Building New Takomo Irons for Wesley Bryan 

Being a golf nerd, I really appreciate these types of videos. Great work 👏

You have the best job ever. I would love to be a club builder. To get into the knitty gritty of every detail would be so satisfying. Awesome job, love your work

Truly excellent demo of club building. Bravo!

Those irons are truly gorgeous

Nice! Great shop setup and equipment sure helps things. Pleasure to watch someone work who has mastered the trade.

I build clubs and these videos are so soothing and calming for some reason 😊 great job!

Great insight into club building and subscribed!

Love your setup and video! I have always used the shoe shine method for turning ferrules but I am still not great at it. Hot melt is interesting. Thanks again

I have never built a club but I found your videos fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

Great video. I have always enjoyed building and tinkering with golf clubs. I would love to put together a shop like yours someday. Looks clean and professional.

As usual great video. I was especially intrigued since you were building for Wesley. Let’s see how he performs now once he gets accustomed to them.

Great video again, very interesting! How about a video on all the tools in your shop and where your club making experience started.

Just ordered the 301 combo set. With stiff light shafts pretty cool seeing how they will be getting built

I used just sand paper to rough up the shims I used. Love this. I do need a swing weight scale

Great video. Every time I watch this channel I want to learn to do this stuff for myself. As a gunsmith, it should be a very short learning curve.

From the time Wesley announced his WITB, I have been trying to figure out how to get the x100’s from the takomo site in the combo set! Finally know how 😂

I build all my clubs. It’s very interesting trying different shafts and what works or doesn’t work for me.

So good !!! Thanks

LOVE my 201s!

I have seen many videos on gripping clubs, blowing grips on without any two sided tape or the std. two sided tape and solvent. Pros and cons for both. Thanks

I took delivery of a full set of 101T’s! Weather has been terrible in the UK, however, I have played for a few weeks now and they are as good as the reviews! For the price, I don’t see why you would go anywhere else!

Did a pretty solid job it seems 😂 great video

I am in the process of doing this with my 101t but with a 101 4-5 iron! I thought I was crazy lol. I also think that takomo is really missing out by not selling the utility irons in a 101t size as well, I think for better players who want that driving iron (t200, p790 udi style) they could kill it. Great video!

I love your club building videos 🤌🏾

If Wedgley Bryan is using these for long irons, who the heck do I think I am thinking I should buy 201s this year? Nice vid

Introducing the first Takomo tour truck guy

Did you put wooden dowels in Wesley's previous build? I thought I heard that somewhere, but was unaware you built them for him? Always love your content.

Is thete a recomended epoxy resin to use for goid durability and strength?

Arguably the best fitter in the Southeast

Great video, can you tell me how the centring powder works when In conjunction with the brass shim? When using the powder w/out the shim I can understand the process, but combined with twisting and using the shim, isn’t there possibility of areas of epoxy being more dense than others and nullifying the benefit of using something to help centre the shaft? Hope that makes sense…

AJ, thanks for the detailed video on building clubs. A couple of questions: 1. doesn't adding the metal insert into the hosel add weight and change the swing weight, if so, how do you compensate for that? Do you make the initial swing weight lighter? 2. How do you now how much hot melt goes into the clubhead to get the swing weight you desire? I didn't see you measure any of the hot melt. Cheers.

What is the grit number for the belt you use to turn down the ferrules? Thanks. I bought a 180 grit belt that I read is the right one, but it is too coarse. Doesn't adding the epoxy inside the head increase the swingweights?

Great presentation, am curious why you deducted 1/8" from overall shaft length? Is it made up with the grip?

Which loft/lie machine is that? I see a few it could be on golfworks website. Thanks

I tinker with doing club repair. I’m curious about the hotbox and how that works being that you usually add heat to loosen the epoxy, but it seems there you’re using heat to harden the epoxy.

Hi AJ, great video as always. I had a question about the Takomo irons. I recently got an iron fitting and was recommended Srixon ZX5 MK II. Do any of the Takomo irons compare to the Srixon? Or best bet to go with the Srixon?

Do you mesure head weights to be sure shafts will respond true to flex ? i've built Takomo irons . ,really heavy heads and shafts are playing softer ...

thanks for you videos ,can you share where you buy you parts ?I looking to get some graphite iron shafts

Will you please comment on the feasibility of using spray foam, filling the entire cavity, versus hot melt? At least theoretically it would seem to dampen the sound without adding significant weight or affecting the CG. In your other video on this topic, there were several commenters making the suggestion, and it has been discussed elsewhere in Takomo forums, but an expert opinion is needed here.

Great video! I haven’t built a club since around 1995. Do you have Takomos there to do fittings with? I’m just north of Atlanta and will be looking to get a new set of irons soon.

Thanks a lot for you time , I currently play the T 300 irons I believe the are .355 and my swing speed is around 80 I would like in the future to change the steel shafts to graphite which shafts do you recommend? After watching your videos I feel confident that I can do it my self . Again thanks a lot for answering my questions

Heja! That's a nice informative video! But i have questions... You are bending the clubs in like and loft - do you? If you change loft, you change bounce and with the theft bouncer again the loft.... Simple said, more bounce belongs less loft (bounce takes loft). Do you have grind the sole of the Club? Or what else you do? By the way : this clubs are look nice for a low budget iron! Cheers

What you think about Takomo 201 irons? Are those too difficult for 15 hcp? Like your video!

is there any benefit to finding the spine of each shaft prior to assembly?

