Work Hours
Monday to Friday: 8AM - 5PM
The making of a shinty stick – preparing the laminates It is now almost half way through the season for us and already we have handmade and produced over 600 shinty sticks, over the next few months we are going to…
According to historians and archaeologists, adhesives have been used for thousands of years, probably since Stone Age cave dwellers first applied bitumen to stick flint axe heads to the tops of their wooden hunting spears. In ancient times, people made…
A medieval hurling stick found preserved in a bog in the townland of Derries near Edenderry, Co. Offaly in April 1981 is said to be over 200 years old. The stick was radiocarbon dated to AD 1467-1531 which dates the…
The Evolution of the Shinty Ball. In the early days of Shinty players made their own camans and balls from whatever materials were locally available. Traditionally balls were carved from wood, preferably a knot, as anyone struck by one would…
Hickory wood is hard, stiff, dense and shock resistant At the beginning of the season we spent a lot of time re-doing jigs at the workshop, re-shaping the sticks and making adjustments based on feedback received to suit the modern…
On the 24 October 2013 Scotland’s Shinty players take on Ireland’s Hurlers once a year A new chapter is being written in sporting history with the launch of a new hybrid game of Scottish Shinty and Irish Hurling, called Iomain.…