If you''re into extreme machine age design, and drink beer while watching golf on TV, this is a cool Kinetic "sculpture". Thus the longer the club, the lighter the head had to be, by about twice the percentage increase in length. For the laymen, the formula they used was to match the product of the head weight and the square of the length. It was a balance that measured the amount of torque the weight of the club exerted about a pivoting fulcrum, such that a tuned set of clubs could be "swingweight" balanced. If you''re into physics and who isn''t, you probably know this device is used to measure "moments of inertia" in golf clubs and the like. It''s a cool read, "heft" is a manly keyword in the patent description. If you''re into golfing esoterics, and play for the scholarly love of the game, you probably already know the "golf club balance" and lorythmic scale were conceived and patented by Robert Adams in 1934. That''s pretty much all the manly food groups. Cast aluminium base with brazed aluminium uprights, polished and scored aluminium pivoting balance rod, sliding stainless steel counter-weight, bronze fittings, enamelled tag. About A man cave Art Deco golfing Classic.
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