Help with wood shafts

[Easykeeper]

It's been a long time since I've made some wood arrows, I have grown pretty fond of carbon.  But I still like a nice wood arrow and want to make a few over the summer.  If anybody has a tip as to spine and the type of wood they favor, I'd like to hear your thoughts.  

What spine would you recommend for the two bows I shoot the most.  One is a Blacktail Elite 54# @ 28".  The other is a Dale Dye recurve, 56# @ 28".  I draw about 29", so I will make the arrows around 30.5" - 31.5", cutting as bare shaft testing indicates.  I'd like to use point weights around 175 - 250 grains, again I'm flexible depending on how they tune.  According to Stu's calculator I'm in the range of 80 - 85 pounds for spine.  Does that sound reasonable?  I don't see many shafts available in that heavy of a spine.  The carbons I'm shooting now are rated at 340.

[Bjorn]

That does sound reasonable.........and you can back off the tip weight as needed, should you choose to do that.  As far as wood goes Surewood shafting-Doug Fir; is what I would recommend in 11/32. Surewood has 11/32 all the way to 115# if you call them directly.

[Shedrock]

What Bjorn said.  

[helo]

Ditto surewoods are great shafts  

[Easykeeper]

The Surewood tapered shafts were at the top of my list after searching on this site and the web.  Thanks for the spine opinion, sounds like a good place to start.

[m midd]

another vote for surewoods.

[snag]

If you are wanting that kind of tip weight you'll need 80#-85# spine for the 175gr. With 250gr tips you'll need to bump that up to over 100#!
Go with Surewood Shafts and you'll be a happy man!

[durp]

surewoods X 7

[Stumpkiller]

I'm using 11/32" Surewoods that I taper myself for the last 12" down to 5/16 and making up 30-1/2" BoP arrows with 125 gr heads.  In my 52#@28" bow that I draw to 30" (56#+/-) I get the best results with 70-75# raw shafts.  Oddly, if I try 75-80# shafts accuracy with the Douglas fir falls off badly.  Not so with cedar of otherwise similar spine & length (it just drifts the impact point a bit).  

With your set up the 80-85# should be bang on with that beefy nose payload.  Differences in release technique sometimes have an effect on what spine the bow really favors.