Terms You'll See on Your Work Order
Five words that show up on every cut plan we write, explained without a flex letter in sight.
Blank
The uncut shaft as it comes off the rack — longer than any finished club needs, with no trim taken from either end yet. Every job starts by pulling one and weighing it.
Cut Plan
The sheet written before the saw runs: raw length, tip trim intended, target butt frequency, and finished playing length. It becomes the first line of the work order.
Tip Trim
Material removed from the head end of the blank. It stiffens the club far more than the same amount taken off the other end, because the tip section is the thinnest, most active part of the shaft to begin with.
Butt Trim
Material removed from the grip end. It shortens the club and stiffens it slightly, in a much smaller proportion than tip trim — the two are not interchangeable on a cut plan.
Butt CPM
The measured frequency of the assembled club, in cycles per minute, read after cure. It's the number we check the finished build against — not the flex letter printed on the blank.
Work Order
The final signed sheet: every measurement above, side by side with what was planned, initialed by whoever built the club. You keep it; we keep a copy on file.
The Flex Letter Isn't on the Cut Plan
"Regular," "Stiff," and "Extra Stiff" aren't standardized across manufacturers, and two blanks stamped the same letter can measure noticeably differently once they're cut to length and installed. A cut plan is built around numbers we can read on the bench — raw length, tip trim, and target CPM — not a label printed at the factory.
That's also why a cut plan from another shop rarely transfers cleanly here. Without the raw length and tip trim they actually used, the flex letter alone doesn't tell us enough to reproduce the build. We'll measure your existing club from scratch before writing anything new.
Sample Set Progression