August 2026
Gulf salt eats ferrule collars from the underside
Chloride crawls under a ring long before the face looks tired. What we see on Dauphin after a week at the beach.
Gulf notes
Shop paper from Suite 4
These are the arguments we keep having over a crusty adapter. They are not swing tips. They are hosel notes from a clapboard room that faces Dauphin Street and the wet air that comes with it.
June 2026
Humidity on epoxy is not a bottle argument
Why Suite 4 still reads a cabinet when the label promises four hours, and what a wet July does to a morning torque.
April 2026
Adapter torque after a rain week on the Causeway
A wrench number from January is not the number that holds after three soaked rounds. How we re-torque without chewing the bore.
March 2026
Mobile bermuda and the hosel height nobody measures
Tight lies at Magnolia Grove punish a ferrule stack that grew after a recollar. Why we write stack height on every ticket.
July 2025
Bore dust, a south window, and a summer set
What the lathe throws in August, why the extractor stays on, and how we keep aluminum out of a grip.
January 2026
Why a Gulf plumber’s neck starts ticking
Wet greens, a salt trunk, and a crook that hides corrosion. The restem we will do and the conversion we will not.