Badger, Mark St Louis, and sleek , and many more have made some really high performance bows on this forum.My mind tells me if their bows are any faster it would be marginal at best no matter how they heat treat them. The difference between vintage recurves, and new high tech super recurves all else being equal is about 20 fps, and that is using carbon for limbs, ILF risers of lam wood or metal, FF strings. I will use my money for another spool of FF string which has been one of the biggest innovations to come along in a long time when you are talking bow performance.JMO