so Friday at work we dropped a few white oak trees, about 18"-35" diameter. all straight from what I can see, no limbs. damn labourer sawed them into 40" logs. but thinking I could split them into billets for sleeved takedowns or even arrow shafts. how long you figure it to take for oak to dry enough to start on them? a year? there are roughly 15 pieces all about 40"x18"-35". should be a nice stash. will be trying to load them tomorrow in my suburban.

I have used white oak and just split it and worked the wood to almost bow size and brought the wood in the house and clamped it to a straight board while it dried.  It dried pretty fast, only a couple of weeks and it was at @10% moisture, this process worked pretty good for me. I removed the bark also when I worked the wood down.

Yeah thin it down and it'll go fast ... you've got all winter to build so no rush right.

I like the arrow shafts idea too. If it's nice straight grained oak it'd probably make some really awesome shafts.

yeah ill be bringing them home tomorrow and splitting them out. will see then just what I've got to play with. feel like im in a candy store.

What would be wrong with just splicing two halves together??? And make some self bows