Bent shafts

[jvincent]

A question for the other clubmakers out there. How many of you have seen shafts bent just above the hosel through regular use?

I have been stinking it up with my irons this year, so I pulled them apart to add some weight to see if it would help and when I was putting them back together as I was spinning the shaft into the hosel I noticed that a few of them were spinning in an oval instead of straight in.

Pulled them out and sure enough the 5, 6, 8, and 9 shafts all had serious bends in them right above where the shaft enters the hosel.

DAMMIT! No wonder I've been spraying the ball.

The shafts in question are Project X and have been in play about 4 seasons.

Has anyone else seen this kind of thing?

[Chieflongtee]

No uncommon in steel shafts and in some graphite from any brand. Also called residual bend. People confuse this bend with a spine(which it is not) Best thing you can do is to align them in the same way i.e towards target or away or whatever.
Back in the old days clubmakers use to roll shafts on a flat table and discard the not so straight ones.

[jvincent]

I'm pretty sure this isn't residual bend since they were straight when I installed them.

It's also right at the hosel entry point so I'm pretty sure it's a post-installation bend due to ball/ground striking. I've actually had this happen once before with the original shafts in my TA-845s but those were a lightweight steel.

[buykrux]

my dads old set of ping eye2+s had the same thing
all the shafts right out of the hozel were bent from being played so much and taking divots
it never effected his game or the flight/direction of his ball
its going to be very hard to put them back in the way they came out tho

[tacks451]

I spoke to ping about this and they advised the shafts are garbage!! reshaft new

[bNeill]

Same happened with my S59s, because of the smaller tip diameter this happens more frequently

[buykrux]

maybe you need to make more contact with the ball and less contact with the ground

[tacks451]

haha obviously you dont play enough to understand the basics of a swing

[buykrux]

coming from the guy slicing a 7.5* X stiff

[downhillslider]

I have seen it many times and have never come up with an answer as to why this happens. I have a few theories, but that's about it.The convex part of the bend is always facing the target line.

BEWARE OF PULLS !!!

[tacks451]

haha and a guy talking that hits it 354 on a 360 par 4 and pars it
hahahah

[jvincent]

I have seen it many times and have never come up with an answer as to why this happens. I have a few theories, but that's about it.The convex part of the bend is always facing the target line.

BEWARE OF PULLS !!!

These were installed by me, brand new.

I'm a big divot taker, so that may be part of the issue, but I'm just curious how often it happens.

[tacks451]

Im a divot taker to, after a while it may make the iron a little stronger loft wise, but once its pulled its junk

[buykrux]

id take a bent shaft over a snapped one any day