Mic
Read the bore
Bram drops a gauge into the hosel until it seats. Millimeters first. Brand stories later.
Fox Cities · Suite 4 · socket permit
Ink the bore depth before epoxy pretends the tip belongs there.
Hosel Depth is a permit cage behind brass bars. Bram mics the socket. Willa writes a depth on a clipboard. Henrik keeps the stamp pad wet through mill winter. A long socket on a short tip is how Appleton heads start clicking on the Fox after the first thaw.
Ink
Name the permit
Willa writes shallow, mid, or long. Paper-mill humidity moves epoxy. Permits survive a walk to Houdini Plaza.
Refuse
Floating tips
A short tip in a long socket is a rattle waiting for January. The cage sends it home.
Why a cage
Catalog necks remember paint. Bores remember how far the tip actually travels.
People walk over from Lawrence with a head they bought because the hosel looked familiar. Familiar is not a depth. Appleton winter will freeze a float that Toledo humidity might have hidden. The Fox does not hide rattles after freeze-thaw.
Suite 4 opened in 2004 because Bram Keelson had watched too many mill-town bags click on City Park after a January night. The brass bars are original. The stamp pad is not; Henrik replaces it every March.
Clipboards from the felt
People who left a floating tip at the bars
Bram mic'd my 5-wood and the gauge kept going. I had been blaming Erb Park frost. The frost was only reporting the rattle.
Willa asked if I play Jones in mill steam or Memorial when the locks are dry. I said both. She hung two clipboards. The bars do not do both.