manufactureers

Sorry if this is an obviouse question but i know the makes of nike and mazuno and titleist are good makes 

but been reading TG is snake eyes , orka , lynx and mac gregor good makes for irons.
Just like dont want to be looking at crap ones like slazenger  things

At one time, Matt, Slazenger made very good golf clubs as did Macgregor and Lynx. In fact I would go as far as to say that the Lynx prowler blades that I had in the early eighties were fantastic.

Who know who makes what these days, everything seems to be made in China so who really knows where the quality is.

My friend has Donnay woods and no one strikes the ball any better than he does, so most of it is hype IMO.

I bought my wife a set on ebay complete with everyhting, bag, irons and woods, all for £80. I took her down to the driving range and found that I could hit her wedge further than I can hit my own and with the same ball flight, so that alone, should tell you that fancy equipment is not going to make the slighest difference to your shotmaking other than a boost in moral.

I use Macgregor M685 irons and they have a lovely feel to them when struck correctly, I too was put off by not knowing the brand but I'm impressed and think I made the correct decision.

John is absolutely right in what he says.  Virtually every cast type iron head in production, from top of the range to cheap and nasty, is made by one of three manufacturers in China.  Blade type heads are made in one of two plants in Malaysia and most of the Titanium derivative driver heads in either Japan or under strict license in China.  Steel shafts are either Chinese or Japanese and composite shafts are either Japanese, US or UK. Interestingly, for a decent production run (in the 10,000 range) the unit price of an unassembled club is about £2.00 which includes the branding badges.

Bigger name equals better quality?

Blades are forged and cavity backs are cast.  The forging process produces a much more even grain to the metal but more importantly avoids the microscopic voids in the metal that casting gives.  So the quality of metal in a forged club is much more consisitent, but also more expensive because of the tooling necessary to make them.  In a nutshell a forged head needs a die making for each head, usually in a hard nimonic steel which is then hand polished.  A cast head can be drawn on a 3D CAD programme and rapid prototyped directly to a mould - even a half wit like me could produce a set in a couple of days.