MaxFli Australian Blades Specs

[Premiumstix]

Recently purchased this set (4i-PW) of MaxFli Australian Blades and looking into a full restoration project. 
 

I haven’t been able to find specs online to figure out if forged/cast, nickel/chrome plated etc.

 

Many of the MaxFli’s online are older or even knockoffs, hoping someone can guide this project in the right direction. Pics are attached. 
 

Thanks! 

Edited February 9 by Premiumstix

[elwhippy]

Those heads are cast. If I recall they had a softer core like the Revolution irons. Great looking set of clubs. 

[NRJyzr]

Cast multilayer nickel, same as the black dot Revolutions, and the red dot Revolution Midsize.

 

Lofts for 4-pw are 24-27-31-35-39-43-48.  5 iron lie was 61°.

 

Believe they're chrome plated, but can't swear to that.

 

Parallel bore.

 

[hammergolf]

As @NRJyzr said, they are a cast nickel that is chrome played. SUPER soft irons, imho even softer than any forged club I ever hit. Very underrated clubs.

[Seve0992]

I wholeheartedly agree.  Soft and very underrated.  One of my favorite blades.  The black Revolution irons are one of my favorite irons as well.

 

Edited March 9 by Seve0992

[rwc356]

Gorgeous clubs for sure! I think these were I think these were designed by Tad Moore @majic, He might be able to provide more details.

 

Bob

 

[NRJyzr]

40 minutes ago, rwc356 said:

Gorgeous clubs for sure! I think these were I think these were designed by Tad Moore @majic, He might be able to provide more details.

 

Bob

 

 

Tad wasn't involved in the 99 Aussie Blades (he mentioned that at some point here on WRX). 

 

The previous version, the MCT-97, were designed by Ralph Maltby.  But, apparently Maltby wasn't involved with the 1999 set either; remember seeing a post about that somewhere here in the past.

 

Edited March 10 by NRJyzr

[Golf Puff]

Back around '92 or '93, I had a set of Maxfli TM-92 irons.  I am fairly sure the TM was for Tad Moore (there was also a line of TM putters at the same era).  I believe but am not positive the irons were forged.

[NRJyzr]

10 hours ago, Golf Puff said:

Back around '92 or '93, I had a set of Maxfli TM-92 irons.  I am fairly sure the TM was for Tad Moore (there was also a line of TM putters at the same era).  I believe but am not positive the irons were forged.

 

Yes, Tad Moore is indeed the TM in the model designation.  And, the TM-92 are forged, with pinned hosels.

 

[SupremeDeity]

Those are superb irons. I was undecided between those 2000 Maxfli Australian Blades and the 681 Titleist blades of that era. I went for the 681s and play those currently. My second favorite set is the ones you have there and they get more desirable each year. 

 

My understanding is that they are made of form forged stainless steel. That is a harder steel but possible to bend carefully. To me that is the optimal process for iron heads. While carbon steel is softer and feels softer when struck, the stainless steel rarely rusts and holds its strength longer. All it needs is repolishing, regrooving and paint usually. 

 

The old irons of the early 20th century were forged stainless and some of those show not much rust even nearly 100 years later. 

 

If anyone has a full set of those Australian Baldes 2 to pw for sale in good condition please let me know. 

Edited July 14 by SupremeDeity

[NRJyzr]

8 minutes ago, SupremeDeity said:

My understanding is that they are made of form forged stainless steel

 

If you're referring to the Aussie Blades, no, they're cast nickel.  Same process as used on the Revolution black dots, red dots, and A10 Tour Limited irons.

 

[SupremeDeity]

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Edited July 15 by SupremeDeity
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[SupremeDeity]

1 hour ago, SupremeDeity said:

2000

Interesting. I never heard that before. As stated earlier alot of old golf clubs, such as McGregor Hogan Parmasters were made of forged stainless steel. I have always thought that forged form stainless is ideal for clubs including putters. I thought the 2000 Australians were stainless. Do you have a verified reference for the nickel? I'll stand corrected. The A10s were said to be made of cast stainless steel. Stainless steel is a term that refers to many types of steel that tends not to rust. I rarely to never see rust on the Australian Blade 2000. It could be that particular steel had high levels of nickel and chrome. Chrome is the main component of most stainless steels that provide the rustless quality. It is possible that the Baldes were cast. I would have made the nickel chrome steel forged for better feel and toned down the roll marks. 

 

It has not been stated yet what type of cast or form forging was applied to the 2000 Australian blades. 

 

 

https://mizunogolf.com/ca/art-of-forging/

 

"In general, form forged are rough cast, then pounded into final shape with a forging process. Full on forged is pounded into shape from a billet of steel."

 

 

Edited July 15 by SupremeDeity

[NRJyzr]

It's a little hard to wring anything out of the Maxfli website through the Wayback Machine, in part because Maxfli began using Flash on their website around 2002, which doesn't play well with the Wayback Machine.  In 1999, their site mentions the new Revolution irons, but the only clubs listed are the MCT-97 Australian Blades, which were cast 304 stainless.

