golf irons

[chichi]

Does anyone have info on how old time golf irons were forged?
Thanks,
Bob

[Francis Trez Cole]

what I have seen they were cast

[Sam Thompson]

Try this:

http://www.iseekgolf.com/clubfittingandrepairs/5808-the-making-of-a-forged-club

[Francis Trez Cole]

wow that's an investment in dies

[chichi]

The modern method is interesting but I am interested in how the clubs were made when wooden shafts were used and the club maker ,I assume, was a skilled blacksmith.
Bob

[Bill in Oregon]

Bob: I'm interested too. Any Scottish smiths here?

[pkrankow]

Why not start with a socketed tool design, like the spear points that are popular right now?
Phil

[chichi]

Why not start with a socketed tool design, like the spear points that are popular right now?
Phil

I suppose I could take a piece of 3/16 by 1 1/2 and swage a neck and spread the end into a socket and weld the socket closed. After that, angle the socket to form the hosel. . In the early sixties, I caddied and our old pro was from Scotland and he said in his day, in order to be a pro, you had to be able to make clubs. I am not sure if that meant putting shafts on heads or smithing the entire head and shafting the club. I remember he said he still had the tools he used to make clubs.
I would like to learn the method as practiced by club makers.
Bob

[Bill in Oregon]

Bob: My first clubs in the early 1960s were old hickory-shafted and leather-handled forged irons, a 5, a 9 and a putter in a canvas bag. I wonder what wood the Scots and Brits used for their shafts.

[pkrankow]

http://www.golfforallages.com/
pictures
Phil