I use a couple strips of 2 inch painters tape to mix my glue on. When done peel and throw it away

Here in the UK, there is an accute shortage of club builders. At my local golf course the resident PGA Pro butchered my driver. ( I wanted him to shorten it by half an inch, but instead of cutting it off at the butt section he cut it of at the tip and it was then too wide to fit into the hozel. Undefeated he tried to grind the tip down in order to get it to fit into the hozel. The head came off after the first shot. He refused to refund my money and challenged me to meet him in court. Another player asked him to change the lie angles on his iron set. He did not have a lie angle adjustment tool and proceded to clamp them in a vice and wack em with a hammer, totally destroying a brand new set of golf clubs, when asked for a refund, he threatened violence. That's the level of technology and professionalism here in the UK!!!

As always, a great Video. It was fun to watch 🎉

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The USGA legal club length limit is still 48 inches, but the tournament committee can use the optional 46 inch limit like the PGA tour has (stupidly) done. I also use the playing postion unless the club is close to the upper length limit. Mizuno includes the grip cap in the length. Most companies don't.

Excellent video on mistakes and techniques, Jim. Thank you for sharing this!

Merry Christmas from Michigan!

I'm going to be putting on some BB&F ferrules on my Srixons 785s and Cleveland zipcore wedges. The tips here were better than what I've been doing.

One-half dozen or the other. When I do my final wipe off of epoxy I dab a small amount of grip solvent on the paper towel. To me, this insures the club hosel and ferrule area are all nice and clean. Not sure if the practice is right or wrong but it seems to work well for me.

The only one thing you didn’t talk about with the Grips is that sometimes people like the tape thicker like me where my second hand is on the grip the lower hand I like to build it up like three down there because that’s just the grip that I like and sometimes it doesn’t wanna slide over and I’ve use the heat gun to warmed the end and also the solvent inside and then put it on put some on the club and some on the grip and then poured on like you said and then don’t stop shove it all the way on but it helps her to get over the gift the beginning part of your grip that you put on the club is warmed up a bit and it fountains it up a little so it’s slides on

Very informative Jim!!! Thank you!!! 💪👍👍

Great stuff Jim

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It made me crazy was the first time I used shafting beads. I wasn't wearing my glasses while assembling and failed to notice the tiny gap between ferrule and hosel from the shafting beads. A minor incovenience but still a pain

48 inches is still the maximum allowable club lenth unless the tournament committee exercises the 46 inch limit option.

Incredibly helpful video Jim!!!! Regarding the ferrules-how do you know when to use a collared, no-collar & specialty ferrule like the Ping club? Is there a reference somewhere?

Great video and explanation of epoxy. I have found most people don't understand ratios and tend to miscalculate when eyeballing the amounts of epoxy. I personally use a scale but that because I'm just OCD. Is there a reason you don't use the mixing tips with the 3M glue? yes it is an extra cost but, mixes the epoxy quickly and perfectly.

Obviously, I'm doing something very different. When using a butane torch to heat up the hosel, the head is so hot I must wear a glove. You pull it off barehanded. Wow.

Thanks for posting this Jim. This is gold material for us DIY'ers. 👍

Is there ANY standard for head weight to shaft flex? I have an older set of irons with s300’s in them, but the old heads are 15-20 grams heavier than the new heads. So if I transfer them, won’t they be stiffer?

All good tips!! Personally I have re-epoxied Taylormade irons hands down more than any other brand. Question: I spine align the shafts on everything I make or repair. Benefits or not? I figure it can't hurt.

Interesting tidbit I picked up about epoxy a while back is that the viscosity while curing follows a sigmoid-shaped curve, with the transition from liquid-gel-solid happening relatively quickly. I haven't built any clubs yet but I'm hoping I can pick up a decent set of blades that need new shafts or grips for cheap at a thrift store some time, and it's great to know what the proper resin/filler is and how exactly the length is measured.

Hi Mr Golf total Novice hear.. just starting out (Just Regrips to start). IS there a guide for how much tape you put under the club for standard Midsize or oversize grips?? I know that it had to be built up for the plus 4s (im assuming 4 layers)

Hello, is your grip tape double sided? It didn’t look like it when you were handling it and I was curious cause I haven’t seen that before. Thanks for all the tips love your channel!

THE "L" is the most useful to at least me new at this.

After epoxy is used and has set up, does extreme cold harm or crack the epoxy. How many club fittings per week do you do? Do you feel that you are well listened to and then the customer goes with your opinion.

Where are you located and what is the cost to reshaft 8 clubs from steel to Graphite

Appreciate the vid! Now, how to repair the hole in your 🚪?

Two questions on gripping. 1) Do you also find mid-size grips harder to put on than standard size grips? Especially the Grip Master Kangaroo mid-size grip, that one is a nightmare to put on. Any tips? 2) I removed and re-used some quite old junior grips. Put them back on and some 12+ hours later (kept them in a room with a dehumidifier) some of them were still turning. Never experienced this before so I don’t think it’d an issue with my tape or solvent. Is it possible the grips are too old and after taking them off, they stretched out too much?

Can you simply use the quick centre beads to fit a 0.355 shaft into a 0.370 hosel? Or do you have to use a shim?

No tip weights?

Hi Jim, the epoxy gun shown around the 11-min mark with the DP420, is that the VB1005 50ml epoxy gun from Golf Works?

I’ve regripped my clubs for years. Had trouble with jumbo max not sliding on well. Any tips? Thank you.

Hi Jim, do you subscribe to the notion that, when measuring for length, both steel and graphite should be cut the same ( talking standard length here, ex 7i = 37”) or should graphite be cut 1/2” longer throughout the set?

Looking for help. Wanted to change shafts in a set of old Macgregor irons, graphite to steel. Tried to remove old graphite shafts, when pulling out they have essentially just ripped right at the top of the hosel. Tried drilling out but hitting metal about 5mm down in the hosel meaning no depth in the bore to put new shafts in. Anyone have any suggestions on what has happened or another option for getting the rest of the heads as normal?

Is it possible to utilize the air installation method for irons rather than using solvent? Recommended? I’ve done both methods but not for steel shaft irons. A driver shaft I put in another club did not have any tape so it was blown on.

DP810 vs DP810?

Jim.. who machines the hosels on your Mizuno 923s ??

What brand epoxy gun do you use with your 3M epoxy?

How damn hard is it to make sure the music isn't 10 times the volume of your voice? Jesus Christ