Spineing or frequency matching?

[golf36732]

What is the most important? It is much cheaper to spine. You can buy shafts that are already both I think. It also seems to be easier to spine. I can build a spine finder myself.

[LowPost42]

Re: Spineing or frequency matching?

Man, if I could only pay for one or the other...

I'd pay for FLOing.

The thing about freq matching is that you can likely buy a set of shafts that are going to be close in the freq-sense. I'd much rather pay to know where they FLO so I can have them installed FLO-to-target.

Put another way - in the last week I FLOed two sets for a couple of scratch players. I checked freq's and they were all over the place (typical of an off-the rack and/or taper-tip set that hasn't been custom ordered). However, both players reported back increased distance, decreased dispersion, and better trajectory.

[golf36732]

Re: Spineing or frequency matching?

i guess that makes sense. when you find the spine you are trying to get the right flo. all spines probably don't give it the right flo i guess. the flo is the true flex of the shaft. thanks lowpost i am learning.

[LowPost42]

Re: Spineing or frequency matching?

Spining will find the heavy side of a shaft - whether it's the weld in steel or the last wrap in a filament wound shaft, or perhaps the residual bend in a shaft.

FLOing finds where the shaft wants to bend - and then aligns that plane to target.

Spine and FLO are often not one and the same.

[golf36732]

Re: Spineing or frequency matching?

Spining will find the heavy side of a shaft - whether it's the weld in steel or the last wrap in a filament wound shaft, or perhaps the residual bend in a shaft.

FLOing finds where the shaft wants to bend - and then aligns that plane to target.

Spine and FLO are often not one and the same.

that is what i was thinking. it doesn't matter where the spine is as long as you have the FLO correctly aligned. I just don't see how you can have both unless it just happens to be both.

Are most shafts frequency matched when you buy them in a set? Or is that just some brands?

[LowPost42]

Re: Spineing or frequency matching?

that is what i was thinking. it doesn't matter where the spine is as long as you have the FLO correctly aligned. I just don't see how you can have both unless it just happens to be both.

Are most shafts frequency matched when you buy them in a set? Or is that just some brands?

Most sets are NOT freq matched. You're hard-pressed to even get them custom ordered that way from OEM manufacturers - I'm currently only aware of Mizuno and Ping offering freq matched, and then only if you order Rifle shafts (although I'm not sure how it works anymore since True Temper bought out Royal Precision).

But freq matching is kind of outdated with the advent of shaft zone profiling - a TT DGS300 that freqs at 310 on a 254g head at 38" on a 5" clamp and a Rifle 5.5 that freqs the same STILL won't play the same, and may feel similar, but certainly not the same as the mid and tip zones bend differently in those two shafts.

The only time a single zone frequency is relevant is when you're comparing the same make and model - in other words, even comparing TT Dynamic Golds to a straight TT Dynamic doesn't match up as they're not the same shaft.

[golf36732]

Re: Spineing or frequency matching?

thanks lowpost. i am learning a lot through this site. gonna build my first set soon. i can't wait.