Complete Guide to Modifying the Lie Angle of a Persimmon Wood

132 Pages·2011·7.48 MB·English

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Complete Guide to Modifying the Lie Angle of a Persimmon Wood

Including re-shafting, re-finishing, re-whipping, and re-gripping

Introduction (by persimmongolftoday.org)
Although many modern drivers offer some customization via wrench-operated
hosel fittings and weight ports, some golfers will find their desired setups
unavailable with modern gear. Fortunately, persimmon woods offer setups
ranging +/- 10 degrees off of standard or more. Additionally, swing weight, dead
weight, shaft stiffness, and appearance can be fully optimized with common shop
tools. John Erikson (www.advancedballstriking.com) walks us through the
process in this step-by-step tutorial which includes re-shafting, re-finishing, re-
whipping, and re-gripping.

Starting here with a 1970’s very nice Titleist Persimmon Driver. We are going to
re shaft this thing, and flatten the lie angle to 50 degrees so we can swing
properly on a flatter swing plane as so many of golf’s great ball strikers did from
the past. A flatter driver encourages a more pivot or body driven golf swing, and
it’s also much harder to hit the ball off line from a shallower swing plane. The
great ball strikers of the past like Hogan, Trevino, Knudson, Player all knew this
little secret of the game.

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Before we reshaft and refinish this old cat, let’s remove the whipping with a razor
blade. No worries here, just cut it off.

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No cracks in the neck.. good.. if there are.. no big deal.. today’s epoxies are
great.!

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These pins can be a nightmare.. this one is no exception!

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This one we simply are going to cut out. Sometimes you can drill them out from
the bottom hole, but no luck here. We have to get it out to get the shaft out.

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Two cuts from each side.

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Remove the wood so we can get a pair of vice grips on it and back it out.

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vice grips should be in every tool case!

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