club head collar - slides up?

[Celler]

I'm not sure the exact name of it, but the little black collars above my club heads have slid up the shafts slightly. Not every single club but the more heavily used irons.

What causes this? There's nothing loose, and the clubs feel fine. The reason I'm asking is I'm selling this set to a friend and don't know why this happened. Is it bad?

Thanks

[Snake]

I'm not sure if ferrules are held in place with glue/epoxy or just with pressure. But I would think you could push them back down with a little bit of epoxy and the clubs would be fine. I'm sure some of the club builders here can tell you for sure.

[clearwaterms]

ferrule's are cosmetic. They are held in with epoxy, the epoxy has probably failed, you can just slide it back down with a dash of epoxy and you will be fine.

[allin]

If the ferule is sliding it may be cracked. Often a little acetone will melt it back together, fingernail polish remover contains acetone and will work in a pinch.

[TheLauncher]

I had this happen to a club that was part of a set built by Golf Galaxy. What turned out to happen was that the club head had slid down the shaft relative to the ferrule, rather than vice versa. The club head is held in with epoxy and I believe the ferrules are as well, so it could be either one moving. The guy who fixed it said he thought he could tell somehow by looking at the grip that it was the club head that moved, maybe because it was misaligned to the head and indicated twisting, but I don't know. I would think it much more likely for the ferrules to be moving, which as clearwaterms said are really only cosmetic.

[Celler]

Great - Thanks for the feeback guys.