Tick sequence
Clamp, deflect, listen, write the stair
A visit is a work order, not a performance. You can watch. You can ask why a number moved. You cannot skip the master-bar check because you are in a hurry to make a 9 a.m. tee time.
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Tag the head
Masking flag on the crown or the back cavity with the club’s name as you call it — “gamer 7,” not “the other 7.” If two 7-irons arrive, both get flags. Mixing them later is how stairs get fiction in them.
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Confirm clamp height
Grip end in the jaw to the 5.5-inch scribe. We do not “eyeball it.” If your grip is undersize or has a reminder rib that will not seat, we note it and use a shim rather than cheating the stop.
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Three hundred grams, then release
The mass hangs at a marked station, pulls the head a known distance, and drops. We do not pluck with a finger. Finger plucks are a personality test of the technician, not of the tube.
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Scope capture
The microphone writes a trace. We take three ticks and keep the median if they sit inside a tight cluster. If they scatter, we stop and look for a loose ferrule, a rattling weight port, or a jaw that shifted.
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Neighbor delta
Each iron is plotted against the one next to it. The hangar tolerance on a 4–PW stair is eight CPM between neighbors. A jump larger than that gets a red flag on the sheet, then a conversation about tip, head mass, or a replacement tube.
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Paper you leave with
A carbon work order: humidity, master-bar reading, each club’s CPM, neighbor deltas, and any hardware we refused to tick. Email copy on request to cpm@freqmatch.website.
Honesty rules
We will stop a tick before we invent a number
Cracked graphite, a head that turns on the hosel, a grip so hard it will not seat in the jaw — those are stop conditions. We would rather send you down Broadway with an unpaid hour than write a stair that describes a broken assembly. If you want the hardware repaired here, say so on the work order; we keep ferrules and epoxy, not a full component wall.