The sequence
Torque, click, hoop, carbon copy — in that order
A sleeve job is not a conversation that wanders until someone likes a number. We run the same order every morning so the ticket you leave with can be read six months later, when humidity off the river has changed and you wonder why the ball climbed again.
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Name on the carbon, wrench on the peg
We write which head, which adapter family, and the air in the bay. If you brought an OEM wrench we match it to ours. If you did not, we pull the right one. Wrong hex, we stop.
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Seat the bolt to spec before anyone swings
A loose sleeve is a liar. Dino or Wren torques to the number on the hosel card. If the adapter has play after that, we write it and we do not pretend a click will hide it.
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Map the ring you actually own
Not every sleeve has the same seats. We turn through N, the pluses, the minuses, and any lie-bias clicks the ring offers. Each seat gets a witness mark on tape so we can return to it without guessing.
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Three balls at the seat, not a hero swing
The hoop sees a window, not a highlight. We throw out the first ball after a click change. The sheet keeps a small cluster, not a personal best.
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Keep the notch the ball already agreed with
If the hoop loft disagrees with the click chart, we hunt play, ferrule walk, or a ring that was never indexed. We do not invent a fourth click the factory never cut.
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You leave with the copy, we keep the stub
Yellow copy in your bag. White stub on our clip. If you come back in November we can see what we wrote in April, including the humidity line.
Time on the pad
A single-head jack is a morning, not a lunch
Plan on seventy to ninety minutes for one wood. A two-wood pair eats most of an early shift. Saturday’s noon close means the pair has to start by nine or it does not finish honestly. We would rather send you home and rebook than rush the last three clicks while the hoop is being packed up.