I just wanted to share some pics and a little story about this bow.....
The first "Custom" bow I ever had made was a 52" Recurve made by Gene Sanders about 5 years ago. I loved that little bow but back then I was shooting 60@26" and finally came to my senses, lowered my draw weight and in turn sold that little sweetheart of a bow off.
Well about 2 1/2 years ago I was in the market to build another recurve and was searching for some really nice Osage veneers (I REALLY like Osage) and I sent TG sponser KennyM an email seeing if he had anything out of the ordinary. Well he responded back with some wonderful looking Osage veneers (the ones that are pictured on his website) and I bought them immediatley. Well a couple of months go on as I am deciding who to build my next recurve and that is when the economy took a nose dive, I was self-employed and my business took a major hit. I was selling off everything I had that wasnt bolted down to keep afloat. So I put those veneers up for sale and ended up selling them to another TG sponser, Brock from Bull Mountain Archery. He is a great guy and we had done alot of horse trading and I was happy to see him get them.
Well fast forward two years, Gene Sanders had got back in the bow building business after a short retirment and I really wanted to to get him to build me another 52" Takedown Recurve. So I went on the search for some really good Osage veneers again with no luck. I looked all over and even contacted KennyM again to see if by some chance he had anything really unusal laying around. I thought I was going to have to end up using some plain Osage veneers (The first set I got from Kenny really spoiled me! lol). Well, I thought I would give Brock a call just to see if by some random million to one chance he had not used those great veneers I sold him two years previous.......low and behold he still had them and didnt mind selling them back to me!!!! He is a Great guy!
Here are some pics of the bow in process. It has a Cocobolo riser with Osage Flare and Osage limb veneers. I really wish these pics could show the grain character in the osage, they really are amazing in person.
Topic: Gene Sanders 52" Recurve (Now w/ Completed pics) (Read 316 times)
