Ok guys, 2 weeks ago I decided to switch to woodies, and ordered the test kit from surewood shafts. I tested all the weights from 40-45 up to 55-60s and found that the 55-60s shot best out of my bow, with my own handmade b-50 14 strand flemish splice string, cut to 28 3/4" with a 145 grain tip.
Here's a video showing the impact of arrow for reference. Please excuse my over use of the phrase "flew like a dart" lol I was happy with the results.
But I wanted to get your input on this set up:
64" Redstag5728 Longbow
14 strand B-50 Flemish Splice String
Brace height - 7 3/4"
55-60# Surewood Shafts cut to 29 1/2"
145 grain glue on field point
Total arrow length (throat of nock to back of point) - 28 3/4"
Balance Point - 18 1/2"
Calculated FOC - 14.347%
BTW, I did make all these measurements and figured out the balance point on the tip of the screw on adapter for Fletch-tite Plantinum glue (marked and measured) and used the FOC calculation formula from here:
http://www.arrowtrademagazine.com/articles/sept_10/Sept2010-TraditionalFocusExtremeFrontOfCenter.pdf (Got the link from this post:
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=135120#000000)