Heel screw
Mass parked near the hosel. Face wants to close a fraction. Helpful when the rims above the Yellowstone keep handing you a leftover fade you did not ask for.
Billings, Montana · Hex-plug bench
Grams you can see. A stamp that does not move.
Tungsten Bay is a screw shop on 1st Ave N. We walk center of gravity with heel, toe, and back hex plugs — the kind you can point at from the parking lot. Dry Yellowstone County air at 3,124 feet makes a four-gram toe walk actually talk. We do not mill cavities. If the head has no factory hole, it leaves the tray.
Toe screw
Mass parked at the far rim of the head. Face stays open a tick longer. The dry crosswind off the plains loves to steal a draw; a heavier toe plug answers without a new crown decal.
Back screw
Mass parked away from the face. Launch lifts, spin often settles. Useful on thin morning air when the ball wants to stay down and run through the first cut.
The argument
We swap what you can unscrew
Plenty of shops talk about mass hiding in a cavity they milled last Tuesday. That is a different craft. On this bench the hole already exists. You can see the hex. You can hear the inch-pound click. The crown stamp, the loft number, the model name — all of that stays. A two-gram plug and a twelve-gram plug occupy the same hole. The difference is where the head’s mass lives after the click.
Billings sits high and dry. Balls fly a little longer here than they do on a humid river town. That extra hang time is exactly when a misplaced gram shows up as a miss you keep blaming on the wind. We map the three visible holes, load the tray, and write the gram sheet before you leave Suite 2.
On the bench this week
Four weighers, one tray
Saturday half-day
The door opens at eight and the last click is at noon. If you work a ranch week, that window is the one that actually fits.
Wedges stay empty
Most scoring heads have no factory hex. We will not drill one. Read why we send wedges home untouched.
Dry-air notes
The same 6 g back plug does not mean the same thing in January indoor air and a June rim tee. The journal keeps the receipts.
First Ave N
A storefront that smells like thread locker, not carpet
Suite 2 is a long room with a gram tray along the north wall and a hitting net that looks at 1st Ave. We open at eight because ranch and plant shifts start earlier than a golf shop usually admits. Sunday is dark. Saturday is a half-day, not a sale.
- 2812 1st Ave N, Suite 2 · Billings, MT 59101
- (406) 555-0155 · port@tungstenbay.space
- Mon–Fri 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM · Sat 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Bring the actual gamer. Loaner screws stay in the tray.