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Bench Journal

Notes From the Repair Side of the Shop

Most golf writing is about buying equipment. These pieces are about keeping the equipment you already own working — which is where the bulk of our week actually goes.

Regripping

Count Rounds, Not Calendar Years

Every regripping guide talks in seasons, which is a poor unit of measurement. Two golfers can be a year past their last regrip and be in completely different situations. Here is the interval we actually use on the bench.

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Regripping

What Happens Inside a Grip While It Cures

Solvent, tape adhesive, and the twelve hours after a regrip. Why we ask you to leave the clubs alone overnight and what goes wrong when somebody plays that same afternoon.

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Loft & Lie

The Annual Loft and Lie Audit

What forty rounds and a winter of mat practice do to a set of irons, measured across our own clients' records rather than estimated. The drift is larger than most golfers assume.

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Loft & Lie

Why Cast Heads Limit How Far We Can Bend

Forged and cast heads respond differently on the machine, and there is a point past which a cast hosel will crack rather than move. How we find that point before it finds us.

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Maintenance

Storing Clubs Through a Michigan Winter

The garage is the worst place in your house for a golf bag, and the reasons have more to do with humidity cycling than with cold. A short list of what to do in November.

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Maintenance

Moisture, Tip Rust, and Failing Epoxy Joints

Clubs rarely fail suddenly. They fail slowly at the joint between shaft and hosel, and there are two or three signs that show up months before anything comes loose.

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Why we write these

Maintenance Is the Cheapest Improvement Available

A set with correct lie angles, healthy grooves, and grips that have not gone hard will outperform a badly maintained newer set most of the time. That is not a marketing position, it is what we see on the bench every week.

Bring the Bag In

Service work needs no appointment. Drop clubs off during posted hours and we will call you with a figure before starting anything.