Pretty safe to say no one here has tackled this wood.
That's not to say it has never been done or, heaven help us, can't be done. If you can get your hands on some staves there is no reason to not experiment.
Try a bend-thru-the-handle bow 1 1/4" wide twice your draw length plus a few inches just for safety. Go for a middlling draw weight like 40-45 lbs. Depending on how that behaves will indicate what the wood will handle.
For example, it takes great set. That tells you it is weak in compression and would need to be wider. If the back fails you got a wood that needs a backing because it sucks in tension. If it makes a light weight, fast shooting bow with little handshock I'll be open to trade for a stave or two. It's a nut tree so there is a good chance you have access to some good wood. Pity there is just no research out there to tap into before you start.
To my mind the worst case scenario would not be spending a pile of hours to discover it's crappy wood. Bad would be defined by learning it is great wood and I only had the one stave, now they are all cut down and a housing development took their place.
