Making your own arrows from woods available for yourself locally is always doable and fun.Availability like Pat M said.Split timber shafts reduced from a 3/8" square stock of walnut,honey locust,maple,black locust,and shoot shafts like dogwoods all can be used for arrow shafts around me here.It's a matter of which woods in your area match your criteria for your bows.That's something you have to know what you want.Some woods are heavier with less spine and visa versa.The best balanced type wood I use is dogwoods giving me the mass weight balanced same as the spine.For instance.....A 55# spine 30" dogwood will generally give me around a 550 grain arrow with a 125 grain field tip.
Outside of my area type woods I like and have to buy or trade for are douglas fir and bamboo.Many bow makers have river cane available to them too.
It's all about matching the spine weight to your bows' draw weight.
For toughness I like dogwoods and bamboo.
