Graphite is better than steel with vibration transference. When the club collides with the ball, you can feel the vibration in a steel shaft, and it tells you things. Look at the details of your steel golf clubs, and see if you can find information about the cast. This has a plus and a minus. It means that your clubs are made of one solid, forged piece of metal. This makes the club stronger, and with proper care, it will last longer.
On a forged steel golf club, you cannot change the head to a graphite one. On golf clubs that are not forged, light work will still be included, but you can replace the steel shafts with graphite.
You will have to heat the clubhead and remove it, and you may have to buy a new grip. Maintaining them, and not being overly rough with them, means that your driver can last longer than the recommended years. That is until the coating or enamel comes off.
Graphite is durable, but it needs a coating of an epoxy resin or some sort of film to protect it. Once that seal is broken, chipping is more than a possibility. This article is basically a list of trade-offs. Corrosion is a problem with steel, not so much with graphite. Steel is metal, and metal is prone to rust.
Thanks for reading this. I would love to hear from anyone who has replaced steel for graphite shafts or who uses graphite shafts in similar forged irons or wedges.
Nessism 2 posts. Golfrnut 3 posts. Kingcat 3 posts. Bill Guy 6 posts. Depends on the shaft. I didn't like the Steelfibers because they felt like very stiff steel. But I did like the Recoils a lot.
The Matrix shafts are really great as well. The graphite shafts are really popular in the Japanese irons. They are premium and they ask a premium price. They will typically be a straight swap. Your 's are a taper tip so your shafts have carry the same weight throughout. You could just find a weight you liked in shafts and went the same route with graphite but I couldn't recommend it fully without trying a few graphite options.
Most popular being Recoils and steelfibers. Wanted to go back to them until I tried the Modus I will be using Modus 's until they stop making them. Very soft shaft. I was using X's in my wedges for a long time because I didn't know any better. I then went with Nippon modus wedge shafts. Now all of my iron type clubs have Nippon modus shafts.
Where as before I was Recoil F4's in my irons and X's in wedges. But quite honestly, I wouldn't hesitate to go with Recoil wedge shafts in my wedges. I got a discount on the Nippon's when I went full set.
Hind sight, I would have preferred Recoil wedge shafts. Just a much better feeling and performing club than my similar wedges. Wouldn't hesitate for a second to go all recoils in my irons. I believe there are tour pros playing steel fibers and possibly other graphite shafts in their irons. I believe that answers the question as to whether they are good enough.
From there it is simply about finding the ones you like and suit your game. TaylorMade Kingdom M4 9. There are a lot of graphite shaft options, in a lot of different weight classes, with quite a few different bend profiles out there today. As already mentioned, there are a lot more option out there than 10 years ago.
It's about finding what's right for you, and not someone else. I'm the exact opposite of KingCat for example. Softer tip profiles feel too "muted" or "mushy" for me at impact. I love SF shafts, but don't particularly like the feel of the softer Nippons or softer graphite. Doesn't make either one of us wrong, and there are options out there that fit both of us.
I am not quite as strong a player as some of you being in my mid 60's with a SS now around 90 and playing off I haven't been able to try the recoil or modus graphite shafts but will try to do so. Can I take it though that there is no problem in selecting and fitting a graphite shaft to replace the steel shaft in the standard JPX head?
But do we classify those as typical graphite? I feel they are sorta in their own category in both material and design, or am I wrong? Taylormade SIM - 9. What is the benefit of going to graphite now? It used to be for the senior flex was graphite, now it is for all swing speeds? I have a 75 mph iron swing, so I am a reg shaft but I am in my 40's and so I don't have a shaft weight limitation.. Will a graphite shaft help me hit farther with the same swing?
That's their claim. I'm 28, been golfing for about 20 years and I swing like Bob Dole. I typically play a R until I was told to stop. I build all of my speed in the last 20" of my downswing, so I am told. I went to graphite on my own then let ego get ahold of me. But as Golfrnut said, he likes the Steelfibers where as I couldn't like them.
Thank god we have choices. For what its worth, my 68 yo father in law swings a club faster than me and further. Fitting is going to come down to what options are available wherever you get the fitting.
As fas as assembly goes, there may be cases where some builds are a little more challenging than others when dealing with different hosel sizes, head weights, etc but those kind of have to be tackled on a case by case basis.
And don't say that you don't have a weight limitation, it is one of the most important factors to consider. At the end of the day, I enjoyed the graphite shafts on the I kept the steel in the wedges. Because of the old-style lofts on the Ping Eye-2s, my P in that set works out to be a GW to the modern lofts of the s.
Last edited by Weirfan ; Mar 31, , PM. Re: reshafting replacing steel with graphite What Weirsy said. For ballpark, every 7g of shaft weight you change, you change 1 swingweight point. So if you're replacing your steel with graphite that weigh the same, then nothing changes except the colour of your shafts and the vibrations you feel.
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