What about looking at Doug Fir? Keep it simple.  

I think I would switch to aluminum before going to carbons. I've found it much much easier to get an aluminum shaft to tune than a comparably spined carbon shaft, and I don't have to worry about carbon fiber splinters through the hand or arm if one is cracked or nicked and I don't catch it. Heck, a woodie footed with aluminum would be a better alternative  

I have a whole bunch of Graphlex shafts somewhere. Never used them. Several dozen anyways. That was a long time ago I bought those. Jim doughtery Archery if I remember correctly , was where I bought them.  They actually look like pretty good shafts.
Godbless you all, Steve

I've got some old Gold Tips that say graphite on them.

I would shoot aluminum before carbons.  Yes, aluminums bend, but carbons crack.  If undetected they blow up on release.  I have also had issues with carbins cracking around the nocks with the result being a near dry-fire.

I've shot thousands of  times with carbons and never had one fracture or splinter as I released a shot. I have heard stories and seen photos of shreds through hands but I have never worried about shooting carbons.

I haven't shot aluminum arrows in 40-years and I really don't see them as an alternative, although it maybe easier to tune with them but I just can't see shooting them.

Plastic traditional arrows.  Lol, now there's an anomaly wrapped in an enigma.  
     

Give unto Ceasar, that which is Ceasar's.    :D

I shot a bunch of different wood arrows- cedar, compressed and tapered cedar, ash, maple, sitka spruce.  I still prefer the compressed cedars as I found them to be the toughest for the weight.  However, as you noted, the weight varies a lot.  I did not worry about it.  Instead I found that if you could keep spines close, weight variations did not matter so much.  Right now I am on the edge of getting back into traditional full time.  As such I am shooting some XX75 2018s.  Once I make the full plunge, I plan on going back to compressed cedars.