Components
Bought outright, stocked by what works, not by contract
Nothing on these shelves is consigned and no manufacturer has placement here. Every head and every shaft in the library was paid for by this shop, which is why the recommendation can go anywhere.
- Shafts in library
- 190 plus, wood and iron
- Head models on hand
- Around 60
- Brand quotas
- None
Shafts
The largest part of the libraryThe shaft rack holds every major graphite manufacturer you would expect to see in a fitting cart, plus a deep bin of steel in the profiles that actually get used around here. It also holds a fair amount of stock that is two or three seasons old, which is deliberate. Shaft profiles do not expire. A discontinued model that measures right for your load pattern is a better club than a current model that does not, and it will usually cost a third as much.
Everything in the rack has been through our own frequency analyser and the measured numbers are written on the shaft, not the printed flex letter. A shaft labelled stiff from one house and a shaft labelled stiff from another can be nine cpm apart at the same length. We fit to the measured number and ignore the letter entirely.
What the rack holds
- Wood graphite profiles96
- Iron graphite profiles31
- Steel iron profiles44
- Wedge specific12
- Putter shafts and inserts9
All measured in house and marked with butt frequency at a reference length, so two profiles can be compared honestly.
Heads
Ordered per build, tested from the libraryWe keep test heads rather than sale stock. That is the important distinction. When you hit six driver heads on this bench, all six are shop-owned test units with the shaft swapped through an adapter, so the only variable that changes is the one we are testing. Retail floors often hand you six complete demo clubs with six different shafts in them, which makes the comparison worthless.
Once the head is chosen we order it new through a distributor, and it is built here. That adds a few days to turnaround and it is the reason we cannot sell you something today. It also means you receive a head with no demo mileage on the face, which for wedges in particular matters more than most people realise.
Forged, cast, hollow body, muscle back, mallet, blade putter, high toe wedge, wide sole utility: all of it is available and none of it is pushed. The head is normally the last decision in a session and often the least consequential one, which surprises people who came in with a brand in mind.
Grips, ferrules and the small parts
Around thirty grip models in every core size we can get, plus a full tape stock so build-up can be tuned in single wraps rather than jumping straight to a midsize. Most golfers who think they need midsize actually need standard plus two wraps under the lower hand, and that is a five dollar answer rather than a fifty dollar one.
Ferrules are stocked in turned and untuned form for every hosel bore we commonly see. A ferrule is cosmetic right up until it is not: a poorly seated one leaves a shoulder gap that collects water, and in a Wisconsin winter that water freezes inside the hosel. We turn ferrules to the head on the lathe rather than pressing an approximate one on and calling it done.
Epoxy is a two part structural product with a documented cure schedule, and we do not rush it. That is a real part of why builds take six to nine days rather than two. Cure time is not queue time, it is chemistry, and shortening it shows up eighteen months later as a head that rotates on the shaft.