You are some ape 
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@grapes only six star? I wouldn’t use a six star to bate back briars. You’d want an 8 star plus
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You be breaking the €100 for an 8 star 
You either love your child or you don’t
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No wonder there’s no timber merchant’s left. 30 euro’s a whack for a hurley. Hoola would have 10 hurleys gone in the munster championship
The reason they are more expensive is people don’t break hurleys any more. It’s very rare and plenty of players would go through a whole career with only a couple of hurleys.
There is probably a certain amount of market saturation too.
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A bit like amp going up to 11
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The nicest hurl I ever saw or held was in a pile belonging to Blackrock Limerick in the sevens wan year. I was as usual a sub, getting a game for about three mins.
One of their hurls caught my eye as a thing of beauty, it was neither a cork nor kk shape, almost fanned out at the bottom, with a lovely wide arcing grain.
I stooped to inspect it and picked it up. It felt perfect. One of their bainisteoirs ruined the relationship by effectively accusing me of attempting to rob it, so halfway between flustered and vexed, I didn’t have it in me to ask where it was made.
The second best I found broken in a skip out the back of RHN when I was pucking about at the wall. The handle was almost round. I fixed it best I could, but it was broken too high and I had to throw it out
Climins mate.
I’d say that was TJ Larkin in Killimor.
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Don’t know about that one.
When Joe hurled in LIT all the local lads there talked about was how light his hurls were.
Amazing alright considering winter hurling and the sidelines he used hit back then with the heavier sliotar.
Never held one myself though…
I may have mentioned before,
When in primary school we had a great teacher, a Limerick man who had transferred to the local club and won a few county medals, a great man.
Anyway his hobby was repairing hurleys, common enough back then, he could also take a broken adults and repair it with splice and cut it down to juvenile size,
As a young lad I had a genuine Tomas Mulcahy, JBM and Tom Cashman, al procured from being on the sideline for training or matches,
They were a serious cut above the cistenabanban hurleys that were handed out by the club which were no better than planks, varnished and everything with the original name still markered on
Happy days
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The star rating thing is like something a carpet salesman would say to you - “here you don’t want to be buying that cheap stuff over there. Today’s your lucky day, I’ll give you the top of the range stuff here for a special price but you’ll need to move today as it’ll be gone tomorrow”
Any lad who needs a rating to tell him how good a hurley is shouldn’t be buying hurleys at all
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A gripped hurl for €51.50, fools and their money.
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It’ll make him a better hurler mate, a very small price to pay, he’ll be tippin over 65s like 21 yard frees down in the field.
Seriously @grapes if you can afford it what’s the harm, but you’d have to wonder how they’ve come up with six grades?
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Exactly this.
We went there to buy 2 hurleys. We bought 2 hurleys. We left satisfied customers.
Take it up with Torpey’s if you’re not happy with their grading and pricing practise.
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I know what a good hurley looks like Fran. I bought 2 of the best in the shop.
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You were star struck
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