RARE TITLEIST CUSTOM GRIND IRON'S

[seayhorse]

Here are four more pictures of the 7-irons from my #1 Grinds and my #5 Grinds. As you can see the #5 Grinds are slightly larger and have a rounder toe and the #1 Grinds are slightly smaller with a square toe. Addam, if you need more pictures just let me know !!!

[seayhorse]

Here you go Addam. This is the top line view of the 6 iron from both sets.

[seayhorse]

Addam, here are some pictures of the set that you said were 681 Prototype's.

[pegleg]

It didn't occur to me to save it as a PDF...

Here is my list of Titleist forgings. These are, as I said, only the production models, but if you have a set of custom grinds, it may help you identify the year they were made. Of course, some of the custom grinds, and certainly the tour sets, may be harder to identify, due to the unique customization of the tour dept.

I have seen the occasional "custom grind" iron that isn't identified on this list. But it's still a more complete list that the historical one on Titleist's site, and I believe more complete than the club books as well...

[attachment=210192:Titleist_irons.pdf]

[Tomba29]

[quote name='addamsmith' post='874595' date='Jan 21 2008, 08:46 AM'].355 taper tip[/quote]

Thanks Adam.

[Drexel64]

I had many sets of Titleist custom grinds when I was in college. One set I picked up in 1998 though I think they were from the mid 90's was a set of Titleist irons with "Special Edition" written on the toe in Red has anyone seen these before? Also do any of you guys remember in the late 90's when Custom grinds were going for $1400+ it was a real frenzy for collectors.
John

[seayhorse]

[quote name='Drexel64' post='876520' date='Jan 22 2008, 11:11 AM']I had many sets of Titleist custom grinds when I was in college. One set I picked up in 1998 though I think they were from the mid 90's was a set of Titleist irons with "Special Edition" written on the toe in Red has anyone seen these before? Also do any of you guys remember in the late 90's when Custom grinds were going for $1400+ it was a real frenzy for collectors.
John[/quote]

Hello John. I did once see a single 5-iron on E-Bay that was a Titleist Special Edition blade that looked just like the Custom Grinds and the Tour Models, but I have never seen the complete set.

[procombo]

[quote name='pegleg' post='876426' date='Jan 22 2008, 05:09 PM']It didn't occur to me to save it as a PDF...

Here is my list of Titleist forgings. These are, as I said, only the production models, but if you have a set of custom grinds, it may help you identify the year they were made. Of course, some of the custom grinds, and certainly the tour sets, may be harder to identify, due to the unique customization of the tour dept.

I have seen the occasional "custom grind" iron that isn't identified on this list. But it's still a more complete list that the historical one on Titleist's site, and I believe more complete than the club books as well...

[attachment=210192:Titleist_irons.pdf][/quote]

Pegleg, this list is great! Thanks for sharing it with us, lets see how long it takes before it appears on the Titleist Historical clubs page.
Grtz Marco

[pegleg]

[quote name='procombo' post='876659' date='Jan 22 2008, 02:38 PM']Hi all, Pegleg has emailed me his complete list of Titleist forgings as of the Titleist/acushnet 1971 blade.[/quote]

FYI - the 1969 - 1971 "Titleist by Acushnet" blade was the first forging they made, and 1969 was the first year the company manufactured clubs. They purchased Golfcraft in 1968, and moved into their Escondido, CA facility. Before that time, the only clubs made by Titleist / Acushnet were the Bullseye putters, which started in the early 1960s...

My list does not, however, include the cast clubs.

It also does not include true "Tour Only" forgings, notably the Forged DCI-B. (The forged version of the original DCI cavity back, before the 962s).

[addamsmith]

Thanks so much Pegleg for you list. It is a great edition to the post.
Also a special thanks to Seayhorse for his great collection pictures.
Drexel64
During the late 90 and up to 2004, because of the "tiger" Titleist and Mizuno older blades sky rocketed in price.
Now most of us collect them for there feel.
The older models are very hard to hit and have no forgivness in them at all.
I am a Pro and I still now play the older Titleist blade and I have tried every newer model of Titleist and I keep going back to my trusty old blades.
But that's just me.

[seayhorse]

Just took some pictures of my #26 Titleist Custom Grinds. They are the bullet back version and they have been rechromed. They have a very thin top line and the shafts are Dynamic Gold S-400.

[pegleg]

[quote name='Tomba29' post='873164' date='Jan 20 2008, 10:40 AM']Adam,

I was trying to find info on my old irons at the titleist link but it doesnt show this exact model.

Here is a link to some pics I posted a while back [url="http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55186&hl=square+toe"]http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/index.php?sh...p;hl=square+toe[/url]

Do you know when they were made?[/quote]

If you haven't downloaded my PDF yet, those were the 1983 Tour Model Square Toe Model. There was an identical model in 1982, except they weren't stamped "Square Toe".

