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Ask the Experts: “Step-by-step, how exactly is a golf shaft made?”

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Fujikura Vice President Alex Dee explains, step-by-step, how a golf shaft gets built, and what “prepreg” actually means. Enjoy the video below!

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  1. ogo

    Jul 22, 2018 at 1:42 pm

    Don’t buy a ‘new and improved’ driver annually. Keep your old driver and pop in a 7 Ereamers $1200 autoclave cured graphite shaft… and you will never buy another driver because the shaft is 90% of the driver swing… believe it!!!

    • ogo

      Jul 22, 2018 at 1:43 pm

      …ooops…. that’s: “…7 Dreamers…” …. my bad… 😮

      • Rascal

        Jul 22, 2018 at 5:41 pm

        No, you had it almost right. Just take out the first ‘E’ and you’d have it!

        • alas

          Jul 24, 2018 at 12:34 am

          Okay, but it’s likely you struggling with your deficient graphite shaft.

  2. Aaron

    Jul 20, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    I hope OGO realizes he is literally the first impression of the shaft company he continuously, agonizingly, harps on. The negative reaction many members feel towards him, are automatically transferred to the brand as well. Truth.

  3. Aaron

    Jul 20, 2018 at 10:52 am

    +1 for Rascal.

    -1 for OGO for constantly harping about Seven Dreamers

    • ogo

      Jul 20, 2018 at 3:36 pm

      … and you are a shaft ignoramus…. soooo obvious… 😛

  4. Rascal

    Jul 19, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    In before the seven dreamers guy chips in his two cents.

    • ogo

      Jul 19, 2018 at 11:39 pm

      … and still after 40 years of graphite shaft building they still can’t get it right because the oven-cured shafts are still overloaded with epoxy plastic… and that makes the shaft tip soggy and floppy… no matter how much exotic fibers are blended in because the epoxy weakens the tip.

      • Geohogan

        Jul 20, 2018 at 1:53 pm

        cpm for 7 dreamers?

        • ogo

          Jul 20, 2018 at 3:40 pm

          … better than floppy soggy oven-cured graphite over-epoxied cr*p shafts …!!!

    • ogo

      Jul 19, 2018 at 11:45 pm

      Also, they stiffen up the shafts by jacking up the weight to 125 grams, the same as steel. Then they increase shaft tip diameters from 0.335″ to 0.350″.. which increases torque resistance by 14% (cube of the diameters), but all to no avail. The best and only solution? Autoclave curing at high temperature to squeeze out excess epoxy… 7-Dreamers!

      • Rascal

        Jul 20, 2018 at 1:44 am

        Thank you, and here I was thinking that shafts grew on graphite trees!

        • ogo

          Jul 20, 2018 at 3:42 pm

          …. and now yer brainlet knows the difference between floppy soggy pizza oven-cured fujikura shafts and autoclave cured 7 Dreamers superior shafts. How does inferiority feeeel …. lol

    • Aaron

      Jul 20, 2018 at 10:51 am

      +1

      • ogo

        Jul 20, 2018 at 3:38 pm

        …. and you are word-challenged… soooo obvious… 😮

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