The Shop

The pictures shown below are "clickable" for a large size.



The first picture, above, shows the bench arrangement I've come to believe is the most efficient given my space and assembly needs. Everything I need to assemble a club is in this area, from the frequency meter to clublength ruler to swingweight scale to a rotary tool for cutting graphite shafts.





From the end of the workbench, you can see how the spinjig used to align shafts is positioned to benefit from the straight lines drawn on the bench and clubmaking rule.





The frequency meter setup.





Managing shafts is a pain; I built this shaft rack roughly from plans in one of the Maltby books, adding casters on the bottom for easy movement.



The ferrule-turning station. The linen belt on the sander allows for smoothing the ferrule-hosel junction.



The shaft cutting arrangement I use for graphite shafts. The roto-tool has a nylon cutoff wheel; I've rigged up a dust collector from an old metal vacuum extender, attaching a shopvac to it. Both the roto-tool and vac are plugged into the outlet strip; turning on the red button starts them both.



This picture shows the GS Professional shaft puller, and a different club clamp. The flag is a memento of RSG-Atlanta 2001, the rec.sport.golf held in July of 2001.





Above shows a Neufinder, a device used for finding and marking the spines and neutral bending points (NBPs) on shafts. The gauge on the left is accurate to 1/1000th of an inch, allowing for exceedingly accurate determination of spines and NBPs.





Duelling sanders? The one on the left is for tip prepping graphite shafts; the one on the right for steel shafts.





A Golfworks "Golf Club Machine" is used to measure and adjust loft and lie of irons.



Sometimes, even after prepping, shafts won't fit into the hosel. The accepted way to deal with that is to carefully drill the hosel bore a bit larger. I also use the drill press setup for changing taper-tip hosels to parallel-tip hosels so that I can frequency-match irons.



My gripping and shipping station. I've tried the expensive gripping jigs, and keep coming back to a simple shaft clamp with the clubhead aligned with the edge of my workbench. The solvent catch-tray I made out of a drywall mud pan and a piece of aluminum bar stock. I also use this area for pulling shafts and drilling out clubhead hosels.