Wooden Lacrosse Sticks Onondaga

Players will be responsible for helmets and gloves and wooden sticks.

Wooden lacrosse sticks onondaga. As steam formed inside a rusty oil tank alfie jacques crafted wooden lacrosse sticks at a barn down a dirt driveway on the onondaga nation reservation a few miles south of syracuse university. A bundle of several dozen wooden lacrosse sticks leans against the back wall each ready to be carved straightened balanced cut drilled sanded shellacked netted inscribed then finally. Wood lacrosse sticks traditional hickory and leather buy repair supplies re string fix wood lacrosse sticks is the world s first online home and open market place for stick makers. Custom handmade hickory traditional wooden lacrosse sticks are strung with traditional catgut leather.

Posted may 22 2019. One of those individuals is the stick maker. Click to print opens in new window. There will be referees a tent for changing a box sized field marked out on the grass with 4 4 nets by onondaga lake.

For over 50 years at the onondaga nation that title has been held by louis or alfred jacques. We invented the game why not let us design the sticks. Even the wooden lacrosse stick which akwesasne is known for is once again in demand. Alf jacques handmakes wooden lacrosse sticks.

People travel for miles to buy wooden lacrosse sticks they ve ordered from alf jacques. Teams will be responsible for their jerseys. The stickmaker alf jacques unstrung handmakes wood lacrosse sticks. Mohawk lacrosse is the company to turn to for lacrosse sticks wooden or plastic.

Wooden stick lacrosse tournament. One man factory in onondaga nation keeps lacrosse tradition alive. The tank in question measures a few feet wide and about 8 feet long. A bundle of several dozen wooden lacrosse sticks leans against the back wall each ready to be carved.

Defensive midfielder emerson shenandoah of the lafayette high school lacrosse team wields the elegant hand carved piece of hickory like a scepter during a friday afternoon practice. They drive route 11a through the onondaga nation until they find his little shop beneath a hill. Lacrosse has taken off as a worldwide sport and lacrosse stick manufacturing is a vibrant growing industry. Louis jacques canadian lacrosse hall of fame inductee in 1999 began coaching and stick making for the onondaga athletic club in the 1960s.

September 5 2013 by onondaga nation.