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Originally Posted by SHIBUMI
Yes, total weight is a much better feel criteria. A swing weight is the weight of a dime, so of course feeling changes are very difficult. swing weight is a little nebulis, but, if the head on the shaft doesn't balance with the tip of the shaft then weight is added to the tip to create a balance. (Fulcrum).
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Please stop confusing people. "Swingweight" is not a "weight", it is a "relative weight, based on a 14" fulcrum. A Swingweight can't be "the weight of a dime", again, because it is ONLY a relative weight. It's not a like a "Caret", which has an absolute weight.
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Originally Posted by SHIBUMI
... the flex is constant thru one manufacturer but not the next. The club makers don't make the shafts. They are contracted to make their heads feel and act the way they want. A Ping stiff is different from a Callaway Stiff from a Titleist stiff. Mostly due to flex points. And when you change shafts you risk the head not acting like it was designed. Answer is to find your flex within the ones offered by the company whose clubs you bought.
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Again, that is not correct. The only reasonably accepted way to subjectively measure shaft "stiffness" is with a CPM machine. Unfortunately, that only measures frequency at specific points, so it's not a fair characterization of the flex, along the length of the shaft.
Manufacturers are free to put a Flex Designation on their shafts, in any way they wish. They all measure flex differently and design individual shafts differently. Nary a single manufacture has a specific "butt (or tip) frequency" that causes them to designate a shaft as "stiff", "medium" or otherwise.
In other words, your statement that a Manufacturers flex standard is constant throughout their line, is incorrect.
Attached are the Specs for the Fujikura Ventus line of shafts (which I play). You'll notice that EVERY shaft model designated as "Regular Flex", has a different amount of measured flex.
Almost every golf club manufacturer, uses an "off the shelf" shaft, that their specific tests show, will appeal to the widest number of customers. It's a search for the lowest common denominator. There has never been a golf club sold in the universe, that a given player couldn't improve its performance, by installing an after-market shaft, matched to their swing characteristics. Unfortunately, the search for the optimal shaft is cost prohibited, given the minuscule return for most people.