We get a lot of questions about club building and grip replacement and figured it was time for a Three Minute Thursday. Where you get the tips you are looking for in three minutes or less.
Today we decided to put on a new Golf Pride MCC Teams grip on a driver in the THP Tech Studio and of course wanted to make it match perfectly.
Do you do replace your own grips? If not, does a simple tip like this help you get the basics down and want to give it a try?
I’m a user of mineral spirits as well. Not truly odorless, but way better!
I’ve dropped many expletives in the past when I was first learning to regrip.
I’m going to have to try the heat gun suggestion from this thread next time. For me, the most time consuming and hateful part of regripping is peeling the old grip off and cleaning all the old tape off the shaft.
I had issues putting the standard Hogan Lamkins on my combo set, first set that I had so many issues with it not going on easy I tried the compressor method (lightbulb)
& the frequency and the trimming and the full blown workshop
It totally helps.
It works. Just a bit of heat and you will see the tape bubble.
Sign me up for that one too!
Make that 3 of us, please!
Without a table and speed clamp? Slow and steady. I do all mine at home over the sink and you’ve got more than enough time to move the grip around and get it aligned, it’s not a quick tack thing, so slow and steady is key. Irons and woods are actually easiest, aligning putters without a clamp setup can be a B though.
For sure. And any way I can help, just let me know!
I haven’t changed my own grips since I worked at DSG 6 years ago.
Went ahead and ordered a gripping station to set up in the garage, and some new grips! Time to get back into it!
My takeaway is that I always laugh whenever I see the GolfWorks tape dispenser, and how much effort one must exert in order to rip the tape. I wish They would improve that. Man I hate that dispenser!
I didn’t want to mess with my gamers until I knew for sure what i was doing.
I used a razor blade to cut the grips. This sucked. I get the hooked blade now.
I used a plenty of solvent & collected the run off in my roller painting tray and put into a bottle for reuse.
Discovered this is so much easier than I ever thought it was.
So I order the light blue MCC TEAM grips (UNC) to redo all of my gamers and I got a hooked blade.
1 question: If I wanted to add masking tape to build up the lower part of the grip, would this go on first
before the double sided tape? It would right?
Oh and thank you for the video and everyone’s input.
Yes, the build up tape would go on before the grip tape.
Nah, many years of working with it
Often thought about gripping station tray, but funnel works pretty well, and only regrip maybe twice a year if that. Add a little makeup solvent to cup as needed when doing a batch of clubs. Keep all gripping stuff in small pan up on shelf out of way, waiting for next time…
No smell, no tell, works great.
I agree…it’s not necessary to have a formal grip station, but I highly recommend having a vice. Can grips be installed without a vice? Sure. But even for someone who grips clubs every day it’s a challenge to get them on straight and all the same length. A vice with shaft pads makes it so much easier and the result will be better.
A heat gun is a similar item. It’s not mandatory to being able to remove old grip tape, but it certainly turns it from a tedious, time consuming chore into a piece of cake. You could almost remove old tape from a whole set of shafts using a heat gun in the same time it takes to do 1 shaft without it!
Then the last question, i don’t have a heat gun but definitely don’t want to spend too much time peeling the old tape (especially since my clubs have never been regripped and had them for 3 years). Will a portable clothes steamer work the same as a heat gun? Anyone try? (I have one of those )
Thank you
I believe that either of those solvents would work just fine. A hair dryer provides sufficient heat to help loosen tape.
Can someone show me how they do it without an expensive station? My iron grips need replacing and would love to try it.
If only there was a simple way of keeping the old grip instead of having to cut it off. Other than finding someone with an air compressor and nozzle. That way you could buy a couple of different grips and go back and forth to see which you prefer.
If not having a station is preventing you, it shouldn’t. I’ve never felt the need for one. It would be different if I did them professionally but to just do your own set, you don’t need it.
That will be perfect to get you started.
Perfect, now I just need grips!
If you’re doing your set, I always recommend buying 15 grips so that you can replace the high wear ones during the season.
Good luck; it’s really quite simple to do.