I have a set of S400s pullouts and a set of Hogan PC heads.
The shaft with grip weighs 179g and the 5i head weighs 242g. (My Golfsmith G40 5 iron head weighs 254g… I thought these older Hogan’s were heavy, guess not.)
When put together they balance (on the end of a razor) at 69.5325 centimeters.
I wanted to figure out the swingweights with an online calculator as I do not have a scale.
Don’t use the online calculators. Get them measured. I used an online calculator once and was 7 swingweight points off from what it said on TWO different scales.
My Apex PC’s came out to C9.
That’s with S300 shafts and some standard lamkin grips. I bet those PC’s are light, but not B8 light. Hogan’s for the most part from my experience come in about D-1 with a standard grip.
Also Pinz, those PC’s are from the 80’s so might not be as heavy as the heavy that Lag and others talk about when they’re talking about 60’s Hogans. Also, you didn’t buy those ladies clubs did you?
I have '63 IPT’s, '67 Percussions and '70 Bounce Sole 1+'s (along with the Apex PC’s) and all of them run at D-1 swingweight with a regular, 50 gram grip.
My guess is that with the S400’s, they’ll come out to close to D-1.
Not sure which calculator you used but those sort of figures will lead to C1-C2, still light but your club only weighs 421g.
My (standard) 5 iron, a D5, weighs 450g assembled and balances another 15mm closer to the head than yours. I can totally imagine yours is only only C1/C2.
btw: how did you measure the balance point so accurately - about 1/100th of the thickness of a human hair? Or did you convert it from inches?
are there any drawbacks to just tip weighting modern blade offerings? i am tired of trolling around ebay for a bargain also what is considered heavy for an old school blade head?
Raw weight: 437.92 (4.8g lighter than Lag’s specs)
Swingweight: D6 (added 7g of lead tape to achieve this)
Shafts: s500 (I cannot find that raw weight of these, but I am guessing 125-130g)
7 iron:
Raw weight: 454.7 (13g lighter than Lag’s specs! )
Swingweight: D6 (added 7g of lead tape to achieve this, most of the irons were D2.5)
9 iron:
Raw weight: 469.10 (12g lighter than Lag’s specs )
Swing weight: D6 (added 7g of lead tape etc)
So my questions are:
Pros/cons of tipweighting
What does an old school blade iron head weigh?
I know the easy route is to buy an old school set (I thought I had actually!) Seems that even blades got a bit light headed after say…1970! And yes I can estimate based on my numbers above but I am not certain about the weight of the s500s etc. Surely your can set up a “Lag Set” in the modern era!
I coach. I pretty much sold my best player on the heavy…stiff…flat business. But he is assuming that the modern blade is heavy. His “numbers” at the the club fitter were good. He is putting the KBS tour x-stiff tour shaft and having it swign weighted to D6. The clubfitter pitched a fit, but his numbers got better the heavier and stiffer he went! I am concerned that modern blades simply are not nearly as heavy as the old stuff…so what to do?