Both Morey and Reidy used their bambo hurleys in last weeks match. They may as well have had ply wood ones for the amount of ball the two of them pucked
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I couldn’t believe it either. We had to hound the auld boy to raise his prices and he reluctantly put them up to €25. €65 all in is crazy money. And it’s not that they are senior and we’re junior b, county players come to him, lads who win actual AIs.
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Is your auld lad a one man band or does he have a few lads making hurls? Torpey has a big workshop in belvour, I’d say they easily have 10 full time staff which would lead to big enough overheads for a hurley maker.
@Fagan_ODowd did you ever come across the Barreler Farrell when hurling in Dublin? He charges big enough money too for fairly mediocre hurleys
I didn’t no. There was only one Hurley maker in Dublin in my day but I can’t remember his name. I would have looked down my nose at a Dublin hurley and wouldn’t have looked past a Frank Murphy
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Bernard Farrell. Played on goal for Dublin a couple of times, with Naomh Barrog now. Nice fella but proper mental on the sideline or pitch. Average hurls would be a fair description
Yeah based out in Howth. I bought a case of sliothers off him earlier in the year, they barely lasted a month. Cores were made of marshmallows I’d say
Good oul’ Barreller - Minor panelist in both hurling and football back in the 80s. Not bad for a Beann Eadair lad. His hurls are like floorboards though.
Have you pucked with one of them bamboo sticks yet? Presume the USP is they don’t break as easily?
No I haven’t. But Torpey does make a lovely ash hurley.
They don’t break as easily and have a better strike. I’ve hit a few balls with one. It was fine but for 60 euro it would want to never break.
Are they a better version of the Cultec?
Sounds similar enough to the Cultec ones. Doubt many will make the switch. Nothing like the feel of the ash
John Sloane in Cloyne makes a fine hurley
I bought a cultec this year for the spare I go through a pile of timber every year and it added up. The way the year went it made no odds to me, but definitely a better strike off it, but a worse touch or at least it took a while to get used to the touch off it.
For €65 it’d want to be coming with an infrared sight or something
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Our main options in Galway are Canning (shit) and O’Dea (top notch). I went out of county some years back. Picked one up from O’Neill Brothers in South Liberties. A smashing hurl, and every bit as good as O’Dea. I wonder if O’Neill Brothers are still on the go.
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I’d say the general standard of hurley making has gone up a lot lately. Rarely get a bad one these days
Yep, he’d have lads with him on and off but he’s the lord and master of his own shed.
Anyone starting up he’s very open to showing them techniques and processes etc but he’ll always say, you make no money out of hurls. He has no overheads and is nearly 80 so on the pension for years.
€55 is probably about right for the price of a hurl. A plank is €10. The lads working there would be on what, €13 an hour? Two hours to make a hurl start to finish you’re up to around €30. Rent and overheads 20%, 36 quid. c.35% margin.
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The only bad hurleys you would get are the ones off the machines which are normally sent to sports shops like lifestyle sports or elverys
…and Lidl or Aldi.
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