Which steel shaft to use in a hybrid

[The Wrong Fairway]

Hi, just looking for some advice/ experiences from other members. My long irons are on the naughty step again and the 4 hybrid is back in the bag. I want to take out the long light graphite shaft and replace it with a steel shaft. I can't afford to buy a new shaft as I know people will tell me to go for the kbs hybrid shaft. Im doing the work myself on my old adams idea pro and the plan is to use one of a few shafts I have from previous experiments. My choices are a dg s300, dg sl r300 or taking the ping AWT reg flex shaft from my ping 4 iron. Anybody had good or bad results using any of these shafts in hybrids? The reason there is a stiff flex option in there is I have always used stiff graphite in hybrids before as I always lose the ball right with reg flex. I play reg steel shafts in my irons and I plan on building this hybrid to play at 4 iron length.  Any words of wisdom appreciated. Cheers.

Edited September 19, 2017 by The Wrong Fairway

[PaddyMac]

It's not an informed opinion but I have tried a DG s300 in a 5 wood head and found that the overall weight was very heavy. I was able to get the swingweight down to d2 but the whole club felt like I was swinging a mallet. Since the DG SL is about 20grams lighter ( lower ball flight) or AWT ( Mid Ball flight) I would opt for either of these, bearing in mind that the shaft would have to be parallel tip hosel .370 to fit the Adams Pro .370. ( I could be wrong here but hopefully someone that knows more will pitch in )

[RussUK]

I play steel in my 4 and 6 hybrids (dont play a 5 at the moment).

The 4 is TM burner with a OEM steel shaft but the 6 is one i built on the cheap as an experiment.

Its an Acer XDS, fitted with an Appollo steel shaft. Its the cheapest one they do and its spot on. You can get the Appollo Shadow lite are Acculite for decent prices through Nordica golf 

[The Wrong Fairway]

I have a shim ready for when I build the club as all the shafts I have are .355 taper iron shafts. I'm just a bit stuck as to which shaft to use. From the research I've done it seem the AWT is probably the lightest at around the 100g mark. It would mean that I would then have the same shafts from my 4 hybrid through to my 58 wedge. It makes me lean towards the AWT shaft. I still get drawn towards the stiff flex though as I've always hit hybrids better with stiff flex albeit with graphite not steel. Not sure if this would translate over to steel shafted hybrids though. I didn't know the dg SL were low launching, I have used these shafts before in a set of irons and always hit moon balls with those. Think that was prob more to do with my swing at the time though. 

[PaddyMac]

4 minutes ago, The Wrong Fairway said:

 It would mean that I would then have the same shafts from my 4 hybrid through to my 58 wedge.

Good point to def go with the AWT

5 minutes ago, The Wrong Fairway said:

 I still get drawn towards the stiff flex though as I've always hit hybrids better with stiff flex albeit with graphite not steel. Not sure if this would translate over to steel shafted hybrids though.

As far as I know Graphite shafts tend to be less rigid than steel shafts and tend to have more whip and flexibility which is probably why you preferred the stiff in your hybrids, I think the steel in regular should be match/work out ok for ye...

[WUTiger]

On 9/19/2017 at 7:36 AM, The Wrong Fairway said:

It would mean that I would then have the same shafts from my 4 hybrid through to my 58 wedge. It makes me lean towards the AWT shaft.

As @PaddyMac suggests, the uniform feel would pay off. Go AWT if undecided.