Bulk metallic glass golf clubs (referenced obliquely)
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Metallic woods golf heads that cracked after six shots. Used to illustrate the "sell anything to a golfer" pricing dynamic.
This actually helps with the precipitation hardening and the grain size. You can use titanium, but it's not as good. The Soviets really developed the scandium addition. If you really want to get the best — sports materials actually often leads in a lot of other things, because, as I always say, you can sell anything to a golfer. High end of their earning capacity, old men who want to be able to brag against the other CEOs on the golf course. They'll pay anything — they'll pay ten thousand dollars for something that's hardly worth it. It's all pride. They were making metallic woods — golf heads — and they would get about six shots before they would all crack.