D-point and scale weight are not the same argument
Two clubs can weigh exactly the same on the scale and read a full point apart on the balance. Where that difference actually lives, and which of the two numbers you should care about.
Bench log
Notes written at the vice, not at a marketing desk
Six entries so far, each one written because the same question kept arriving at the shop and a phone call was not long enough to answer it properly.
- Written by
- Whoever did the work
- Publishing rate
- When there is something to say
The swingweight your regrip quietly took away
A grip change moves mass at the far end of a long lever. Do it three times over five years without recording anything and the set you built has drifted somewhere nobody chose.
Butt-end mass: what a counterweight actually moves
Counterweighting is sold as a feel adjustment and treated as magic. It is neither. It is a lever arm calculation with two honest use cases and several dishonest ones.
Turned ferrules and the shoulder gap nobody measures
A ferrule that looks perfect from three feet away can still be sitting on a gap you could park a business card in. In a Wisconsin winter that gap holds water, and water freezes.
Reading hand pressure before you add tape wraps
Adding a wrap is cheap and takes four minutes, which is exactly why it gets done for the wrong reason. The glaze pattern on your old grip already told you the answer.
Which bench numbers we calibrate, and how often
A tolerance window is a promise about measurement, and a measurement is only as honest as the instrument taking it. Here is the schedule, including the two gauges that drift most.
Why the log exists
Every entry here started as a question somebody asked across the counter, usually while their clubs were on the gauges. The answers are long because the honest ones are long, and because there is a lot of confidently wrong material about club building on the internet written by people who have never pulled a head.
Nothing in the log is a product recommendation and none of it is sponsored. If an entry helps you decide you do not need to spend money here, it has done its job. If you want the numbers on your own clubs rather than a general explanation, the sixty-five dollar tolerance audit is the fastest way to get them.