Ive shot them all and found carbon way to durable and easy to tune to ignore. Ive gotten real lazy and have gone with carbon on almost all my trad bows. It takes a matter of sec. and a chop saw to tune a carbon. No reading the grain or all the other headaches that come with wood. I always hated shooting an animal and have them break a wood shaft by rolling on it. With carbon, its not that big of a deal. Aluminum is great too, except it bends easy compared to the other two. Tuneing is easy with aluminum as well. Ill probably go back to wood. i just made up a dozen cedar shafts for a man that wanted them for a long bow I made him. It had been a long time, but I actually had a good time making these.