Toney Penna Find

[pymmdcp]

Man. Toney Penna makes me want to play left handed. So, I can't play with them. But I can stare at them until the sell on the bay. These are gorgeous clubs. I know they are good but don't know too much about them. Anyone play them?

[birly-shirly]

Wow. Anyone else feeling lefty-curious?

[dbuck47]

Those are so cool looking; does make me wish I was lefty.

[oldschoolrocker]

I tried my left handed experiment years ago. It was a wash out.

[pymmdcp]

It was probably better than my ongoing right handed experiment.

[HoganApexBlades]

Oh my, those are beautiful looking forged blades! Now, if I forget about all my years of swinging a golf club RIGHT handed and concentrate on all those years that I played ice hockey and shot LEFT handed, I might be able to make contact once out of every 10 swings!

[Forged4ever]

Maybe Mr. Penna's nephew will drop in and give you the run-down on them-

Beautiful irons!!

The best with your quest

Have great season My Friend,
Richard

[BIG STU]

Nice set. I was always a Penna wood man I still am. I only had one set of Penna Irons and they were the Pin Jammer blades In retrospect I did not give them a fair try I was so into my 66 Power Bilt Citation irons that I hit for 10 years I did not even play them I had horse traded for them and sold them for a little profit

[xgolfx]

[quote name='Forged4ever' timestamp='1404313082' post='9623051']
Maybe Mr. Penna's nephew will drop in and give you the run-down on them-

Beautiful irons!!

The best with your quest

Have great season My Friend,
Richard
[/quote]

I am not familiar with this blade. My guess would be that it was after the time when Toney was in the company or a foreign copy of some sort. The markings are not what I am accustomed to seeing on his clubs

CHARLEY PENNA

[MoaningM]

Absolutely beautifull set of irons, never seen a set like those before.

[pymmdcp]

Thanks all. They really are gorgeous. Almost think they were custom made for someone. But who knows.

[Forged4ever]

[quote name='BIG STU' timestamp='1404330032' post='9625135']
Nice set. I was always a Penna wood man I still am. I only had one set of Penna Irons and they were the Pin Jammer blades In retrospect I did not give them a fair try I was so into my 66 Power Bilt Citation irons that I hit for 10 years I did not even play them I had horse traded for them and sold them for a little profit
[/quote]Did'nt those have "Original" in script on the face back?

A guy played those back in the day when I was playin the Staff 17's.

They were gorgeous and I actually was gonna get a set then this guy at the club that I coukd, t stand, in fact I still can't, and he shows up with em amd is strutting around like a frickin peacock with them, so I bagged it.

I'd love to get my hands on a set today.

Have a good week Bro

My Best
Richard

[BIG STU]

RP I think you are right on that I will check when I get back home. I think I saw a loose 8 iron like that when I was digging out that Aussie Blade wedge for Resnor. I knew about where the wedge was but did not know what was in the bag with it. I did find 2 Snake Eyes forged wedges I forgot I had. It is funny threads on here bring back memories of days gone buy and then the light bulb goes off "pow I think I have one of those in a barrell or bag"

[xgolfx]

[quote name='BIG STU' timestamp='1404384642' post='9628783']
RP I think you are right on that I will check when I get back home. I think I saw a loose 8 iron like that when I was digging out that Aussie Blade wedge for Resnor. I knew about where the wedge was but did not know what was in the bag with it. I did find 2 Snake Eyes forged wedges I forgot I had. It is funny threads on here bring back memories of days gone buy and then the light bulb goes off "pow I think I have one of those in a barrell or bag"
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Original model did not have the groove or line on the top and bottom of the back of the club. Also, the Toney Penna stamp was usually on the bottom of the club

CHARLEY PENNA

[rileyj]

A couple nice Penna sets for righties on the bay, under $100:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tony-Penna-TP1X-FORGED-blades-3-4-5-6-7-8-PW-Irons-brand-new-very-rare-/121373990677?pt=Golf_Clubs&hash=item1c42741f15

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Toney-Penna-Original-Irons-2-Thru-9-Nice-/400727793133?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d4d3cdded

[okesa]

Sold in the UK by Paul Gibson Classic Clubs of Menston near Leeds in the late 80's/early 90's,he was known for his quality persimmon woods and also imported sets of pre-owned'classic' irons into the UK from the US.
About that time I bought a second set of FG-17's from him and received his catalogue with them that listed Toney Penna irons which were sourced from a forging house in the Far East,I can only speculate that he had bought the Toney Penna trademark at a time when there was little interest in it.
I bought a brand new set off him which played ok but I sold on to a pal then found another set recently on ebay UK which appeared in a post of mine on this site and coincidentally took them to the range the other day to give them an airing which proved to be a disappointment,I've been playing Apex II's and the Mac wingback CF4000 recently and the faux-Penna's didn't match them.