How to Build Golf Clubs 101 + Easy DIY Club Repair
Have you ever owned an iron or set of irons you had zero confidence in hitting? No matter what you did, you couldn’t hit consistent shots with them. Likewise, have you heard your golfing buddies complain about certain clubs after they send the ball out of play? In most cases, your swing is to blame, but there are times when the quality and design of an iron can determine your results.
I’m going to teach you golf club building techniques that the tour pros receive regularly. As a bonus, I’ll share how to build clubs so you can save some money for green fees, balls, and the “19th Hole.”
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Golf Club Building Materials:
Golf Club Head Spiral Brush
Two-Part, Long Cure Epoxy
Manual Pipe Tubing Cutter (steel shaft only)
Mini Hacksaw (graphite shaft only)
Mixing Stick (I use a long tee)
Head-to-Shaft Drying Clip (not required)
Digital Scale
Lead Tape or Tip Weights
Golf Club Length Ruler (not necessary unless you don’t know the total shaft length)
Sandpaper
Ferrule Kit
Lint Free Paper Towels
Re-Grip Kit
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Hi everyone welcome to the senior golf Source my name is Brett Francisco and it looks like I’ve got a problem here have you ever reached into your bag and notice that there was a gap between where this metal on your golf club head and the feral this black piece meet over
Time sometimes if you leave your golf clubs in hot or dry climates um they’ll heat up they’ll get cold and with that the glue the epoxy that’s inside of this tends to break down and what’ll wind up happening is it either flies off in the middle of your shot after impact or you
Look in your bag and you’re missing a club head so I’m going to show you how to fix this with remedies around the house that way you can take care of this it’s totally easy to do and I’m going to show you some very specific specific ways on how to go about It okay so here are the items that you’re going to need in order to reshaft your club we have odorless mineral spirits that will be used as a lubricant for the grip when we install the new grip we have a wire fitting brush to help get rid of
Debris in the hosle we have a hook blade to help remove the grip that’s on the shaft right now um if you’re using a metal shaft a regular blade is okay but if you’re using a graphite shaft you’ll definitely want the hook blade that way
You don’t scar up the paint on your your shaft you’ll need some sandpaper to abraid the tip of the club or tip of the shaft and you also need epoxy I like a a two-part epoxy a part A and A Part B preferably I use the 3M epoxy that has a
PSI rating of 4500 um you can get the job done with a lower PSI rating but you could very well wind up in the same situation where you’re having to reshaft the same Club again so get a strong PSI rating on your epoxy and you shouldn’t have to revisit this
Okay so the first thing I like to do is removing the oak grip now prior to the installation of your shaft that came out make sure you look at your other irons and look at the orientation of the tape or the logos that are on the shaft and
Make sure that it matches up so you can see by the orientation of the script that the Golf Pride writing is centered down the shaft so if I were to flip this over you’ll see that the logo in the shaft is underneath okay so aesthetically if you
Want to make things look right and perform well let’s make sure that we pay attention to the orientation so I know when I’m going to install this shaft when I get everything cleaned up that the logo is going to go down all right so I’ll start with the hook blade
I’m going to just simply place it right underneath and cutting away from me I’ll just move directly down and you’ll find that sometimes there can be a fair amount of tape underneath uh sometimes maybe you took your clubs to another person to regrip them and they didn’t take off the old
Tape um now it’s pretty important that we remove this um if it’s really sticky you can use use like a hair dryer or a heat gun um for a couple of seconds just pass over it and it should come off um in a lot of cases you can just start it
With your fingernails and work it off this is probably going to be one of the most time consuming things that you’ll need to do but we do need to clean this Off okay so now that I have removed all the grip tape from the butt end of the shaft I want to make sure that I look down the shaft and see that there is light at the end so if we look at it here you can see down the shaft right
There where it is free of debris so I know that from the butt end of the shaft to the tip end of the shaft there’s nothing that’s obstructing the inside of it we don’t want anything on the inside because that’s going to to actually sometimes make it very difficult to install this
Shaft into a head it creates an air pocket and it’s going to push the shaft continually out so since this shaft came off just due to the elements of nature hot and cold the feral itself has been saved so what I’m going to do is clean up the tip
I’m going to use my sandpaper and I’m going to go around the tip into the club wrapping it like so and I’m simply just going to go back and forth try to get up as close as I can to that [Applause] hosle and I should see some of the metal
