Hickory Golf Shafts
The Hickory Golfer is manufacturing high quality, strong and yet elastic hickory golf shafts as replacement shafts for hickory era iron and wood heads. The shafts are cut on a CNC lathe from hand selected premium hickory planks. Each shaft is individually weighted and hand inspected for straightness of grain and appropriateness for play. Handles of the shaft are the right width so installers can add one layer of friction tape and a user desired leather grip to create a standard grip for use by most golfer. The shaft has a smooth finished sanding that after minor fitting sanding is ready for stain and a protective coating.
Iron Shafts
The overall shape of our iron shafts was taken from a composite of several Tom Stewart shafts from the 1920s. The tip of the shaft will fit snuggly into most Stewart irons as well as other iron head manufactures from the hickory era and will allow a maximum shaft length of between 40 and 41 inches depending on the height of the hosel. The installer is expected to perform a small amount of sanding on the cone and the hosel to achieve a perfect fit. Iron hickory shafts are $19.50 a shaft
We have recently been able to offer shafts in a variety of stiffness grades in accordance with the 1929 US Department of Commerce Hickory Golf Shafts Commercial Standard CS18-29. Shafts are graded according to the following table:
| Grade | Minium Load in lbs |
|---|---|
| Goose(G) | 40 and over |
| Owl(O) | 34 to 39 inclusive |
| Lark(L) | 28 to 33 inclusive |
| Falcon(F) | Below 28 |
Wood Shafts
The overall shape of our wood shafts comes from a composite of several manufactures shafts including Jack White and Thomas E Wilson. Unlike the iron shaft the wood shaft is a straight with a standard tip that can be sanded to fit into most manufactures from the hickory era. The installer is expected to perform some amount of sanding on the tip to achieve a perfect fit. The maximium length of a raw wood shaft is 44.5 inches in length. Wood hickory shafts are $22.50 a shaft.
Hand Selected Weight
The weight
of a hickory shaft is the best criterion of its strength. That said, an installer might want a shaft at a particular weight to enable a matching though Swing Weighting or MOI matching. As an option on each shaft we provide a service to hand select a shaft to within 2 grams plus or minus of the customers desired shaft weight. Shaft weights are measured at the full length of the shaft. Hand selection is $5.00 per shaft.
Custom shafts – While the stock shaft that we have provided will fit most of the clubs we realize that some players may want a custom shaft build. With our CNC lathe this is possible for a one time setup fee. Once the custom shaft has been saved we can reproduce the shaft time and time again at our standard shaft rate.
Shipping – All orders are shipped USPS priority mail within 24 hours of receipt of payment. Shipping price is based upon weight.
Your Iron shafts are sold out when will you have more?
hopefully
cheers
Eric
Actually the comment was attributed to you but to someone named R Dietz (I can supply you the email address if you like).
It’s a legitimate question and I thought I had answered it but apparently I did answered directly and not through the web site. If had answered it it would have been two fold (technical and rules)
1) It’s unlikely a hickory shaft would be strong enough to support the smaller OD size.
2) A variety of hickory organizations, including the Society of Hickory Golfers, would not allow those clubs to be played in competition.
Binky
I am in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. I wanted to buy some of your hickory shafts for irons, but when I add to the cart and then specify Canada as the shipping country, it displays $0 for shipping and handling, and offers me the option to manually change that. Is there a way that I can buy shafts for shipping to Canada and pay for the shafts plus shipping?
Thanks,
KenL
Could you make a putter shaft (maple wood), 36″ long, 3/4″ butt end down to 1/4″ tip end? Basically similar to a pool cue, but smaller. I would like 25 to start. Thanks for your time.
Not a problem Mike…When would you need them? Also what kind of Maple are you looking for?
Roger
!) Did you get my check cashed?
2) Would a US $ money order have been better?
3) i would lie to order some wood and iron shafts. What is your inventory like? Can you handle ten of each?
Paul Dietz
Brinkley–
Forty years ago my uncle, who taught me to play, gave me a hickory shaft iron women’s nibley (5 iron), which I’ve been using for years as a chipper.
