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Every shaft starts as a single straight-grained board of American hardwood — hand-selected, kiln-dried, and checked for slope of grain before it's cut.
Our story
The first game was played on wood. We just brought it back.
The Haudenosaunee gave the world this game — the Creator's Game — and for most of its history it was played with wooden sticks.
Then the sport went to aluminum and carbon, and the shafts got lighter, hollower and identical. Somewhere in there, the feel of a solid stick got lost.
First Grain is a father and two sons who never stopped playing wood — one at the faceoff X, one on defense, year-round, for years. We started milling our own because we wanted shafts that felt like ours did, held to a real standard, from American hardwood.
We make modern performance shafts from the original material, and we say exactly that. We don't call them traditional sticks. They aren't.
What we stand on
Four things, every shaft.
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The original material
Wood is where lacrosse started. We credit where the game came from, and build the modern version of it.
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Feel the difference
Solid beats hollow. The check, the balance, the warmth, the dead-quiet catch on a ground ball.
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Milled in America
American hardwoods, Pacific Northwest milling and finishing, small-batch quality control, shipped from Idaho.
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One of one
Grain is a fingerprint. Every shaft carries its species, its batch and its own serial number.
How it's made
Built like fine furniture. Made for the crease.
No spray-can lacquer. No oiled-and-done. Four steps, every shaft, held to a published Grain Spec.
Read the Grain Spec →02
Profile
Milled on specialized high-speed equipment few shops have, leaving a clean, true octagon end to end — the 7/8″ × 1-1/16″ profile your hands already know.
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Finish
Sanded by machine and by hand, then sealed in a catalyzed conversion varnish — the premium cabinetry finish — and oven-cured coat after coat until it's fully hardened. Shrugs off sweat, rain and turf.
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Stamp
Species, batch and a serial number on every shaft. Grain is a fingerprint — yours exists once.
Giving back
2%
of every shaft sold goes to Indigenous youth lacrosse.
It's structural, not seasonal — announced with the brand, not added later. As the program grows, we'll name our partners here and publish what's been given.
We'll show up at the community's own celebrations of the wooden stick before we ask anything of anyone. And we keep Indigenous imagery out of our marketing. The heritage isn't ours to borrow.
How we got here
From the backyard to Batch 01.
YEARS ON WOOD
Two players, one material
Year-round lacrosse, wooden sticks the whole way. The feel never left.
SUMMER 2026
First Grain gets its name
The first grain — the original material, and the first wood in the rack.
SEPTEMBER 2026
The first run is milled
All five species profiled, finished, inspected and stamped.
FALL 2026
The shop opens
Batch 01 Black Walnut goes live alongside the core line, shipping from Idaho.
Choose your wood.
Five American hardwoods. Thirty days to check somebody with it.