With some shops not even stocking aluminum any more and decent cedars getting more and more expensive and harder to find, there' s a lot of us gonna wind up being sinners. I' ve been horsing around with carbons on my recurve and longbow - again - for the past month, shooting the ones I bought for my compound. Guess I need to just go right ahead on and get the right spine for my sticks so I can see what they really do.