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I acquired seven TaylorMade SLDR 57g senior iron shafts, 41.5″, no trimming instructions included.  I am building 5 thru GW with Adams XTD heads for a left-handed 75 yr old.  He is a former professional tennis player and a good athlete.  He usually shoots even to 4 over on our local 3200yd 9-hole track.  He would like the clubs to be as stiff as possible.  How should I tip trim the shafts to achieve this?

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26 minutes ago, sekerbs said:

I acquired seven TaylorMade SLDR 57g senior iron shafts, 41.5″, no trimming instructions included.  I am building 5 thru GW with Adams XTD heads for a left-handed 75 yr old.  He is a former professional tennis player and a good athlete.  He usually shoots even to 4 over on our local 3200yd 9-hole track.  He would like the clubs to be as stiff as possible.  How should I tip trim the shafts to achieve this?

Closest information i could find is 1" starting at 4 iron and then it half inch increments, up to 4" for wedges, and the butt trim to length. 

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Just to clarify, are these 7 .370 parallel tip shafts?  Or are they .355 taper tip?  If parallel then you can tip trim to adjust the stiffness.  If they are taper tip then you have seven of the same iron shaft and shouldn't be used in a full set build.

 

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2 hours ago, hckymeyer said:

Just to clarify, are these 7 .370 parallel tip shafts?  Or are they .355 taper tip?  If parallel then you can tip trim to adjust the stiffness.  If they are taper tip then you have seven of the same iron shaft and shouldn't be used in a full set build.

 

I had assumed that they were parallel shafts, but makes sense to never assume

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Tester for the Titleist TSi Driver

Spring 2020 MGS Tester for the Fujikura Motore X Shaft

Updated 07/15/2022
Driver:callaway-small: Rogue St Max LS - Autoflex
Fairway Woods:callaway-small: Rogue Max St 3HL and 7 Wood
Irons:mizuno-small: JPX 921 Hot Metal 5 to AW - Aerotech Steelfiber i95 Stiff parallel tip
Wedges:ping-small: Glide 4.0 54 and 58
Putter:  :ping-small: PLD Custom Kushin 4

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On 12/9/2020 at 1:44 PM, RI_Redneck said:

A cheap set of calipers from Home Depot will tell you.

BT

and unit to measure flex.

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Irons - 5-pw, GW stnd length 5.0 flex same grip 1 deg flat. Type low medium offset cavity back, no diggers

Wedges - 56 and 60 tour grind wedge spinner and mcc4+ grip 2 flat 10 and 8 in bounce

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3 hours ago, McGolf said:

and unit to measure flex.

Slightly off-topic of this thread, but it took me a while to connect that the videos of club building on youtube that I have been watching are you.

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Tester for the Titleist TSi Driver

Spring 2020 MGS Tester for the Fujikura Motore X Shaft

Updated 07/15/2022
Driver:callaway-small: Rogue St Max LS - Autoflex
Fairway Woods:callaway-small: Rogue Max St 3HL and 7 Wood
Irons:mizuno-small: JPX 921 Hot Metal 5 to AW - Aerotech Steelfiber i95 Stiff parallel tip
Wedges:ping-small: Glide 4.0 54 and 58
Putter:  :ping-small: PLD Custom Kushin 4

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On 12/22/2020 at 3:22 PM, dlow206 said:

Slightly off-topic of this thread, but it took me a while to connect that the videos of club building on youtube that I have been watching are you.

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