white oak staves

[timbermoose]

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.

[Brently]

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.

[LittleBen]

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.

[timbermoose]

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.

[DelawareDave]

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