There are a few versions of the TENSEI Orange driver shaft. Unlike the recent AV2 versions of the TENSEI Blue and TENSEI White, the Orange did not have the AV2 Butt label or the AV logo on the shafts.
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The Airburst Burgundy is the second shaft made by Olympic for Oban. Olympic is a premium Japanese fishing rod company. They specialize is fishing rods which are much like golf shafts, hollow carbon fiber tubes. The Olympic website has an in-depth discussion of carbon fiber properties of tubes. If you have never seen the manufacturing of a graphite golf shaft I recommend you watch this video about fishing rod construction. From 0:56 to 5:30 you are watching the process of the making of a graphite golf shaft. Graphite shafts are with few exceptions hand rolled. No one in the golf shaft business will publish a video about the manufacturing process they use. This is how it is done:
Ralph Reichert, owner of Oban Golf shafts discusses the making and technology of the Airburst golf shafts in this video from my my YouTube Channel, Devoted Golfer, We shot this discussion at the January 2019 PGA show.
Lets take a look at the second Airburst golf shaft from Oban.
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The Graphite Design Tour AD HD released in September of 2020. It utilizes Torayca M40X prepreg in the mid to tip section and ultra-high Torayca T1100G in the tip section of the shaft. Like many Graphite Design designs, the changes from model to model are subtle.
This video is a round table discussion about Graphite Design golf shafts covering many of the recent designs.
Lets take a close look at the Tour AD HD.
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The Project X IO was released in 2020 with the Project X LS and shares the new True Temper look of a matte brushed chrome finish. It is in the same weight range as the discontinued Project X PXi but has a different EI profile. It is lighter and has a low tip to butt stiffness ratio to promote a higher launch.
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The True Temper Project X LS released in 2020 has the look of the original Royal Precision Project X, it is stepless and it has a brushed finish. This is the first steel shaft I can recall from TrueTemper with a brushed finish. Unlike chrome, a brushed finish is matte, dispersing reflections. it is a great looking shaft made to very high quality and consistency standards. Lets take a close look at it and compare the LS version to the Project X.
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The LAGolf Partners Tour AXS family of golf shafts includes matching iron shafts that have similar profiles to the driver shafts. They are all .370 tip parallel shafts. Lets take a look at the LAGolf Tour ASX iron shaft data.
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By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Builder
