I dont even know where to start.....I was building my first bow (a red oak board bow) years ago and needed a string for it and someone told me about Gene. I gave him a call and he invited me out to his shop. He graciously looked my little pathetic bow over and made me a string while I was there. I owned a Painting business at the time and ended up painting the indside and outside of his house and spent a lot of time with him. He offered to teach me how to build bows (a real one, lol) adn I spent the next year in his shop as much as I could learning from him. I ended up building a handful of bows during that time including my goto bow for the last 5+ years which is the bow in my avatar.
Unfortunatley over the last few years we lost contact as I travel more and more for work and bursitis in my shoulder has kept me from shooting bows. I unexpectedly ran into him at my physical therapist after working on my shoulder a few months ago and now looking back if I would have known that would have been the last time I would see him I would have said so much more.
Gene was a mountain of a man and I wish I could have spent more time with him over the last couple of years. I am glad that I was able to know him and call him a friend. The Trad archery world has lost a treasure, that is a fact.
Topic: Passing of Gene Sanders (Read 552 times)
