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.

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.

What Bjorn said.  

Ditto surewoods are great shafts  

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.

another vote for surewoods.

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!

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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.