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Mallet Bay Madison Avenue · Memphis

Questions, without the brochure voice

Things people ask before they climb the stairs

If your question is “can you also do my irons,” the answer is already no. The rest is below.

Do you sit blades, or only mallets?

Mallets. A blade that needs a hang map is a different room. We will look at a blade if you bring it as a comparison, but we will not pretend Suite 4 is a blade shop. The wall, the lamp, and the crew are built around wings and rear mass.

Can I walk in on Saturday?

Only if the mat is empty and it is before noon. Saturday dies at two. After one we are finishing a sit, not starting one. Ink a slot during the week. The form is faster than rattling the oxblood door.

Does the indoor carpet lie like Overton bermuda?

No. The mat has no grain toward the bluff, no dew, and no afternoon bake. It is honest about face angle at the first hop and about a four-foot wander. Grain is an outdoor sentence on the spec card, not a thing we paint onto the nap. Read the note on indoor roll versus Overton.

I already like my mallet. Why come?

Because liking a head under store light is not the same as the wings still aiming after six, or the hang matching the arc you actually make. Plenty of full sits end with “keep it, recut a quarter, stop aiming the left rail at a shadow.” That is a cheaper afternoon than a new family of heads.

Do you sell heads from a single factory?

We keep a wall for comparison. We do not run a franchise. If a sit points at a head we do not stock, the card says the geometry, not a SKU we need to move. Buy wherever the geometry lives.

Is a lesson cheaper?

A lesson is a different object. If the face is rotating twenty degrees, a quieter mallet will still miss. If the wings are lying at dusk, a lesson about “quiet hands” will not unsmear paint. Lesson or mallet is the fork, written without loyalty to either camp.

What about counterbalanced pistols?

June will try one after length is honest. Counterweight that hides a long shaft is a weekly waste. See pistol grip notes.

Sunday?

Doors shut. Write desk@malletbay.shop. Do not leave a mallet on the stoop.