 Well, there's nothing quite like starting the video and the rain starts to come down, it's a pretty miserable day down here at Conway and hopefully that rain stays off to let me complete this test and this test is an interesting one. It's a product that I got sent from a company called Maisel, a Chinese company they make a variety of products and we might look at a few more of them in the future. This is a very interesting one they've sent me and it certainly opened my eyes when I opened the box. It's a wedge, it's very much a specialist wedge, it's very much different than any other wedge I've seen before and that's largely due to the way it looks and that's where we'll start back in the warmth. Now go quickly through what this thing looks like and then back to me and hopefully it stops raining. Right, okay so let's start by that odd looking front, those grooves that we've never seen before and they're cut out completely clear. The rest of the face there is a very fine milling that you probably can't pick up from the camera but believe me it's there but I'm struggling to see at this point how we're going to get any kind of control in terms of spin and how we've traditionally got it in terms of that groove pattern that we'd see across a club face so that's an interesting one. The next bit I want to have a look at is that top line. The top line is very thin to be fair, it's not always expected in terms of what we'd expect from this type of club in terms of I thought it would be a bit thick, a bit of bulk and mass and then if I just turn that round a bit, if you just have a look at the cavity in there, the distance between the actual sole and that top line is huge and obviously if I just, can I just see, yeah you can see that completely clear in terms of those slats cut out the front and when we talk about bunker plate are we going to see that sand passing through there and making life easier, we'll wait and see. The bottom of the club face again is really interesting, it's very, very wide in terms of the sole, it's going to sit very tight to the turf, it'd be interesting to see how it cuts through sand and what impact it has there. I always think these kind of wide soles what we've seen in terms of that bounce is a great help for average golfers in and around greens and you can almost play it like a chipper I would imagine is how this is going to work in and around greens but it's a very interesting one to look at if we just finish off by that look on that front there and if you can see the colour in it's almost, it goes from a purple to a turquoise to a golden colour, again be interested to see how that sort of appears on the eye in terms of some sunnier weather but in terms of looks I think this is very much a Marmite product and yeah that's a difficult one to get your head around to start with. So like I said in the intro, quite a bit different than what you'd expect in the norm and first of all this is essentially classed as a sandwich, that's what Maisel call it. It's got 55 degrees worth of loft on it and as you've seen the expectancy is I can only, there's no tech spec with this by the way, no tech spec from Maisel so certainly not one from me and a lot of you don't like all these marks and blurbs so you'll be happy with that but for my mind there's a sandwich, the only thing I can see that it does is that flat bottom sole is hopefully going to cut through this sand nice and easily and the second thing is those wide grooves that are cut to the face the sand is going to pass through and allow the club head to glide through that sand that a little bit easier. That's the only logic I can put to it and like I said that's from me, not from Maisel. So we'll start off in exactly that position in a bunker, a little bit heavy the sand this time of year but in reality that's what we're going to play certainly in the UK so why not put it to a test in some real conditions. The interesting thing is first of all to address just to talk about, because of that wide bottom sole there's no sort of, I suppose you could try and sort of open this up to give a little bit more loft if you had a little bit more of a bunker facing fun to you but it sets up kind of square and it sort of encourages a sort of very much a straight through shot so that's what I'm going to attempt to do. We've got not a huge lip and we've got a fair bit of green to work with. Trust me, and you can believe it or believe it not, that was the very first shot I've played with this wedge and I've left a little bit jaw drop there because as I explained it I swear to God it did exactly what I never felt any sand what I did through impact there. Now it's a fairly fluffy lie even though the sand is a bit heavy but seriously that's a really interesting start because I never felt what, as you know you normally play, you play a bit of a bunker shot and when you're through impact you'll feel a little bit of weight of the sand hit the club face and you've got to sort of force your way through it a little bit. That didn't do that one bit in that lie that we had there. Now a few weeks ago you'll have seen me test this club which was a chipper and I think this we worked this back to maybe was about 45 degrees sort of loft on this similar to what was in a pitching wedge and it was a very versatile club and I sort of suggested that it could make its way into a lot of average golfers bags and help on them out if they were struggling with the chipping. Now it's interesting this because it's the same principle it's a very wide bottom sole one that suggests just a putting stroke I'm on about now this masal club and again it's very flat to the ground and you'd think that adopting the same principles in terms of a putting style type of stroke might do similar things. The issue we had with a chipper was with 45 degrees worth of loft it was okay for this kind of shot chipper run but if you wanted a bit of loft to get over a bunker or some kind of obstacle it proved to be a little bit of a problem. So it'll be interesting to see first of all playing this shot if we can execute it and secondly what it does in terms of loft. So I'm going to play it like I said very much a kind of putting stroke I haven't given enough there but it's interesting it's not too bad and it does exactly what I expected it to do again slide just sort of that bounce use that bounce along the tight line that we've got here at Conwy just slides across picked it up nice and clean no ground interaction whatsoever that ball clipped off the top. Yet I didn't quite give it enough to