Spine Aligning

[jeardley]

Is it worth it or not? only just heard about this, makes sense to me just wondered if it would make any difference in the real world.

Anynody had there clubs spine aligned?

http://www.golfclubsforeless.com/spine_aligning.htm

 

[bobmac]

I haven't and I don't know any nody who has.
If it made a big difference, every nody would be doing it.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I've heard of shaft puring but not this

 

[thecraw]

It makes sense too me.

 

[Region3]

I 'won' a putter on ebay, and the location was only about 10 miles away from me so I asked the seller if I could collect it.

He met me at his unit on an industrial estate, and it was full of golf goodies inside, and quite big. Bigger than an AG I'd say.
Also, outside was his tour van. It turned out he followed the ladies tour and did most of his work for them.

Anyway, back to the point.

He spent quite a bit of time telling me about club making and the differences even in shafts all from the same batch.

He had a machine to measure the stiffness of shafts by clamping one end in the tool and twanging the other end.
The machine then gave a readout of the frequency the shaft was vibrating at.
I can't remember now what the actual readings were, but when he turned the shaft a quarter and did it again, it read about 20 or 30 different, which he said equated to almost a full change in flex!

He had some cracking stuff (and technology) in there, including Muira drivers with go faster fins on the side!

 

[robbest3offthetee]

Region3,Ithink,as Homer says this is known as shaft puring,the less distortion/vibration the better...

 

[Region3]

All shafts will vibrate, you'll just have more consistency if they all vibrate at the same frequency through the set.

It might be called puring, I have no idea.

 

[USER1999]

Puring / spine aligning can be a good thing. It only really effects 6i and up.

Most golf manufacturers don't pure shafts. The guys on the Ping tour truck didn't do it either.

I guess for most of us, buy the club you test hit, not a similar one off ebay. That way it makes no odds how the shaft was put in, as you can hit it. It works for you.

 

[Ethan]

I think this is unlikely to be of any benefit to an average golfer with steel shafted irons. Puring may have some value in your graphite shafted driver.

 

[viscount17]

The guy who reopaired ny PW had all the toys too, and spent some time showing me how they all worked - and with no expectation of a sale.

it was as Region said, but he also said it was more important with steel shafts, almost all of which have a seam. the idea was that you frequency matched the shafts then set all the seams, the stiffer part, throughout the set at, I think, either 90 or 270 deg to the swing plane.

 

[richart]

I haven't and I don't know any nody who has.
If it made a big difference, every nody would be doing it.

Big Ears ?

 

[WhoGivesA]

Yes I would agree with those that say it does make a difference. Along with shaft Puring/Flo and frequency matching spine alignment is important.
MOI matching of clubs is the new developement which is taking the custom fitting of clubs to a player to even higher levels.
All of these custom fitting techniques can help a player(of any ability) to improve his game and also provide a better understanding of how our clubs work/or not in many cases.

Check out these links for a better understanding of the various processes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec95TZSPnoQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbIRBJ2Seds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seZJUO4ZQ_s



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wI0L8iM5ZU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSLG3iFDIE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX3UG9x_fWw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXKHPZep0xM

 

[USER1999]

I am familiar with the process, and principals, and when I have honed my swing to such perfection that this is all that is left, will get it done. Sadly, my swing is junk, and if this adds the final 1/2% to the 20% I already have, I might just give it a miss. Keeping my flippin head down will reward far more.

 

[Region3]

In extreme cases it might explain why a player can't get on with one or two particular clubs, if the set is supposed to be regular shafts and 1 or 2 clubs play closer to senior flex?

 

[Ethan]

In extreme cases it might explain why a player can't get on with one or two particular clubs, if the set is supposed to be regular shafts and 1 or 2 clubs play closer to senior flex?

That is a different issue, though. The frequency for each iron can be plotted on a graph and should be a straight line. If one or two are out of sync, they will very likely be problem clubs. That is a problem which needs fixed.

Spine aligning is a different technique offering allegedly different benefits which are likely to be rather more modest, if they exist at all. I think this remains something for the guy who has everything, including a set of Tour only clubs with the latest prototype shafts and grips. And a Tour bag, probably.