Golf Grip Install tips and tricks

I show you how to install grips the regular way and with air, the do’ and donts for grip installation using solvent or air and a tip how to install a grip when you dont have a head.

getting a grip on your golf club we’re going to show you how to install a grip properly easily with stuff that you can probably do at the house welcome back to the golf shop jimmy Clear here and this is where we talk about golf club repairs reviews and fittings all so your scores can go low if you would like subscribe hit that stuff across the bottom that way more of this information gets out to the YouTube universe we also have a live stream on Mondays called What’s in My Drawers Golf Talk talking about the same exact stuff except for it’s 101 if you got a question ask away and you’ll get a live answer right there if I know the answer so let’s get started so we’re talking about grips all right we’re talking about a grip i am building a Mazuno uh hot metal high for a lady golfer and she needed one i think she broke one anyway we’re going to install a grip and we’ve been doing a lot of grips here in the last week so it must be that time of year we’re going to install a wind dry tack mid now the mids are not uncommon for ladies cuz ladies have tend to have longer fingers and if you lay the if you lay that grip in the finger and you roll it over it actually needs a slightly larger grip so ladies if you’re watching or guys with even you think “Oh I got smaller hands i have to have these really really small grips.” But if you’re laying it in here like that then you’re good to go the other part we want to talk about is where you place it you know there’s always going to be some sort of constrnation on when where and how you’re going to make a grip whether it’s in the whether you put in the palm or the fingers or whether you put it in the palm or how you grip it right ju just let’s put it this way from a fitter’s perspective the further that this grip starts getting into the hand here the bigger the grip is going to need to be all right so for those of you guys that are doing the 10 finger or the baseball grip that are going like this you’re going to need a slightly larger grip it’s not that it’s a bad grip that’s just the function of it okay second thing is don’t get fooled by just going “Hey grab it on the back and let’s see what it’s about.” Absolutely not what you want to do is grip on both sides right whether you’re doing like this whether you’re doing like this or whether you’re doing like that matters not right you want both hands why is that because this has a gapping as well okay and you want about the same you want just a little bit of a gap to just barely touching right is proper sizing and for both right whether you’re 10 fingering it here or you’re interlocking or you’re overlapping or any of that stuff so the guys that are baseballing and what we’re finding now is even more so u a lot of other ones is the low taper grip for the guys that are 10-fingered and we’re seeing a lot of it with on the tour that’s the reason why you see MCC 4 pluses or low taper grips now because we always wanted the hand be bigger so that it didn’t overturn the club a little bit all right for me I’ I’ve been putting two rolls of or two wraps of tape under my bottom hand since forever it just felt better okay that’s just the bottom line it just felt better for me all right so this is going to be a traditional way of doing it but we will talk about the air install and stay a little bit later i’ll have a tip for you for installing something without a head on it all right so let’s get to it so I’ve got my I’ve got my uh club already in the in the vice i’m going to move you over here okay the first thing we’re going to do is install some tape now in order to install the right amount of tape what you want to do is you line it up so just the butt end or the cap of the grip is beyond beyond the end of the shaft and then just at the back side of the the throat of the grip now what you’ll see on I’ll show you on this one this is a traditional rubber grip and if you look at it we would start it right here and we ended it right there so why do we do that and there’s another one here we’ve got some that don’t have lines but they still have a butt cap and they still have that and see and if you notice they’re a little different so you want to measure these things each and every time that you do them why is that so when you’re putting the tape on it doesn’t extend uh past the end of the grip so that you don’t have an ugly install job all right get your 2-in tape run it up to the end of your the end of your mark and what I do here is and this is a pro tip is that I have my finger sitting back here and it’s resting against the edge of the grip so that I know I have a little overhang because we’re going to want to cap the back end of the grip or the back end of the shaft so we roll over the tape making sure we don’t have any any wrinkle that we don’t have any wrinkles and we either twist or fold the back end so it’s capped so now we have a prepped surface now the other part here this is where you can have different different methods this one just to me seems the neatest you have a weehole in the back the weephole is meant to be plugged because when you go to push this on it’s going to create a small pressure along with the solvent in order to allow you to slide that’s where the air pressure movement comes in okay so you can I’ve seen people put golf tees in here i don’t I don’t just do that i just think it’s an extra step we don’t need however that’s the reason why I wear this in case it does decide to squirt on me now the the for most people more solvent is better than less you want to get the inside coated very well move your finger out let it drain make sure you get every drop on that on that tape you’re going to put your finger back over that you’re going to wedge that on there and just push from the back why do we push from the back because we want that air to get up on here and we don’t want to be grabbing it here and sliding it because when you go and slide it you have a real opportunity to stretch the grip now on this one it’ll be pretty hard but on a rubber grip I mean if you go to push it on you watch this right you have that opportunity and when you do that you make the grip smaller than that’s designed and we’re not for that all right so now you get it on you don’t want to mess around and you just want to make sure the top of your grip is going right down this 12:00 to the bottom of the iron head we tap it just to make sure we really check our alignment again and then All right then we then then