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JTexGolfer

 
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  1. Bad news just came in that he couldn't get my swing weights where I wanted them, which is admittedly a high SW for irons, so I will have to use some lead tape on these to get them up to D4. Going to try thin strips on top of the muscle cavity and then sharpie that last one so it will hopefully blend in.
  2. Me too! I have heard good reviews but time will tell. Nick's prices are hard to beat though so if they make it a year looking good it was worth it. $270 to have those done, shafts spine aligned and reinstalled. I thought that was very reasonable. Others charge up to $50 a head with no clean up of the heads before hand. Nick touched these up before they were refinished and to me they look like new. A couple of the heads had quite a bit of bag chatter that wasn't evident in the pictures.
  3. Got great news from Nick today, the irons were finished ahead of schedule and should ship back out to me tomorrow, which is a good two weeks sooner than anticipated. For a reminder, this is what my heads looked like before: And here is the picture of my iron heads that Nick sent me today: I will post more pictures when the assembled irons arrive and wear pics as they start to get used.
  4. Awesome Rev can't wait to hear the first reports back. Remember it may take a couple rounds to get comfortable with it so give it time.
  5. I believe you are right on this, or at least I couldn't find anyone that offered it. Reviews I have read about it say that it is a great wearing finish.
  6. One of the main reasons I started this thread was to catalog how well (or not) that the finish wears. Lots of threads on other sites about finishes but not many pictures. They get forgotten after one or two rounds or maybe one long range session, but I want to catalog how well these wear. I practice and play a lot so these will get a work out one way or the other. The only long term pictures I found of DLC were Horschels PXG irons and they looked really beat up and uneven. But if they Nitride doesn't work on these I may go that route with another set. Or just buy a set of DBM Maltbys lol. I know I want black irons and I haven't been able to find the info I wanted so i am going to try and create it, whether that result is good or bad. Hopefully if others have their irons done they will do the same so we can actually compare the finishes once they have been used hard.
  7. I have seen varying accounts of how well DLC holds up. Saw a WITB for Horschel when he still had the black PXG irons and they looked really rough. I know each coating has it's + and - though. Hope I chose the right one. Main decision point for me though was that Tiger Nick does spine aligning and club assembly for same or less price as others would do just the heads. I'll keep everyone informed on how the black nitride holds up.
  8. Mine absolutely transformed from pretty good to holy cow this is awesome with a shaft only fitting. Finding the right shaft for your swing is a great experience. That said Ping has a very good catalog of shafts.
  9. So as discussed in other threads on here I have decided to send my trusty Srixon Z765's off to Tiger Nick Golf in Ohio to get a Black Nitride coating put on them. I love black weges with a white bottom score line on them and have had better luck aiming that color combination so I figured I would give it a try with my current iron set. I have been playing these irons with UST Recoil 95 shafts in them but decided to go with Steelfiber i110cw's for the irons that Nick will be sending. I had tested that shaft in a 6 iron and wedge and liked the consistency I got with it slightly better than the Recoils. The Z765's look like this new: And this is what I am hoping to get them to look like: I pulled the heads and send shafts and grips to Nick last week. The 9 iron and PW were new heads as I had used them a ton and wanted some newer grooves to be sent off. As part of his service he will strip the old chrome from my heads, refinish in matte Black Nitride, spine align the shafts and assemble the clubs to a pre-agreed swingweight. I prefer a heavy D5 iron swingweight and he was up front that he might not be able to achieve that swing weight with the Steelfiber shafts. Hopefully I won't have to put lead tape back on these like I had before but if so at least he was very up front about it. Here are the heads as they were sent off: And this is what the Black Nitride should look like: I was told to expect a 4-5 week turnaround but I heard from Nick the middle of this week and it looks like I might get lucky and get them back in 2-3. I'll post pics of the finsihed products here. Communication has been great so far so I have my fingers crossed that these turn out great.
  10. Mine was able to get 36 holes in no problem on a full charge, but I don't think it would have made it 54.
  11. My comment on ShotScope V2 is that it is very accurate but where you play will limit how useful some of the data is. Here in South Texas we have so much wind that it made the distance calculation somewhat useless. For instance last week I played back to back holes, one into the wind one with it. I hit a full 9 iron pin high from 125 one hole and a full nine iron pin high from 175 on the next hole. Both were good strikes. All of my rounds down here are like that so i just didn't find it that beneficial for me. The short game information on the other hand was very informative.
  12. Yeah that branding is a huge turn off for me as well. They should take a page out of the Ping playbook. Look nice though so hopefully they will participate in most wanted testing.
  13. That is one thick top line.
  14. I would be very wary of anything from this company. It all seems very late night infomercialish.
  15. Love this thread and even more so since a pastor started it! (Born again believer here but the golf gods are hard to deny) The golf gods have a sick, demented sense of “humor”. Your all time best shots are often during your all time worst rounds.
  16. To me irons are definitely the easiest to go “back” with. Just have to find something with the offset top line and turf interaction you want and you're good to go! Woods I know I'm going back too much on tech and wedges are hard to find that aren't already worn out groove wise.
  17. Those are very intriguing! Have never seen them before. Wish someone would make a Cord Dylagrip or something like this in Cord.
  18. Switched to Srixon Z star some months back from Pro V1. I feel like I get the same distance off the driver with less side spin on all shots. The Z Star performs in the South Texas winds much better for me than the Pro V1.
  19. 36 front 35 back par 71. Three par threes on the back nine.
  20. +3 front nine and +1 coming in. The +3 wasn't even the balls fault. I made a double on a par 5 that was just dumb decision making on my part and then getting frustrated and wasting a shot or two. Short game shots were really frustrating with the rock ball. I'm used to a tour ball check up so I was picking my landing spots based on that so I ran a lot of chips and pitches 12-15 feet by.
  21. Challenge accepted. I added to the difficulty by not washing my Callway HX Hot for the entire round. If you are gonna play a crap ball it might as well look like crap! This thing has "0 SPINS" and "-2 FEELS" as measured using the Titleist Tour Soft measurements. Shot a 75 and then threw this bad boy in the lake where it belongs. I appreciate my Srixon Z Star's even more now!
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