00:00So as I said when these clubs arrived with me as I got them from all over the place and
00:04some of them
00:04are nearly 40 years old they were accompanied by some absolutely rotten shafts and grips so the
00:09first job was to whip them all out and banish them to the little shaft farm in the sky. Once
00:14we'd gotten rid of those atrocities it was time to clean all the heads out from 30 plus years of
00:18gunk so that they were clean and ready to receive some 2026 magic from KBS. So to do so I
00:23generally
00:23go first in with an appropriate size drill bit but to get rid of any big bits of rubbish before
00:29going in with a wire wall drill bit for the next layer of cleaning and then finishing off with a
00:33special core sandpaper bit to re-rough the innards of the hosel so that the epoxy has something to grip
00:38to. Speaking of things to grip to I need to make sure the shafts I'm using have a bit of
00:42abrasion
00:42to the tip as trying to make two perfectly smooth surfaces adhere to one another is nigh on impossible.
00:47So here I am just removing the very outer layer of smooth paint on the shaft to help that sticking
00:51process and strengthen the bond. You can do this by using a sand belt too but I still like some
00:56of
00:56the old-fashioned ways. With the KBS high-rev steel wedge shafts going in my wedges I use my grinding
01:01wheel to create the abrasion. Then with everything roughened up it's time to mix some epoxy. I'm using
01:05the Brampton Profix Long Cure Epoxy here which takes a full 24 hours to cure and mixing in some
01:11shafting beads to make sure the shaft sits centrally in the hosel and also to add a little bit of
01:16bite to
01:16the cure. After gluing it's time to give the hosels a little wipe of any excess and then it's a
01:2124 hour
01:22weight. You can use much quicker drying epoxy. I've got some five minute stuff for example but I had
01:26this hanging around and wasn't in a particular rush so I played the long game here. Okay so everything
01:31is now set it's time for cutting and gripping. I measure out the lengths I'm after which I'll pop
01:37up on a graphic of the full specs on screen for you shortly and cut away. Once the cutting is
01:42done it's
01:43time to get some grips on these beauties and KBS kindly supplied me with their Lampkin Colab grips which
01:47feel absolutely fantastic. You'd have probably seen this before but it's just tape on. I'm a
01:52one layer guy nowadays. Get it in the vice, lubricate the grip and shaft with white spirit
01:56and slide it on. Once it's on and lined up you just need to give the shaft a little wipe
02:00to get
02:01rid of any horrible residue and it's time to tidy up the ferrules. Quick spin around the sanding belt
02:05at constant pressure to remove that little lip, a little bit of steel wool and some acetone
02:09and you are good to go. We've maybe got the coolest set of clubs I've ever put together.
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