Start to shine now that’s how I know I’ve abided the metal and gotten the glue off I want to do this until I have a nice prep tip Okay now we’re ready to clean out the hosle if you look down in the hosle itself you’ll see that there is residual glue and what I’m going to do is just take my fitting brush I’m going to jam it down inside and I’m going to slowly work it and twist it right and
Left to the point where some of that debris does come out and I’m going to do this for a while until I have a fully clean hosle um if you need to maybe use your your light on your phone just to look at and see if
There’s any debris all the way down at the bottom okay so let’s say that your feral has been damaged and you need a new one uh first thing I would say recommended is to jump on Google look at the manufacturer’s website and you’ll be able to tell what size feral and you
Might even be able to get the ferals from them but because this feral is good I’m going to reuse it otherwise if you need a new one a really good method of practice is to take your tea insert it into the cleaned hazle and you’re going to measure that
With that length either with a sharpie or with some painters tape and you’re going to make sure that the distance that that te and the distance to my hosle are the same and as you can see they are so I know that I’ve cleaned out the huzzle of
The club effectively so now I can go ahead and get ready to insert this so I will start with pushing out the epoxy and I only need about a a qu worth in diameter and I’m going to go ahead and mix this with the tea until it almost becomes a little
Cloudy so I’ll scoop it up and I’m going to place it inside the actual hosle of the club rolling it around ensuring that it has compl completely lubricated the inside carefully take it out scoop up some more epoxy and now I’m going to brush it onto the abated tip of the
Shaft and now when I insert again we need to make sure that we get the logo in the right cor the right direction but I always like to put it in with a clockwise rotation so here I am I’m getting the the logo in the proper spot so if I’m looking at the
Club you can see that the logo is on the underside so here there is some extra epoxy that settled I’m just simply going to clean that off and for good measure I like to take this club by the butt end and tap it on the ground just to ensure a nice clean
Fit double check my alignment make sure that there isn’t any residual epoxy on the feral or the hosle and once I’ve got that in there we are good to go so the next step I will show you how to install the grip Okay so so now I’m going to regrip
The club um first I want to make sure that my grip tape is not longer than the actual grip itself um reason behind that is if you make it longer the grip is the tape is going to be exposed down the shaft and it can get sticky it can let
Residue leak down the shaft and make it really sticky and plus it just looks not professionally done so I want to make sure that I mark it properly so looking at the ual grip on the shaft I want to make sure that the tape does not exceed
Downward so now that I know where I need to put it I’ll go ahead and put the tape on uh this is a double-sided tape that I got and I’ll first start by putting it on the actual shaft and as you notice I’ve let it extend on the butt end of
The club I did that for a reason so I don’t get any materials down the actual shaft now that I’ve got that in position I’ll go ahead and remove the backing to the tape so now this is sticky so I like to use my palm um just to kind to get it
To adhere to the actual shaft itself and then I like to twist the end of it and push it in so now the tape is there I need to get the mineral spirits and I’m going to fill it in the mouth end of the grip and I’m going
To place my finger over the hole on the butt end of the grip that way it doesn’t get out so I’ll fill it up I like to fill it up about a quar of the way uh this part is really important that you get the tape very lubricated
Otherwise it’s going to stick and it’s going to not go on the actual shaft so if you have to just for the sake of this video I’m going to go ahead and just pour some on the actual tape itself now that was excessive but again just for learning
Purposes I’m getting this one here very easy because it is lubricated so now now that I know that it’s on there I’m going to turn it and make sure that it looks like it’s in line with my club face so if you have like any Gra Graphics or
Anything you want to make sure that the logo of the grip matches up with the Leading Edge of the club outside of that I’ve done my job now I’m just going to take a t and I’m going to stab it in the end of this just to release if there’s
Any air I’m going to go ahead because of the generous amount of fluid that I used I’m going to wipe down the shaft with a paper towel wipe off the grip and I’m gonna let this set for at least an hour um before I go make any Swings with
It or hit any balls but you should be good to go um it does drive faster than an hour but I always like to just say an hour just to be safe so there you have It