The shaft recently shattered, and I want to replace it. I only use it around thhe greens, so length is not important, nor is a grip.
Would one of your standard hickory shafts work, and if I order one would any golf shop be able to fit the shaft to the iron?
Yes the standard iron shaft would work, but not any old golf shop would be be able to fit the shaft to the iron. Well an old one might, but those aren’t very common. Looks like your in Utah. If you wold like to send it to me I’ll put in a new shaft if you would like at a reasonable charge. I can also regrip if you like. Unfortunately I’m headed on vacation tomorrow and I’ll be back near the end of the month. But let me know and we can take this offline.
Brinkley–
I am interested. I can send you the clubhead. It’s actually a Ladies Super Stroke Mashie made by Wilson (I don’t know the year.)
I don’t need a grip; I’m been using the club as a chipper without a grip for years.
If you want to let me know by e-mail specifics the billing and how to get the club to you, that would be great. This can wait until you get back from vacation.
Chris
I need some shafts for putters I’m working on. When I CHECKOUT …it says you are sold out. When might you have more?
I should have some by this weekend. We’re currently in production now. I’ll check downstairs and make sure the the stock and web page are in synch.
Any international shipping has to be done outside of the ordering system. Send me an email with how many items you’re interested in ordering and I’ll give you the shipping costs.
It seems like we never have enough shafts on hands anymore. If at any time we are out of shafts just send me an email with the number of and types of shafts you’re interested in. I’ll reply with a confirmation email
Hi my name is Stefan, I live in sweden and I play hickorygolf. Now I need to buy some new hickoryshafts for a couple of broken irons. Could you tell me total price for 3 shafts including shippingcost to Sweden and if I can pay thru pay pal ?
Best Regards
Stefan
I have a client that wants a ‘whippy’ wooden shaft for a putter – about 34″ long overall. Any recommendation of how I should describe it to order? My hunch is to start with a hickory of about a 120 / 130 gram weight (thinner diameter). Thanks.
Please tell me two things:
1. Are your ‘new’ shafts allowd for hickory tournaments?
2. Do’s it change the price of the singel shaft when I do order 10 or 20?
I have used 2 of your shafts. after making them thinner they where perfect.
Yes replacement shafts are allowed in hickory tournaments.
No it doesn’t change the price if you order 10-20…shipping costs per shaft might be reduced but otherwise no change in price.
Probably the best thing to do is to sand down the shaft. Also note that weight for us is an indicator of density of wood and hence stiffness. That said you could have a very dense shaft that was sanded down to be quite whippy. The advantage would be it would stronger than a less dense shaft.
Stefan,
It’s pretty expensive to ship just 3 shafts. 3 shafts plus the box would weight about 2 lbs and wold cost 38.95 to ship. Contrast that with a 10lbs (about 20 shafts) at $61. The table below will give a better idea but it’s best to order several shafts at once. I do have a couple of people in Sweden that can supply you with the small amount of shafts.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for your answers.
I willcheck out how many shafts I will take on stock.
Kind regards from Switzerland
Joe
tried to place order for shafts and grips , reply was both out of stock . can you please advise when i can place my order . thanks Dave
I thought I left a reply but it either disappeared or I only thought I left it. Are you out of stock of iron shafts? The ordering page indicates so at least…. Any idea when you may have more? I have a mid iron I need to reshaft and would like to try it myself.
Thanks for your help.
Adam
Dave,
We can’t seem to make the shafts fast enough. Per another email I’ve got you on a waiting list for the next batch that we’re currently working on. Hope to have those shipped my mid-September.
Binky
You did but I just didn’t approve the message yet. We should have more around mid-September. We’re in production right now and have about 40 done. My recommendation is that you place a preorder via email. When I get the next batch from my brother I’ll notify everyone on the list and send them out according to what I have in stock. Just let me know what you want.
Binky
Binky;
Can you hold for me 3 driver/spoon shafts from you next production batch?
Thanks,
Jeff
I recently received 4 Iron Shafts from you and am very pleased with them, for the price. As received they were very stiff (think: stiff as a board, a 2×4 board!) and required some stock removal since I was building some Regular Flex clubs.
