Building up proper pole-shaft wood set. too heavy?

While I work up my irons on a recent topic, I submit my efforts towards a proper ABS wood set…

above are the ebay auction pics, and show what I bought. I chose these, because they are a pair, and still had the factory installed #1 Pro-pel shafts. Starting on the 1wood, and following the @lagpressure pdf on the procedure…

removed the screws and shaft

filled the shaft cavity

redrilled the shaft cavity at 50*

tipped the shaft 5”

reset the shaft

rebuilt the neck

drilled space for weights and set with epoxy

installed shaft extension

cut to 44”

installed tape and grip

rewhipped the neck

So, somewhere along the way, I set the lie close to 48*, and the weight 16.8oz. too much?

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Im interested to hear back about the launch and shot shape and if you have to do anything extra with the hands wrist and forearms to get a consistent shot shape at that weight and lie angle. Seems like most of the guys are hitting extremely low bullets that leak to the right so I’m definitely following this post to hear about your on course results.

Cheers

16.8 ounces is enormously heavy, let us know how that goes!

One thing I’ve not seen discussed too much here is the importance of the bore angle in the other dimension. If you angle the bore closer to the face than the original, it will effectively deloft or open the face depending how you grip it. If you angle the bore more to the back of the head it has the opposite effect.

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John plays his driver at 15.5oz.

Hogan and Moe 16oz.

You’re in uncharted territory brother.

Hit that sucker and let us know how it goes!

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1000% agree.Your point came into focus after I redrilled the shaft bore. I’m excited because it appears I got it just right redrilling the 2w. Will post more pics when I get the neck fully dressed.

Yeah, 16.8oz My 16.0oz 1iron now feels light…

Also, if I find the shaft angle isn’t right, too much/little loft, too heavy for me, I’ll disassemble the club and rebuild it. If that’s not right, I’ll do it again… and again.

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After an hour or so of hand-work with a file, I took these photos…

The black ink dot i placed on the sole was my “mark” when redrilling. When I reset the shaft, and checked the lie angle, it was nearly a perfect 51*. Drilling by hand, it was helpful to keep my left index finger on that dot as a reference.

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Piercing flight with crazy roll out I would guess.

Let us know how she gets on

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