get it to the hole but again it does like I said very similar characteristics to what we've seen in the chipper and guess that ball going towards the hole in a straight line and you haven't got to do a great deal as an average golfer except apply that kind of putting stroke which simplifies things and I like that as an average golfer. Well the rain and the weather is not being kind to me but I'm determined to carry on with this review and there might be a bit of a brighter sky coming. So interesting enough like I said from a short chipping area from a bunker it seems to be I'm half decent to be honest with you and I'm quite impressed so far but it's a 55 degree wedge and if you're going to have this club in your bag it's got to have a little bit of versatility otherwise it's becoming a bit of a luxury to carry just for certain type of shots. Well playing into the wind here I've got about 50, 60 yards maybe I would think. How does it fare in a kind of a fuller shot and that'll be interesting. Wow that's incredible pick up. I mean it starts unreal that is. Jesus tonight. I'm a gobsmacked to be honest with you because it's not what I was expecting and again once again that is the first shot with distance of the distance that I have played. It was in a little bit, we haven't quite made it to the fair we had to see, it was in a little bit of a lie there and once again the interesting thing for me is just looking at this is to how it's a strange one in terms of the impact because you feel very little and again it might be just in the head maybe I've caught a ball. Nice and clean but I still feel elements is quite decent it's quite surprising yet again that sort of flat bottom sole that cut through that kind of lie that I had there somewhere I can't remember but there was definitely a bit of grass around the ball and it just seemed to get its way through it fairly easily. It's not what I was expecting seriously in every position it surprised me in a very positive way and I wasn't expecting this review to come out this way I'll be honest with you. That's a bit the battle's weak I don't understand how it does that because what I can't work out and I said there's no tech spec with this but what I said on the intro was when we looked at the face itself there's no groove pattern on it whatsoever we've just got the cut out elements. So what I can't understand there just play this shot there which had normally play with my wedge in that position was a little bit of a stab down on the back of it and try and get a little bit of a check on that second and third bounce. And it did it. It surprisingly did it. I mean we're playing on softer greens in the middle of the winter here so it would be interesting to see how this is performing in the height of summer. But you can definitely feel you know yourself when you're here to sort of club against the ball you can feel that sort of that impact and it definitely sort of slowed itself up on that second and third bounce like I said. And that's the bit I'm confused with but only in a positive way there's not a negative I just don't understand how that face it defies what we know and what we know is that traditionally in our head is that the grooves is what produces the spin. There's no grooves on this so how does that possibly grab into the ball and how do those vertical slots impact on control. I don't know but it does it. Now we're going to finish where we started in a bunker but a fairly yeah pretty steep one. You don't want to be in this bunker if you get into this on this pathway at Conway. It's not a great one. I've played a couple of bunker shots since and it's still impressive like I said I'm intrigued I suppose is the thing as to how this sand does cut through. One thing I will mention wet conditions like I said out here at Conway Golf Club and the grooves start to clog a little as does that big hollow back that we've seen. So that's one negative you would have to be able to you'd have to clean this out somehow because otherwise like I said even with a few wax on the ground in this wet conditions here today they're starting to clog up a little bit. Right file shot not one that you want. Can we pop this ball up and will this continue to surprise me. And the answer that goes in the answer has got to be yes and you can see I'm not the most animated of people but this one's got me confused because it does do a very good job. In summary there's a couple of things I want to point out this club is is not cheap it's 80 quid on Amazon and I'll put the link down below. But it's still not a cheap club whatsoever and it's very much like I said I thought it was going to be a club that you would use. Few and far between I suppose so it'd be a bit of a luxury club in the bag a bit like that we looked in the chipper a few weeks back. An 80 quid for a luxury club meaning that you've got to drop someone out can be a bit of a negative. But I on the course tested it and you've seen the different situations we've been in it's a very playable club. And all I can say is surprise the club is definitely not for everybody it's not by no means a forge type of feel out a bit. But at the same time what it doesn't do it's not clicky it's not it's not hollow it's not you know it's not echoing it's sound it's a good feeling club. The bit with the spin or the control wherever you want however the ball is coming to stop it seems to do a decent enough job. The sand the idea the concept in my head as to what it's supposed to do through sand it seems to do. I've just got no more words to explain it really like I said it's a bit of a it's a surprising review. Perhaps not the outcome I expected far more positive than I expected that you should not go into anything with any preconceived ideas. But when I first looked it I was like oh yeah maybe not but having played it I'm pleasantly surprised to say the least. And I think the bigger picture is not to go on too much is that for average golfers yet again we looked at a chipper. We've looked at this special speciality sandwich wherever you want to call it but it's that wide bottomed soul I think that plays a major part in making life easy for average golfers and that's what it's all about. But as ever comments down below tell me what you think of the performance I asked you what you thought about in terms of looks. What do you think of it in terms of performance? I was shocked as me. Anyway thanks for watching. I'm going to go in although it's not too bad now at least it stopped raining but I'm freezing. It's time for a warm. See you in a bit.