After trimming to the different shaft lengths required for each head number, the shaft companies then squeeze down the parallel tip into a tapered configuration. Pretty much every other taper tip steel iron shaft today is made from a parallel tip blank model. In which the taper tip version weighs the same for each shaft. Pattern from True Temper is one of the very few steel shafts Since the tour players liked the taper tipĭynamic, the OEMs stayed with this shaft in their forged ironsĪnd all the heads were made with a tapered bore. The Dynamic iron shaft because that is what the tour players Manufacturers, ie TaylorMade, Ping, Nike) were offered with Most of the forged irons from all the OEMs (Original Equipment Each taper tip shaft is built to length for a specific iron and is the same weight throughout the set of irons 355 inch, slightly smaller than a parallel tip. The standard tip diameter for a taper tip iron shaft is. As a result, the tip cannot be trimmed without changing its diameter, meaning it would not fit in the club head.
Diference between parallels and parallels pro full#
In a full set, was actually made to the same weight. If they were out of stock in 1 or 2 of these shafts, they could not finish the sets.Ī characteristic of the Dynamic taper tip shaft is that eachĭifferent raw length, used to make each different numbered iron Thus if a golf company was building R and S flex woods and irons in a 1,2,3,4 wood and 2-PW irons, they had to buy and stock 26 different shafts to build the sets. What's more, each different length raw shaft also had to be bought in a single flex. However, by the 1960s epoxies had been introduced to the world with holding strengths that were far greater than had previously been seen in the adhesive industry.Īll through the middle 1950s, every taper tip shaft produced required the golf companies to buy a different raw length for each head number. Shafts evolved as taper tip in nature for one reason only - to add a form of mechanical lock to the poor quality glues of the late 1800s and all through the early to middle 1900s. Players was the DYNAMIC TAPER TIP SHAFT from True Temper. Gained favor with club makers, and since 1990s has been theįor years and years, the steel iron shaft most used by tour
When the parallel tip came on the market. The taper tip was the only choice until the 1970s, Tapering below the last step, while the taper tips, continues Taper from the butt to the tip, but parallel tips stop Shaft is the tip diameter and shaft weight.
The difference between a parallel tip shaft and a taper tip
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