Changing shafts.

It can be done, but you have to be very careful pulling a graphite shaft from an existing club head. You need the proper tools to do it. I don't recommend pulling a graphite shaft and installing it in another club head due to the amount of heat it takes to break the epoxy bond between the club head and the shaft. If you aren't very careful the old shaft tip will be damaged by the heat. You'd be better off to buy some new shafts and install those in the new club heads.

Yes it can be done. I've removed and replaced the same graphite shaft in a few different clubs. The main obstacle isn't the heat, it's removing the old epoxy from the tip after you remove the shaft. Need a clean tip for the best adhesion in the new club head.

If you have a heat gun/butane torch, a vice, and a set of balls you can definitely do this yourself, you just have to be really cautious and patient. There are tutorials on youtube on how to do this yourself, it's up to you whether it's worth the risk. The only "tool" i'd highly recommend is a rubber shaft clamp.

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You can switch them, but it depends on the tip size of the shafts.

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You do need to account for this. Graphite tips come in .335 or .350. If the hosel is for a .350 shaft and the shaft you want to put in it is .335, you can make this work. You can use .15" shims to account for the size gap, or you could go heavy on the epoxy and add shaft beads which will help center the shaft in the head if it's still roomy in there. I'd personally go the shim route. I put shims on all my iron shafts because the tips are .355 and the heads are .370.

unless the new club heads have exactly the same weighting distribution and characteristics, you might want to get new shafts fitted to those club heads. Even tiny changes in club head weight or distribution will impact how the shaft behaves and feels.

Thanks guys. I was going to lay someone to do it but wanted to know if it could be done and end up being right. Thanks again. And to the poster that says to get refitted I thought about it. If I just trade old shafts with clubs in plus minus labor of changing shafts I’d probably be close to the price of new shafts.