so jealous ... i want to play with hickories ...

Were the ball weights similar? Your experiment mirrors my experience with old balls, not as old as those you experimented with but 40 or 50 years old. I find that the shorter shot distances are not too different to modern balls but when longer shots are attempted the modern ball far exceeds the older ball distances. Which I guess proves that modern balls are developed for spin around the greens and maximum distance on the long shots.

Very interesting, thanks

That was fun!

Interesting content. Thank you

I have a few old clubs and a putter and I think a wooden shaft, you are welcome too them if you want them.

Amazing video so much great information

Excellent!

Glad you found it. Thanks for the great content

What modern balls would you recommend for hickory golf?

I'm expecting plenty of good pars next week Gav, decent play with that old ball I'd say!

Well played! You were getting some good yardage with the mesh ball, I assume it was a wound ball? I find old balls are generally about 85 to 90% the distance of modern, but I've never gone more than 50 years old.

Can I have your autograph please master golfer

Here's what I learned using a 100 year old ball... 1) The first ball I hit had clearly lost a massive amount of compression... it was struck quite well but travelled less than 100 yards. 2) Expect considerable paint loss from the ball's surface. 3) The antique ball feels way more softer than any modern ball when hit...and sounds quite different from a modern ball. 4) It's easy to hit putts either too hard or too soft. 5) Normally my chip and run shots are reasonably good... but not with this antique ball! 6) My best drive was about 185 yards... using a modern ball for comparison on the same hole it went only about 8 yards further. 7) The antique ball flew quite straight .. it didn't duck and weave in the air.

Looks like a good time!

Great stuff

I have a random Collection of old clubs my grandmother bought at a yard sale 50 years ago. There’s a hendry viper with the name Carl Anderson below the hendry n bishop name. Another is WH Potts special with lead in back of club head. And one has nothing on face, and barely visible symbol with faint writing in the middle on back of club head. So this fairly boring looking club could be the oldest one it seems. Is there any method to raise the engraving without destroying it??

Where does one find a big slab of GP like that?

Hi Gavin just watched your film of Highwoods GC having a Hickory golf day. I play there every year it’s a course where we (Sussex Golf Captains) have a yearly mixed 4 somes event. I recognise Andy Lamb in the filming plays off 2 or 3 I think. Wish I’d known in advance might have popped down. Hope your wife enjoyed the mighty Owls comeback at the end of the season. Best wishes Ian Wood.

Gavin, Excellent video. Well done.

Is that persimmon? Well done. how is it for birdies? 🤠

Thank you Gavin for the Hickory Golf Equipment overview

I'm intrigued. As a high handicapper who hates my heavy steel shafts I'm going to take some time to pickup hickory golf. Seems like a speed that fits my taste

Hello, I just purchased 9 wood shafted golf clubs for 7.50 cents. All different MacGregor, Jim Norton special it says. Made in Scotland hand print, flower print. Have any idea what era they would be from. All in good condition..

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Beautiful video!

Enjoyed the vid Gavin ….bags galore mate. Ian

Hi, love your videos. Do you have any guidance or videos that illustrate removing a pryatone shaft and then converting to a hickory shaft. I understand that the hosel will be smaller in the original pryatone club and I will need to take material off the hickory shaft to make it fit. These will be display only so as long as I can make them look good I'm not trying to make them strong enough to play with. Thanks in advance, Bob

Once you have installed the shaft to the club do you linseed oil it or varnish in another word what’s the best way to keep it treated?

Very nice set !!

Hi Gavin, I visited your website in hopes you had a link for pricing on a set. I am currently looking for a set to play with in the eastern United States

Hi Gavin, great to see you super video matey, hope you got my letter reply to your card. Up the owls keep up the good work. Ian

I have several hundred board feet of hickory, just the other day i was thinking about making a set hickory clubs & start with a putter

Can a long nose club be weighted another way other than pouring molten medal in the back

What did they use to attach the heads to the shafts when golf 1st started???

That's really amazing, thank you for the video! My only question is where could one find GP? Is it something you can just look up online and purchase or would it be better to go to a certain type of store and look for it?

A possible cause of the equator depression. Re the "split" around the seam on the second heating, I've never seen raw gutta percha but at the start of the video it appeared to have a slightly fibrous element to it. Many polymers are fromed from strings, if gutta percha is the same, then when it was compressed in the mould the surface layer would have been squeezed out to form the fin and some of the fibre strands forced out too. Then cutting the fin off would cut the fibres and create a weak point so that when reheated the ball would expand slightly and the cut would separate.

Would it be fair to say a professional ball maker (no disrespect intended) would be able to estimate the weight of the GP needed, rather than using 3 seperate pieces, which seems to me to have an inherent weakness. But that then raises the question - did the ball makers ever use all those trimmings to make balls ?

Enjoy watching your channel.

Men's R/H Forgan" Crown - St. Andrews" spoon. Original shaft with stampings. Condition fair-good. Collectable or not? Mr. Blair " Max " Phillips - Canada - Persimmon wood 4R's person

I always take care of my shaft.!

2nd up Bobby aka Radar aka Wayne Riley. Once saw him hit 29 on the front nine of the Royal Melbourne composite course.

Hi Gavin, thanks for the video! Very useful. Two questions: I have some bended hickory shafts. Does it help to straithen them out with in a wooden mold with a heat-gun? Or does it come back in a bended form? Can you give me a link for the leather golf bag? I have only a couple of old canvas(/leather) bags which are too brittle to walk the course.

Thanks 🙏 so much! About to regrip my first set. Played with the original grips today, first time these clubs… need to do it! ( Totally hooked om Hickory golf now)

Good run through

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I really liked seeing Ricky on the range with rhe hickory. That was cool.

Actually stopped playing with my modern clubs and play nothing but hickories now. Have one of Gavin's clubs in my bag. If you have a chance to try them, it is an experience you won't forget.

Get a feeling for just how good those old boys were to get the scores they did when you go playing hickories.

I play hickory. Most people when they try them for the first time are amazed how good they feel.