I saw a comment earlier about sanding the lower part of the shaft to increase flex: I would amend that to say a better way of increasing flex is to scrape the shaft (sanding can take forever). Scrape the entire shaft from near the top all the way to the bottom. I start about mid-grip (6″ or so from the top), and it helps to draw a pencil line around the shaft every 6″ or so to insure I’m scraping all around the shaft and keeping it round. I may do a bit more scraping near the bottom of the shaft, but only doing the bottom keeps too much stiffness at the top it seems to me…. at least if going for a Regular flex. Not having a Frequency Monitor, which would be the very best way to measure flex, I approximate flex with a “poor-man’s flex-o-meter” comprised of a bench vise, yardstick, and a weight, in my case a basket of golf balls.
I take a club with the flex I want, clamp the butt in the vise, and add weight until the shaft bends 2″ on the yardstick. Once I have the correct weight in golf balls to bend the shaft 2″, I keep scraping the new shaft until the same weight bends it the same 2″. Light sanding to smooth it up, and it’s ready to stain and finish. I use an alcohol based stain so I can follow up immediately with alcohol-based shellac for a finish, but any finish will work. Just be sure you put the weight in the same place each time, and measure in the same place to end up with the flex you want.
For non-woodworkers out there, any kind of furniture scraper will probably work if properly sharpened and burnished. I’ve got several, but have had the best results with a cheap RedDevil 1″ scraper that I just keep sharpened (no burnished hook at all). If sharp it will pull a paper-thin 1/16″ wide curl shaving from the top of the shaft to the bottom, or as far as I can comfortably pull it.
Regards,
Rich
Howdy
I have seven T. Stewart heads that need shafts and grips. I would like the shafts to be close to the same frequency. Can you sort by frequency
/ What does sorting by weight accomplish?
I think the swing weight would differ by the length and gram weight of the head I put on the shaft.
My T. Stewart club information;
2 iron 225 gms head weight finished club length average 38.3″
4 iron 235 gms finished club length average 37.25″
mashie iron 255 gms finished club length average 38.1″
jigger 235 gms finished club length average 37.6″
mashie niblick 275 gms finished club length average 36″
spade mashie 270 gms finished club length average 36.536.5″
mashie (5) 250 gms finished club length average 36.7
Shaft length averages are from Ralph’s book.
Thanks in advance
Charlie
My blog is http://ballynealcaddy.blogspot.com/
We don’t sort by frequency, but with wood shafts if we match very closely by weight you’ll get a very similar shaft. Weight is more a determinate of the stiffness of the shaft. Given that our shafts are within a given tolerance level the stiffness level is determined by the density of the wood, making weight the important factor. The stiffer the shaft the higher the weight.
As far as matching clubs goes, I use an MOI matching system. MOI matching scientifically makes each club require the same amount of effort to swing. This is what makes MOI matched clubs offer better shotmaking consistency than swingweight matched clubs. Swingweight matching does not make each club the same in terms of the amount of force required by the golfer to swing each club and hit the shot. My experience is that it makes a set of clubs more consistent from club to club. I’ve found I can add weight (tungsten) in hosel and be fairly successful. You could do something similar with swingweighting.
As a side note, years ago I use to have a set of Pelz wedges. Most consistent set of wedges I’ve ever owned. Oddly enough all MOI matched at 2800 MOI.
Can the shafts be trimmed for vintage iron heads that had steel shafts originally?
Do you have a contact # where you can be reached by telephone? Thanks.
Can they? Yes. Should they? No, for two reasons. One, the strength of the shaft would be in question. There is only one wood that I know of that can handle the smaller inside diameter of an iron shaft and that’s danga wood. There were a few sets made with this African wood, but as much as I’ve tried I haven’t been able to find suppliers that carry it. Two, that would go against the philosophy of hickory play. Unless the club was made for hickory shafts it shouldn’t be played with a hickory shaft slammed down in it. One exception to that rule is allowed. If a wood club was both made for hickory and iron shafts it’s permissible under the Society of Hickory Golfers rules to reshaft with a hickory shaft.