I wish you could order combo sets or individual irons. Takomo would make a killing

Surprised to see Wesley Bryan using a 101t, wonder what made him choose the hollow body over the 201 for his longer irons

I’ve heard from many that shops Will not bend the lie on hollow bodied irons. You seem to do it with ease. Is there a risk that they break?

Are you still using the Kaufman enterprises scout III frequency analyzer

It looked like you put hotmelt in the 4 iron then put it face down, surely some of it went on the face which is a big no no according to the TM tour truck guys? How do you distribute the hotmelt inside the club to make sure it doesn't just sit in the toe and make the clubs really fade-biased? Wesley does love a 'weak fan shot out to the right'... Thanks

It interesting he plays a different grip on just his 4-5i very interesting

I am a high handicap, usually shooting around the low 90’s; best round being an 89. I am playing Taylor Made Burner super steel irons. I plan on upgrading my set later this year. I am curious if you all have any tips or suggestions as far a as fittings go? Open to hear your thoughts!

would you say the 101T is a forgiving iron. Im a +18 handicapper and was wondering whether youd suggest these?

Doesn’t TT make a parallel tip in the Dynamic Gold series?

What is the difference between 101T and 101 please, can you tell me why American golf told me if he made clubs for me he would make them 4 degrees upright. Thanks. PS enjoyed your video. Made me realise no way do I buy without Proper fitting.

I've wanted to do this also but it's frustrating that you can't get individual heads from Takomo to build a combo or a single iron like a 4.

I enjoy watching your videos they are calming for whatever reason. However you do need to pay attention to the orientation of the club head after you inject the hot melt until it firms up. Holding the club the way you did put it towards the heel and then onto the backside of the face (probably the best location) but it didn’t look like you did exactly the same for the 4 iron… Nevertheless, you are right about preparation and cleanliness being the key 👍

I may be wrong but shouldn’t you adjust the lie on them before you cut the shaft??

No need for a brass tip to increase swing weight? Or is D1 Wesley's spec?

Does anyone know how he is able to put hotmelt into the injection port as the cavity is supposed to already be filled with TPU from the factory?

It looks like you had to take a ton off of the ferrules. I feel like any more than a second or two and may get ruined. Any tips?

@EFGMC I would greatly appreciate it if you could help clear up a mystery. When did you obtain the head that you filled for this video? A 101T owner (in a Takomo Facebook) just opened up his port and it is filled with a red spongy polymer-like substance (TPU?) as far as he could insert his probe. He purchased that head in April. And yet you just put hot melt into a head a couple of weeks ago, indicating that it was empty?! I have yet to get a response from Takomo definitively stating whether that head is now foam filled when previously it was not? We would be grateful for any information you could provide to help clear this up. Thanks.

I want the Takomo 101 How can I get them? What do you need from me to costume build them? Thank you

Is it legal to put that hot melt in the club ?

I’m confused. Why wouldn’t you use a DG x100 .370 tip shaft, instead of going through the extra steps of shimming?

Enjoyed the video. I'm a bit surprised that with all the gear available to Tour players and builders you would use a shim to fit non-matching hosels and shafts. I know Tour Issue X-100 are tighter in weight, but an alternative would be to get some weight-sorted .370 parallel X-100 shafts and avoid using shims. It just seems worth it to me to avoid adding another metal part, complicating a very simple build. Thanks again, like your videos very much.

how come when checking swing weight you didn't include the ferrule and also the glue, although not much will make a difference too.

The long irons are very long. I am selling my UDI P790 2 iron because the 4 and 5 are great!!

I would like to send you one of my putters to replace the shaft

Why do you have to grind the ferrule ? Do they come oversized? Thanks

Have you seen the video Club Champion posted about how they build clubs. A lot of people have negative things to say and I'd love to see your reaction to how they built the driver

@bryanbrostv is quickly become top ten channels for me 🎉

You need to cut some chopsticks or get a long wooden rod from Lowe’s/ HD to do your epoxy with. Also, shop towels work MUCH better than paper towels.

I thought Wesley swore by Superstroke grips? 🤔

I thought Wesley was using Super-stroke grips on all his clubs be he is sponsored by them

Straight to consumer at two thirds the price ... but then you have a set of $700 irons that are not fit for you , and you're gonna spend what you would've spent on a set of titleist irons, to have them retro fit for you .

Wesley could use a bit more forgiveness. lol. Got any super forgiving drivers?

At your level, now doing clubs for PGA pros you need to use the 3M DP810epoxy.. the golfworks epoxy fails and will never keep a ferrule from creeping… your customers will thank you.. I’ve had driver heads twist with that golfworks junk.

Now westley just needs to learn how to score.

I thought he was Callaway person

Unless you did it ahead of time or are the luckiest guy in the world, there is no way those two clubs are 4-5 cpm apart. There was no frequency checking or puring of those shafts in your build. I probably have'nt been building clubs as long as you but i have been doing it for 20 years and there is such a small chance of 4-5 cpm seperation between these shafts without doing some tipping. Maybe even they could have been too firm for a 4 or 5 iron frequency for his swing speed. Doesnt look like a very precision build especially for a tour pro, unless that was done before you filmed. I know dynamic gold tour issue shafts are the best but they are not perfect. Some in fact are quite awful as far as straightness. I do know that for each mph of clubhead speed correlates to a certain frequency(cpm). Thats how i build my clubs after i fit someone. With someone like this your pro i would definitely be precise on the build. Still love the videos.

Complete copy of tiger irons

I spine every one of my shafts so they repeat