 

It's also hard to find 26 year old press releases relating to the Revolution irons, especially because the Revolution name has been reused a few times.

 

The closest thing I can find on the Maxfli site relates to the Revolution Midsize.  I'll paste an image of that below, but here's the limited text:

 

Maxfli is introducing a new midsize iron that will help good golfers play better. The new Maxfli Revolution MidSize irons feature the same multilayer technology as the Revolution irons, with a soft nickel inner compound for soft feel and a hard chrome outer layer for improved consistency. This combination gives them the consistency of cast clubs, with the soft feel of forged clubs.

Three distinct features that make the Revolution Midsize irons unique:

• 1/4" longer blade length making the club more forgiving of mis-hits near the toe.
• Progressive offset to promote a higher ball trajectory.
• Lower center of gravity makes the clubs easier to play.

Edited July 15 by NRJyzr

[NRJyzr]

To avoid cluttering the above, adding a bit more in this separate post...

 

The Aussie Blades, Revolution irons (black and red), and A10 irons were all released during the early days of golf forums.  They were discussed to death in what was the largest such forum, GEA (Golf Equipment Aficionados), in that 1999-2002 time frame.  Sadly, all that content is lost, through platform moves, software changes, all the usual reasons, and the eventual loss of interest on the part of the owner of said forum.  Last I heard, he even has largely quit golf.

 

I don't like putting it in these terms, but...   I was active on the above forum at the time, read all this stuff, and have always had a fairly good memory.  I was very interested in the Maxfli products at the time, but never bought any; wound up wallowing in the world of Ram, which ironically/sadly was also on the way out.  Sorry for the brief moment of pomposity. 

 

The Revolution irons were produced with what was a unique-to-Maxfli Multilayer process, using cast nickel at the core.  Maxfli never went into great detail on this process, we all assumed for trade secret reasons.  The news of the time made much of the 1999 Aussie Blades, both sets of Revolution irons, and the A10 Tour Limited irons, all being produced using this same multilayer process.

 

Because of the mythology that surrounds forged irons, over the years a great many folks have just assumed these were some form of forging, but none of the news or press releases of the time made any mention of forging.  Many comments expressed surprise that a cast club could be so easily adjusted for loft and lie, and showed wear similar to what is seen in forged clubs (dings), except for the browning often seen in forged carbon steel clubs.

 

Another difficulty in finding much info about these clubs...  TaylorMade Adidas purchased Maxfli around the time the A10 irons were released.  They were *really* only interested in the intellectual property related to the golf ball.  I've never heard what happened with any of the golf club information.  Anything club related at what might be called "tour level" was migrated to TM, while Maxfli became a lower tier product.  Eventually, they sold Maxfli, except for the Noodle, and its now owned by Dick's Sporting Goods.  And here we are.  

 

[MrFlipper]

I played black dots for a couple years back in those days. The post directly above ^^^ is my understanding also. Been a fan and collector of maxfli irons from the middle 60’s sets through the Made in Australia irons and ending with the black dots. Classic irons that are more or less forgotten now.

[SupremeDeity]

It is a bit unclear from your posts. Nickel tends to rust less than carbon steel and so those irons were nearly stainless. What the exact composition of the alloys/metal were is not yet known. Most of the sets of the 2000 Maxfli Australin blades show almost no rust and they usually don't have a nickel color metal underneath in the worn spots. That is one thing that impressed me. I use to work in a new and used golf equipment (now I am working towards a fintech firm) and The Revolutions would sometimes show rust 

 

https://www.sundaysticks.com.au/products/maxfli-revolution-single-iron-sold-separately-regular-flex-steel-good-condition-14108

 

But I don't recall seeing the 2000 Blade irons showing any. Again, if anyone has a set of the 2000 blades for sale in good condition (2 or 3 through pw) please let me know, as I am interested. 

 

 

Edited July 19 by SupremeDeity

[Jiggered]

On 7/15/2025 at 1:12 PM, NRJyzr said:

It's a little hard to wring anything out of the Maxfli website through the Wayback Machine, in part because Maxfli began using Flash on their website around 2002, which doesn't play well with the Wayback Machine.  In 1999, their site mentions the new Revolution irons, but the only clubs listed are the MCT-97 Australian Blades, which were cast 304 stainless.

 

It's also hard to find 26 year old press releases relating to the Revolution irons, especially because the Revolution name has been reused a few times.

 

The closest thing I can find on the Maxfli site relates to the Revolution Midsize.  I'll paste an image of that below, but here's the limited text:

 

Maxfli is introducing a new midsize iron that will help good golfers play better. The new Maxfli Revolution MidSize irons feature the same multilayer technology as the Revolution irons, with a soft nickel inner compound for soft feel and a hard chrome outer layer for improved consistency. This combination gives them the consistency of cast clubs, with the soft feel of forged clubs.

