Maple Lacrosse Shafts

HIKSTIK builds custom, hardwood lacrosse shafts in a variety of wood types. Hickory is used to create our most popular lax handles, but we also use White Ash, Red Oak, Purpleheart, Bamboo, Maple and Ipê hardwoods. HIKSTIK uses these wood types for their excellent strength-to-weight ratios and their performance as high-end, yet affordable wood lacrosse shafts.

Maple Lacrosse Shafts
Hard Maple is the state tree of Wisconsin, Vermont, New York, and West Virginia. Early American settlers used maple ashes to make soap and Native Americans crafted their spears from Maple. It is used for the heel's of women's shoes, butcher block cutting boards and furniture. The wood is creamy white with a slight reddish brown tinge and can contain pith flecks. It is very hard and has good strength properties. A 30" attack shaft weighs approximately 250 grams or 8.7 ounces** Our Maple shafts are about the same strength as Ash or an AL6000 aluminum shaft.

*HIKSTIK.COM, LLC defines strength-to-weight ratio as the modulus of rupture (lbf/in2) divided by average specific gravity of the wood sample. Hardness (lbf) is the resistance to indentation. ** The weights of our shafts can vary up to ±28 grams or ±1.0 ounce due to the moisture content of the wood at the time of manufacture. For flexibility values and impact strength take a look at our comparative test results.

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