Wood Shafts
Sorted on our own deflection readings, not on the flex letter printed near the tip.
- Fujikura
- Mitsubishi
- Graphite Design
- Project X
- Aldila
- UST Mamiya
Components
What Sits on the Rack, and Why It Is There
Nobody buys placement in this building. Every line below stayed because it kept producing outcomes we could point at on a spec card, and several well-known lines are absent for exactly the opposite reason.
Iron Shafts
Steel and graphite both stocked in raw lengths so trims are set here, not at a warehouse.
- Nippon
- True Temper
- KBS
- Project X
- Aerotech
- Recoil
Heads
Fitting heads for every line below live in the bays; production heads are ordered to spec.
- Titleist
- Ping
- Mizuno
- Callaway
- Srixon
- Cobra
Grips
Compounds chosen for how they behave in dry heat, which rules out several popular options.
- Golf Pride
- Lamkin
- SuperStroke
- Iomic
- Winn
- Pure
Putters
Fitted on the indoor stroke rig before any head is ordered.
- Odyssey
- Bettinardi
- L.A.B. Golf
- Ping
- TaylorMade
- Evnroll
Bench Consumables
The unglamorous half of the inventory, and the half that decides whether a build lasts.
- Tip weights
- Ferrules
- Shafting epoxy
- Grip tape
- Lead tape
- Solvent
Policy
Independence Is a Structural Choice, Not a Slogan
Plenty of shops describe themselves as independent while running volume agreements that quietly make one manufacturer far more attractive to recommend. We do not hold any such agreement, and the reason is boring rather than noble: a recommendation that is influenced by margin cannot also be a measurement, and measurement is the only thing we are selling.
The practical consequence is that our rack is smaller than a big-box wall and considerably better curated. Sixty-four shaft models is fewer than some fitting centres advertise. It is also more than any honest session will ever get through, and every one of them earned its slot.
How a Line Gets Dropped
- Published specs that do not survive our own caliper and analyser
- Unit-to-unit variation wide enough to make a build unrepeatable
- Grip compounds that go slick or hard within one desert summer
- Supply timelines that leave a customer waiting a month for a reshaft
- Adhesive or ferrule failures we have had to warranty more than once
If We Do Not Stock It
Bring it anyway. We build with customer-supplied components regularly and charge the same bench labour we charge for our own stock. The only thing we ask is that a shaft arriving from elsewhere is raw or clearly labelled with what has already been trimmed off it, because a mystery trim is the fastest way to a club that cannot be reproduced.
For anything we can source but do not keep on the rack, expect a lead time rather than an immediate answer. Most iron shaft models arrive within a week. Limited-run wood shafts occasionally take a month and we will say so before you commit.
On counterfeits: the market for fake premium wood shafts is real and the copies have become convincing. Anything supplied by a customer gets weighed, measured and put on the analyser before we cut it. If the numbers are wrong we will show you why, and we will not build with it.
Grips Deserve Their Own Paragraph
In this climate a grip is a consumable with a season, not an accessory with a lifetime. Compounds that stay tacky through a Midwest summer can turn glazed here by August, and the difference in how a slick grip changes hand pressure is large enough to show up in delivered loft.
That is why our grip selection is deliberately narrow and skews toward cord and firmer rubber compounds. It is also why we log wraps per club on the spec card, so a regrip next spring reproduces the size instead of resetting it to whatever the person holding the tape decides.
Come and Handle the Rack
Sessions include as much time with the components as you want. Nobody will hurry you toward a particular shelf.