Older styles still in production

[Boomchoo]

Hello,

I know that at Ping you can still order older styles of there irons ( I believe as far back as the Eye2), are there other manufacturers that also do this? If so, who?  If anyone has any insight, I'd also be curious to find out what happens to the "molds" used for cast irons of yesteryear.

Thanks
Mike

[drewspin]

Wilson and MacGregor used to do this in their custom order programs.

I would bet that unless you are a tour pro Wilson does not do special orders, and MacGregor is now a house brand at GolfSmith.

[bogeycentral]

I would bet that unless you are a tour pro Wilson does not do special orders, and MacGregor is now a house brand at GolfSmith.

[Boomchoo]

Well, I'm not a tour pro, I'm not even in the top three of my regular foursome .  But I was curious, so much r&d then marketing goes into these clubs, they're on the shelves for a year or so, then gone??? 

[bl8d]

there wasn't so much R&D in the old clubs. There was a considerable design history of what worked and what didn't and most of the clubs of that period were forged and didn't allow for a lot of eye candy.
The so-called R&D didn't take hold till much later when computers made it possible to cad on the fly and casting allowed them to morph the basic design with new quircks on a regular basis.
This striving for new innovation in the market really put an end to keeping anything old around. In fact no one wants to have any reminders around since the new model are supposed to be better.

[Boomchoo]

That's too bad...newer isn't always better.