Three distinct features that make the Revolution Midsize irons unique:

• 1/4" longer blade length making the club more forgiving of mis-hits near the toe.
• Progressive offset to promote a higher ball trajectory.
• Lower center of gravity makes the clubs easier to play.

 

 

That's fantastic information you post there, thanks!

 

Reading the blurb though it reads "A soft nickel inner compound", are they referring to a nickel stainless steel alloy? 

That was used extensively in cast heads post war in the UK and Australia, to test just place a magnet on the head, if it sticks it's most likely a nickel containing stainless.

 

I can't see what they'd gain by using pure nickel?

[MrFlipper]

35 minutes ago, Jiggered said:

 

 

That's fantastic information you post there, thanks!

 

Reading the blurb though it reads "A soft nickel inner compound", are they referring to a nickel stainless steel alloy? 

That was used extensively in cast heads post war in the UK and Australia, to test just place a magnet on the head, if it sticks it's most likely a nickel containing stainless.

 

I can't see what they'd gain by using pure nickel?

Just for funsies, magnets don’t stick to revolution black dots. Don’t stick to Ram nickels either. 

[Jiggered]

1 hour ago, MrFlipper said:

Just for funsies, magnets don’t stick to revolution black dots. Don’t stick to Ram nickels either. 

 

Sounds like I've got it wrong then.

 

I've always assumed that because nickel is magnetic then nickel stainless steels will be, but reading a little on the internet reveals that the whole stainless magnetism thing is a lot more involved than I thought and how the steel is heat treated can have a huge effect on it.

[NRJyzr]

5 hours ago, Jiggered said:

 

 

That's fantastic information you post there, thanks!

 

Reading the blurb though it reads "A soft nickel inner compound", are they referring to a nickel stainless steel alloy? 

That was used extensively in cast heads post war in the UK and Australia, to test just place a magnet on the head, if it sticks it's most likely a nickel containing stainless.

 

I can't see what they'd gain by using pure nickel?

 

It's quite possible (likely?).  I admit I don't know.  😞

 

Edited July 21 by NRJyzr

[ezgoer]

For sake of discussion I tried my similar vintage to the Revolution’s Maxfli A10 Tour Limited models and a refrigerator magnet was attracted to them but wouldn’t hold onto. Don’t have it near me now but guessing I wouldn’t trust my range finder stuck to them.

 

im a little foggy on these irons but I think they are some type of nickel content in construction. 

[Marginal Duffer]

On 7/14/2025 at 5:15 PM, SupremeDeity said:

Those are superb irons. I was undecided between those 2000 Maxfli Australian Blades and the 681 Titleist blades of that era. I went for the 681s and play those currently. My second favorite set is the ones you have there and they get more desirable each year. 

 

My understanding is that they are made of form forged stainless steel. That is a harder steel but possible to bend carefully. To me that is the optimal process for iron heads. While carbon steel is softer and feels softer when struck, the stainless steel rarely rusts and holds its strength longer. All it needs is repolishing, regrooving and paint usually. 

 

The old irons of the early 20th century were forged stainless and some of those show not much rust even nearly 100 years later. 

 

If anyone has a full set of those Australian Baldes 2 to pw for sale in good condition please let me know. 

I'll check on my clubs when I get back in town. - I can't recall if I have a 2 iron or not.  I bought a set in 1999 when I was 23 and playing daily.  2 shoulder surgeries later and I can't hit them to save my life.  

[SupremeDeity]

I received a full set of the 2000 blades from one of the members. They are in ok to good condition. They appear to be drilled from .370 which is OK because .370 is stiffer with less spin. The x100 .370 is getting more difficult to obtain especially for 1 and 2 irons (they may not be making shafts for those anymore). I read that Nicklaus played .370 and his irons were very precise. 

 

I tried a magnet on the irons and they showed no magnetism. I have rarely seen those blades rust and wonder if they were a stainless steel or nickel/steel. 

 

I have decided to include my plans for the irons:

 

I am adding wood dowels for vibration dampening. Bore .370 (by prior owner) for control and in x100. I then have a plan to take tungsten tape (1/2") and use a hole puncher to create circles. I plan to layer 2 to 3 of those on the center toe area possibly near the XFL roll marks stamp (MAXFLI) which is near the center. Then I plan to put a 3rd or 4th layer of lead tape which is silver in color for aesthetics. That should be similar effect to the tungsten of the P7 TW. 

 

Could anyone state for sure the exact area where the tungsten is located on the P7 TWs? The photos attached seem to show lower towards the toe.

 

I demoed the P7s and found they were a bit more sturdy than my 681s when comparing 8 irons to a 150 yard sign. 

 

The Australian 2000s then would be similar to the Nike VPros but with a added weight similar to P7. 

 

Both sets are similar to the Tourney MT irons. 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 30 by SupremeDeity