As far as I can tell, 1983 was the last year they used the capital "E" in TitlEist.

(My PDF shows two models in 1984 that used the capital E, but I have never seen a set stamped that way (not even a photo). I think they may be early prototype pics, and Titleist changed to the small "e" before the production run...)

[cambo3295]

[quote name='pegleg' post='876426' date='Jan 22 2008, 04:09 PM']It didn't occur to me to save it as a PDF...

Here is my list of Titleist forgings. These are, as I said, only the production models, but if you have a set of custom grinds, it may help you identify the year they were made. Of course, some of the custom grinds, and certainly the tour sets, may be harder to identify, due to the unique customization of the tour dept.

I have seen the occasional "custom grind" iron that isn't identified on this list. But it's still a more complete list that the historical one on Titleist's site, and I believe more complete than the club books as well...

[attachment=210192:Titleist_irons.pdf][/quote]

thanks very much for that pdf summary list pegleg!

Iain

[seayhorse]

Here is a some pictures of my Titleist #23 Custom Grinds. They are very used and the previous owner did a poor job of reshafting them (hence the different ferrules), but they are still in good playing condition.

[addamsmith]

Hi Seayhorse
Great pic's mate
Are the #23 irons thick med or thin top line?
Thanks
Addam

[seayhorse]

Hey addam. I would say that they are a medium top line. Here is two more pictures of the 5 and 8 iron from a top view.

[seayhorse]

Here are some pictures of my #6 Titleist Custom Grind's or as I like to call them, my Funky Grinds. These irons have the strangest muscle back that I have ever seen. They have not been rechromed but they were obviously used very little and were very well cared for. They have Dynamic Gold S-300 Shafts and Golf Pride Tour Velvet Gord grips.

[seayhorse]

Here are some pictures of my #23 Titleist Custom Grinds that have the straight line muscle back like the 1985 Tour Models had. The 2-Iron is the only one that is shafted and the 3-pw have no shafts in them at this time. The 2-iron is stamped #233, but I think that Titleist may have accidently stamped the extra 3 because I have never seen a Custom Grind that was triple digit.

[addamsmith]

Great Pics Seayhorse
Those #6 irons look like they have a very sharp leading edge.
Also the New pics of the #23 are they bigger than the other sets in size?
Thanks mate
Addam

[seayhorse]

Hello Addam. The #23 Grinds appear to be about the same size as the others. I know that the 1985 Tour Models were visibly larger than the other Tour Models but these #23 Grinds are more the traditional size like the other Custom Grinds.

[seayhorse]

Here are some pictures of some of my Custom Grind sets in the bag. Picture #1 is of my #23 Grinds that look like the 1985 Tour Models. Picture #2 is of my #5 Grinds that look like the 1994-97 Tour Models.

[seayhorse]

Here are some pictures of some more of my Custom Grinds in the bag. In picture #1 is my set of #23 Custom Grinds that look like the 1994-97 Tour Models. In picture #2 is my set of Titleist Proto's that look alot like the 1985 Tour Models.

[seayhorse]

Here are two more pictures of my Titleist sets in the bag. Picture #1 is my #6 Grind set with the very strange muscle back. Picture #2 is of a very rare set of Titleist Tour Models. They look like the 1994-97 Tour Models but they have the diamonds framing the face like the 1986-89 Tour Models had. A Titleist rep. told me that these irons were made in very limited numbers when the company was changing from the Bullet Back model to the full muscle back model in 1990.

[addamsmith]

Thanks Seayhorse

Great pics mate

Addam

[seayhorse]

Here are some pictures of my Titleist Tour Model "transition" irons. These full muscleback irons with the diamonds framing the grooves are very rare and were made in limited numbers when Titleist was changing from their bullet back model to the full muscleback model in late 1990 (according to the Titleist Rep I spoke to).

[seayhorse]

Here are some pictures of a set of 681 Custom Grinds that I just recently purchased. I was going to try and play them but they are 2-degrees flat and I am 6'2". Needless to say, I pushed everything right.

[Drexel64]

I am going to have to try and hook up my old college computer and post some pics. I must have 10 rare sets on there. Does anyone have pics of the Elk grind??

John

[GatorEsq]

The ELK gring is awesome!!! The others aren't too bad either.

[addamsmith]

Hi John

The Elk Grind is Number #15

Here are a pic of his clubs from the 97 session I own.

Back one page you will see a few pics of elks grinds from several tournaments That Dan posted for us.

The first Pic is one from Dan.

Elk used to love to grind off a bit of the muscle of the clubs. I have only ever see 4 sets that he played that was not ground down. One of my sets is one of them and his Brother Rob has another set.

Addam

[procombo]

Seahorse, congrats with your new 681's. Can you figure out (besides the square toe) what has been grinded on them? Just curious. You can always have them bend back btw. GL

Marco