Making Your Own Golf Clubs

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For amateur golfers, making one’s own set of golf clubs or just that one special club can be a lot of fun, and could help in one’s game.

You may ask why you would ever think of building your own golf clubs.Well, the big reason is that when you buy clubs off the shelf, you are stuck with the sizes and fits that are in stock - limited only.There may be one size for men, another for the women and another for the children who need junior golf clubs. For someone with a 6′ 2″ height, buying off the rack can cause one’s golf game to suffer and cause annoying back aches because the clubs that was picked were too short. By learning to make your own golf clubs you can help your body and save some cash at the same time.

You really don’t need much to make your own golf clubs.You just need a head, shaft, grip and some other materials to hold it all together. Searching the internet will give you many options to buy your components to make clubs that match your game.

Club heads — iron and wood heads are available from many suppliers. One can buy club heads that resemble popular brands or designs unique to the manufacturer you buy them from. Each vendor offers their own line of clubs.

Shafts – you can buy the same shafts that the name brand golf club companies use.

Grips - there are a variety of sizes and types of grips.You can find them in different prices and even get the same ones the pros use..

Ferules — That’s the little plastic piece that goes on the end of the shaft above the club head you’ll find on some clubs. These are purely decorative except on graphite shafts where they are necessary to absorb some of the stresses where the shaft joins the club head.

The beauty of finding the components to make your own club is the fact that you can actually mix and match the components to match your game.

Some of the tools needed are:

Grip tape – two sided tape is needed

Grip tape solvent – very cheap and you can recycle the excess

Epoxy – you will needs an epoxy with a drying time of 2-3 hours

Pipe cutter for cutting steel shafts, a plumbing cutter will work fine

For graphite shaft use a hack saw

Grip cutting knife – one with a hooked blade works nicely

Sandpaper for roughing up shaft tips to epoxy them

Shaft clamp – a thick piece of rubber in a vise works well

Making a golf club consists of measuring and cutting the shaft to length, abrading the tip to make sure the bond to the head is as good as possible. You then push the ferrule over the thin end of the shaft and glue the head to the shaft with an epoxy. Waiting for the epoxy to dry is the worst part of the job… You want to take your new golf club to the course and try it out. Once the epoxy has settled, you wrap the butt end of the shaft with grip tape (double-sided sticky tape), get it wet using one of a wide range of solvents, slide the grip over it and let dry. Once that is done, you can now clean your new golf club - polish the ferrule and end up with something better than you buy at the store.

So get to your computer, find some great websites and order your components. In no time, you will be able to create your own golf clubs. So, go and have some fun.

Those who have played golf knows that it’s addicting. Building your own clubs can result in a similar addiction, so be warned.

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