we take a I just have a paper towel i dip it in the solvent and I rub it up and down just to get any excess dirt I might have on it wipe it down and then it’s done off and it dries up so you you get just a little bit on your hands which you want to wash off but you don’t get a whole bunch on your hands and you don’t get it on here so that’s where that’s going so next we’re going to you we’re going to talk about air right we’re going to talk about air so I have another set of Mazunos I’m building i’m just going to use this as an example so what you would do is and using air right i have an air grip here so what we want to do is um and you can put it on naked you know you could set it on here you would put it in here like this and you would grip it matter of fact give me a second i’ll be right back all right so here we go this is something I’ve This is impromptu as they get so I’m going to take this one off because it’s not cut yet but here’s the idea you got to have a gun you got to have a compressor you got to have some hose in order to make this thing go uh in a lot of cases what I would suggest is the blue blue painter tape so that it has a particular size however uh is it required the people that make like Star Grip who really are proponents of air install would say no i would say try it now on another one is I would also uh start with maybe a little bit of tape of that blue tape right in this particular area and it doesn’t have to be blue no it can be can be this stuff the idea is just so the grip doesn’t get caught right there we go we’ll just tear that piece off there there we go all right so we got our Now the thing with this is you got to get your alignment lines on get the get the thing set in there and then let’s see if we can get this thing going there we go as you can tell I used enough air to get my air compressor going and it’s on pretty decent right i like it we got on there i’ve got it aligned that was the thing I was really concentrating on making it happen that way all right so now we’ve got it on and you want to get off now we’ll talk about this one a little bit if this is a regularly installed grip I would not recommend using air why is that because what happens is the tape forms a bond with this rubber and what happens is you blow up pieces of this grip and you really have the opportunity of injury or damaging the grip of significant amount now if you’re going to take it off and you’re ripping it off who cares but if you’re looking at saving it that’s problematic all right so let’s take this bad boy off so there we go pretty easy off let’s see if we can get it to go back on again there we go again on and off so that’s air all right air takes a air has uh needs more components to it in order to make it happen uh versus basically a knife and a trough however u it is what it is if you got it fine if you don’t fine too all right talking about using it at home so I’ve got a speed clamp that I put into a vise do you need a speed clamp know you can use this this is what they call a vice clamp and it’ll snap right onto here even in the big spots and the vise will clamp into this particular area three bucks okay and you can use that just fine and then you can put it on so those are some of howto’s on putting on now the one thing I want to tell you is the dos and the don’ts is don’t stop once you start putting your grip on don’t stop now with the air you can get away with it but not with the solvent you get halfway and you stop it’s going to be really hard to keep that momentum going then you can adjust it all you want all right so onto the onto the pro tip so what we have here is a tailor made that came in broke and that I’m reshafting so normally what you would get you would get the head and you could align it with the head right you would put it up and down and that’s the way to go however what if you don’t have the head let’s try this i’m going to What if you don’t have the head the easiest way to do it is every one of these every one of these adapters has what would be a standard loft or a zero and they’re all on the back okay why am I telling you this because I just got uh another request for more grips and the gentleman likes logo up some like logo down and I was always struggling with how do I get this logo up to look really really good when you have this part that you want on the shaft because 99 times out of a 100 you you’re putting the logo down much like we did here on the recoil you know and and how do you line that all up so what you do is you get to the standard loft you lay this thing straight up and down there we go you get it straight up and down and it very well may not sit real good in there for you let’s see if this will move nope it’s there okay and we’re going to put our tape on oh I got to put a We’re going to put the tape on then we’re going to take it off okay let me get this okay if we look at that it’s looking pretty good for the tape right we got no no wrinkles and what we want to do is we get the back bottom side so this one has just a small logo on it and if we wanted logo down we would put this on top because we are looking at the back side of the club right now and then we would put it on like that but if we wanted logo up we would just change it because the bottom side of these things and we’re going to do it logo down the bottom side of these things also have lines on it there we go and we get in there tamp it down now the real trick is did I do any good let’s find out now the reason why I showing you this is that the requests I get I normally I get them and I don’t get any of the heads so I always have to use that and there it is it’s straight in there and what we’re looking at now with the logo down is you see that there’s the lines the lines here and the lines here going straight down into the shaft so we have that so it’s looking pretty good we like that a whole bunch all righty so all right so that’s doing grips in a nutshell so a small vice uh a grip a grip clamp that’s what I like to call them a grip clamp some solvent and a place to capture it whether it be a trash can or a a paint can or a paint tray whatever you want to do now I have my rig that gives me my tape you can stretch it out cut it and peel the backside off of it it’s not a big deal but that’s just one of the easiest ways one of the easiest repairs that you can do to help your golf clubs last a little longer you can do in house and save a little bit of money if not take them to a professional and they can do them and they can do them pretty fast mrs mcgolf does them all the time for us all right so hopefully you like what you saw like and subscribe join us on the live stream