
Gear & Equipment
2 MIN READ
September 24, 2026
Dial In Your Irons With This Buy-It-For-Life Tool
If you like to tinker with your golf clubs, this club-building tool will increase your efficiency and help you dial in your iron distances and dispersion.
Learning to work on your own clubs is part of the natural progression for golf gearheads. In most cases, it starts with learning to change grips because of the limited number of required tools, but from there, things can get a lot more complicated. Welcome to the club-tinkering rabbit hole.
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Learning to re-shaft clubs requires specialized tools, especially when working with graphite, and if you want to bend clubs you also need something to properly measure and adjust. But as most fitters will tell you, finding the correct lies and loft can make a massive difference to your game and if you like to mess around with used clubs - being able to adjust them yourself can save you a ton of time and money.

This is where buying your own lie and loft machine can be one of the best investments you can make when it comes to golf tools and thanks to a GearSmart listener Q&A we want to help you find the best best value option that will also last a lifetime.
The full episode is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all other major podcast platforms, along with video clips distributed across Skratch's social channels and the dedicated Gear Smart Instagram page.

Golf Mechanix Clubmakers Loft and Lie Bending Gauge
The Golf Mechanix Clubmakers Loft and Lie Bending Gauge is a sturdy, well-engineered loft and lie bending gauge.
$900
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