BIG-LB

The Honma BIG-LB line spans two releases on our record, arriving a year apart as the line moved from wood to metal. The first, the Super BIG-LB, is reported by honma.touchegolf.com to be a resin-impregnated hollow persimmon wood dated to 1995. That construction places it in the persimmon era of clubmaking, wood built up with resin rather than left solid, a technique makers of the period used to manage durability and weight in a hollowed head.

A year later, honma.touchegolf.com reports the line's second entry, the BIG-LB super persimmon, carrying what that source describes as a Titanium Wide Carbon Face, dated 1996. The naming keeps "super persimmon" in the title even as the face construction shifts toward titanium, a transitional pairing that suggests Honma was carrying the persimmon-era shaping and identity of the line forward while experimenting with a different face material underneath it.

Across its two recorded years, the BIG-LB line reads as a short but pointed evolution: a resin-impregnated persimmon wood in 1995 giving way, within a single year, to a persimmon-shaped head fitted with a titanium wide carbon face in 1996. Both facts come from the same third-party source and are not verified beyond that reporting, so the arc here is best read as what one publication recorded of the line's progression rather than as an established Honma history.