The model of iron heads that I used to build my set had a pitching, gap/approach, sand and lob wedge in the line up that matched the rest of the set and that's what is pretty typical for most irons.  In the case of my irons that meant they had very wide soles and enough bounce to be a little scary on hard fairway touch shots.  I built the pitching/46°, and the sand/54° wedges. I later built the lob/58° wedge. I didn't get around to getting the approach/50° wedge until I started second guessing my wedge needs. What I noticed was that where I played I often found myself on a hard fairway 10 to 30 yards from the pin and I wanted to try a club that had a narrower sole and less bounce than my game improvement wedges provided. That way I could pick the ball off the fairway and bump and run it. After looking at my options I chose a Maltby 50°/6° bounce “M” series wedge. It worked quite well and at first I thought I'd get the matching 56° and 60° wedges. Then I walked into my local pro shop and there it was, a 62°/7° bounce Vokey spin milled. It made sense, I'd have even 4° gaps between wedges so I got it. And loved it, 60 yards out I could pop it up and stop it on a dime.

So that left me with a dilemma. I had graphite shafted irons coming down to a FST steel shafted traditional shaped Maltby wedge, then 2 graphite shafted fat sole wedges and then the Vokey. The only logical choice to me was to get all Vokey's and call it done. I drank the kool-aid.  I'm a Vokey guy.  I now have a 50°-08, 54°-14, 58°-04, and my 62°-07 Vokey spin milled with old style grooves. And I'm quite happy with them. My handicap index has gone down and I feel confident with my wedge play. I'm not convinced that they are any better than Maltby's (or Snake Eyes, SMT, Scratch, etc.) but they are very good.

Dean.