Yes, but I’ll send it in private email.
Sure I’ll send it in a private email…Keeping the spam down.
I mentioned in my earliar email I would have a club fitter look at the shafts. He said ” all shafts have a usuable grain pattern “. “The main problem with ALL of the shafts is the way the tips tapper you may have trouble getting them to fit the hosel snug before glueing.”
I followed this up. The rest of the information:
I wanted specific information on the clearances of the shafts and the heads so I took them to a local machine shop.
He used a Digital Vernier to measure the inside (ID) and outside diameter (OD) of the head (way overkill 3 decimal points) He also measured the OD of the 7 shafts where the mazimum ID of the head hosel would fit up. The new shaft OD measurements ranged from .571 to .585 inches. The ID of my heads ranged from .582 to .600 inches.
The OD of the heads were .595 to .620 inches (pretty good for a hand forged heads 3 of which were .615, and two were .620)
I also brought the shaft I had removed from my T.Stewart jigger, it’s head ID was .582 and it’s original shaft was .588 inches. The jigger shaft fit tightly to the head, I needed to replace it because of warpage.
For a snug fit it is better to have a shaft larger than the ID of your head so some trimming and adjustment can be made. If it doesn’t fit snuggly before glueing it may have a tendancy to break at the hozzle.
CONCLUSION; For T.Stewart clubs increase the OD of the shaft to about .600 inches. I think that would cover most of the heads.
Thanks
Charlie
I conclude from the measurements of my jigger head and shaft that a .01 inch OD excess in the shaft would enable some trimming to acheive a tight fit. If some nicking of the head had been done in the past the ID measured would measure SMALLER than the shaft needed.
Roger
I am looking for a shaft to fit an 1880 era cleek – i can send the exact id and od later. I didnt bring my calipers to the office , but did pull the shaft today
i believe the od is in the .73-.75 range – larger than the typical shaft
i can post more later or you can send a email to me to discuss
thanks
gary
Gary,
I might have some oversized shafts in stock. These are shafts we made by mistake but will probably fit what you need. We recently did a custom order for Chris McIntyre that’s similar to the specs you want as well. I’d have to look up the specs once you have your specs. We do custom orders upon request. Our standard OD is .740 so it is possible that if you have the exact measurements we could use a stock shaft. Let me know the measurements and we’ll work it out.
Roger
hosel: the ID is .64 and the OD is .725 – so
the removed shaft – .638
Hi, I am restoring a bullseye putter and would like to use a wooden shaft. When will you have more available? I tried adding a wood and iron shaft to my cart to purchase, but get a popup they are sold out. Which should I choose for a putter, or do you make a putter specific shaft?
Thanks,
Ed
Binky,
Hello, I would like to purchase 1 Hickory shaft with a female end. The putter head I want to use on the shaft is old and has a male tapered end on it. If I sent you the dimensions is there any chance you could make a putter shaft with the end bored out to accept it?
Thank You,
Ed
Need 3 iron shafts….but it says you’re sold out. When will you have more? Thanks for your help/response. -Scott
I tried to order 7 iron shafts and was informed that they are out of stock. When will they be in stock?
Thanks
Is it possible to get a shaft for a putter with a .370 diameter?
I live in Australia, and will be at the US Open Hickory at Seaview Galloway New Jersey 15-17 July. I would like to buy 3 regular flex hickory iron shafts, and have them delivered to Seaview. Could you please advise availability, and the best way to order.
Cheers
Rob Downie
Would like to order iron shafts.
When will you have more of “owl” in stock?
Can I get your email address to send some questions?
Thanks
I would like to order some hickory shafts but I am not sure which shaft to order. I like regular flex so would that be the Owl?
Hello,
I am looking to purchase 100 hickory shafts. Is there bulk pricing for 100 shafts? Thanks
I have a friend that does not own a computer in need of a few wooden golf shafts. Do you have a phone number he can reach you on?
I’ll provide a phone number through direct email.
binky
For 100 shafts we would do bulk pricing of 18.50 but at that price no hand selection of shafts. If you want that you have to pay the full price.
Binky