Narrow
The skipper
A skinny trailing edge looks surgical until a 30-mile plains wind gets under it. Then it is a skipper. We retire it from the wind holes or we stop pretending.
High plains · Polk Street · grind table
Grind tables are a width decision, not a catalog of nicknames.
Bounce Width is a Polk Street table that measures trailing-edge width for panhandle turf. We do not recite grind letters. We ask how much sole you can afford when the wind is a profession and the ground is caliche.
Honest
The table pick
An honest width for buffalo grass and caliche is usually uglier than the catalog photo. It stays down. It comes out. It does not become a story.
Drawer
The souvenir
A wide, scooped souvenir from a humid vacation will shovel Amarillo dust. It can live in a drawer. It cannot live on Polk Street.
Why a table on Polk
Letters are for catalogs. Width is for wind.
Llano Estacado wind will skip a narrow trailing edge into the next county. Palo Duro caliche will grab a wide one and not give it back. The table exists to pick a width that can live with both, or to admit you need two soles.
Narrow, honest, and the one that belongs in a drawer
Harlan Dew measures with a gauge and a greasy ledger, not with a story about a tour player. If your favorite letter is a 8mm reality, we will say the millimeters out loud.
Heard on Polk
Notes from people who left a letter at the door
Ynez put a gauge on my 'tour grind' and it was thinner than the ledger's wind column. I had been skipping it into Palo Duro's second cut for a year. We added width. The wind got bored.
They would not grind a souvenir I bought on the Gulf. Harlan said the panhandle is not a souvenir. I was mad in the lot and then I was not.