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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…
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…
Shinty, also called shinny, or shinney, Gaelic camanachd, game played outdoors with sticks and a small, hard ball in which two opposing teams attempt to hit the ball through their opponents’ goal (hail); it is similar to the Irish game…
The original name for a shinty club is a caman, camain (plural). The original Gaelic name for the game is “Iomain”. The club can be made from any kind of timber, preferably hickory, ash or birch. The curved part of…