First plastic head

[TBAN1418]

What was it? and does anyone have some pics of it?

[LaxMaxVince]

No, but Laxnation said that STX started making the heads out of plastic.

[ReLaxin 13]

I believe it was STX, and the head was none other but the Excalibur.

[I Am Legend]

I believe it was STX, and the head was none other but the Excalibur.

wrong....the Excaliber was however the first OPEN SIDEWALL plastic head. Your forgetting about the Hi-wall days...which i can remember all too well. I grew up using a hi-wall with trad....it was my baby for about 3 years until i moved up to, what at the time was SICK, the stx sniper. Everyone had to have a sniper around here or you were a total lame. hahahahhaa

[RYU]

^^^ Right, Excalibur was the first open sidewall head and came out in 1985. I don't know the name of the first plastic head, but STX is credited w/ the first commercial & widely available plastic head (i.e., there are others who tinkered around in their garages making them, but they didn't bring it to market and patent it).

Here's what it looked like, circa 1970.

http://stxlacrosse.teamusalax.com/images/prototype.gif

Courtesy of http://stxlacrosse.teamusalax.com/thecompany/company_stx.cfm

[XxlacrossexX]

doesnt look half that bad

[Lax101]

STX's old website used to have this great timeline of all the breakthrough lacrosse products over the last 3 decades (yeah, maybe they chose to only include theirs, but hey, it was still a good list?). They made the first plastic head, aluminum shaft, and they linked themselves to mesh somehow.