What makes an iron a blade?

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What exactly makes a blade a blade? Can a blade have any amount of a cavity back to it?
To me, a blade is an iron with a smaller head and a thin sole and topline. To me, a blade can still have a slight cavity to it.
To me at least, it seems like a lot of people confuse the term blade and muscleback.
Discuss...
 
A blade is a muscleback iron. Any small cavity and it's not a blade.

Blade=knife. Knives don't have cavities.
 
A blade is a muscleback iron. Any small cavity and it's not a blade.

This!

A muscleback iron is a blade. It is a description of a club just like a hybrid, or wedge.
Once any type of perimeter weighting creates a cavity, no matter how small, it is no longer considered a blade or muscleback.
 
A blade is a muscleback iron. Any small cavity and it's not a blade.

Blade=knife. Knives don't have cavities.
That is what I thought too. I have always considered a muscleback a blade.
 
This!

A muscleback iron is a blade. It is a description of a club just like a hybrid, or wedge.
Once any type of perimeter weighting creates a cavity, no matter how small, it is no longer considered a blade or muscleback.

So is a S3 Pro MB not a blade? It has the small cavity's?
 
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Hmmm, interesting. Good to know.
 
It can cut you, thats what makes it a blade hehe
 
Right, but as far as the MB club, it has the small cavity's, so is it a MB?
 
I think people use the term "Blade" with to describe an iron that is difficult to hit, and thats where the confusion for yourself lies.

Blade is just a design term. Like Coupe or Sedan or Convertible for cars.
 
Right, but as far as the MB club, it has the small cavity's, so is it a MB?

They are not really cavities IMO. Cavities to me, and probably many others, involves perimeter weighting. Perimeter around the entire clubface. Not just toe/heel hits.
 
Blade= no perimeter weighting.
 
Thanks thainer
 
A muscleback iron is a blade. It is a description of a club just like a hybrid, or wedge.
Once any type of perimeter weighting creates a cavity, no matter how small, it is no longer considered a blade or muscleback.

I agree and was thinking the same thing. A blade is a iron you will never see in my bag! Been there, done that.
 
This!

A muscleback iron is a blade. It is a description of a club just like a hybrid, or wedge.
Once any type of perimeter weighting creates a cavity, no matter how small, it is no longer considered a blade or muscleback.

Exactly. Thank you.
 
i hit a taylormade rac(i think) 3 iron the other day and at address i was thinking "i might actually miss this" :rotfl: thankfully i hit it.
 
They are not really cavities IMO. Cavities to me, and probably many others, involves perimeter weighting. Perimeter around the entire clubface. Not just toe/heel hits.
What about some irons in Mizuno's MP line that have a slight bit of a cavity? Perhaps something like an MP-32, MP-52 or MP-53? Those have much of the weighting like a muscleback but still have a cavity and some perimiter weighting?
Or even my T-Zoid Pros. They have some perimiter weighting but still have the, "t-bar" in the middle of the clubface.
 
If it has perimeter weighting it is not considered a blade.
 
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