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Bay 7 · Dabney Road, Richmond Every build leaves with a signed work order (804) 555-0173
Shaft Works Golf Shaft Bench & Club Assembly Opened 2011
Fitting Work / Hybrid

Hybrid Work

The hybrid decides whether the long end of your bag is actually worth carrying. Get the cut plan wrong and it's a club that duplicates either your 4-iron or your 5-wood instead of filling the gap between them.

A Bridge, Not a Compromise

The Cut Plan Reads Both Sides of the Bag

Before writing a hybrid cut plan, we check the work orders on file for your irons and fairway woods, if you've built with us before, or measure whatever's currently in those slots if you haven't. The hybrid's blank weight and tip trim are set to bridge that specific gap, not to a generic hybrid spec.

A hybrid that's cut like a mini fairway wood tends to sit too far behind the irons in carry. One cut like an oversized long iron tends to duplicate a club you already own. The plan aims for somewhere neither.

Hybrid Work Order

Gap it's built to fillyds
Blank raw lengthin
Tip trim takenin
Butt CPM, measured
What Actually Changes

The Variables on a Hybrid Cut Plan

Gap Measurement First

Your longest iron and shortest fairway wood are checked before anything else. The gap between them is what the hybrid cut plan is actually solving for.

Blank Weight

Set closer to your iron blanks or your wood blanks depending on which side of the gap needs more help, rather than defaulted to a generic hybrid weight.

Head Style

Iron-style heads suit players who want to work the ball like a long iron; wood-style heads offer more forgiveness and a higher launch by design.

Lie Angle

Set relative to your irons if the hybrid replaces a long iron directly, so the transition club to club feels continuous rather than abrupt.

Length

Usually shorter than the fairway wood it sits next to, trading a small amount of distance for the control the gap club is meant to provide.

Tip Trim

Adjusted independent of any wood or iron chart — hybrid blanks have their own trim progression that governs how the club actually loads.

Common Misses

What Hybrid Work Usually Fixes

A Hybrid That Duplicates Another Club

If the carry number overlaps a club you already carry, the gap wasn't measured before the cut plan was written. Re-checking against your actual set closes the gap for real.

Inconsistent Launch off Turf and Tee

Often a mismatch between head style and blank weight for how you actually use the club. Worth re-checking before assuming it's technique.

Open Bench Slots

Bring the clubs. We will start the paperwork.

Tell us what is in the bag now and what you wish it did differently. We block the bench, pull blanks from the rack, and you leave knowing exactly what was cut and why.

Request a Bench Slot Call (804) 555-0173

Bay 7 sits behind the loading apron. Park on the gravel and use the yellow door.