft step the shafts in your irons does it change their length? if so and you trim them to the proper length does that defeat the purpose of the soft step? thank you and color me confused
if you’re using the shafts are already installed in your irons (parallel or taper tip), what you do is move your 5 iron shaft into the 6 iron head, the 6 iron shaft into the 7 Iron head, etc. The 5 iron shaft is a bit longer than your old 6 iron shaft and you could then trim the butt so it’s at your original 6 iron length. In essence your moving a more flexible shaft into the head (ie. a five iron shaft isn’t tip trimmed as much as a six iron shaft).
If your installing new parallel tipped shafts, you simply trim the 6 iron shaft as though it was a 5 iron (more flexible), trim the 7 iron shaft as though it was a 6 iron, and so on. Butt trim to length.
If you’re using taper tip shafts, you would purchase a 5 iron shaft to install into the 6 iron, etc and butt trim to length.
Butt trimming a shaft doesn’t have that much affect on flex of the shaft. the greatest effect comes from tip trimming. soft stepping will have about 1/3 cpm change in flex (softer, more flexible).
Excellent question ping guy.
i meant to say “have about a 3 cpm change in frequency (about 1/3 flex).
thank you for clearing that up for me