What a Loft and Lie Bending Session Really Checks
A bending press looks simple from across the room. Watching a full session shows how many small checks happen between the first bend and the final number.
"We can bend that" is a common line at any golf shop with a press sitting in the back room. What's less common is a shop that treats the bend as the start of a check rather than the end of one.
Baseline First
Before touching the press, every head goes across the lie board with impact tape so we know exactly where it starts. Skipping this step means guessing at how far a bend needs to travel, which is how a lie angle ends up overcorrected.
The First Pass Is Rarely the Last
A head goes onto the press, gets bent toward the target number, then comes right back off for a re-check on the lie board. More often than not, the first pass lands close but not exact — a second, smaller adjustment gets it the rest of the way.
A single bend that "looks right" and a bend that's actually been re-measured are two different outcomes that can look identical from across the room.
Why Half-Degree Steps Matter
Loft adjustments in particular get made in half-degree increments rather than full degrees, because a full-degree jump on a wedge can shift trajectory and spin more than a golfer expects from what feels like a minor tweak.
What Gets Written on the Ticket
The final, re-measured number is what goes on your build ticket — not the number we were aiming for. If a head needed a third pass to land exactly on spec, that's what the ticket reflects.
See a Bending Session in Person
Every iron and wedge build includes a full lie-board re-check after bending, not a single pass.