You know something funny about oak,you can cut into a creosote tie that's layed under set of tracks for 40 years and still smell that oak smell .It isn't bad out side with a chainsaw but if I run any of it through a table saw my eyes water and I get a sneezing jag .
Now that WV oak with that fungus among us ,if that stuff kills the tree I'll bet the log would still be good .Just like the one I cut down .Dry as bone and hard on a bandsaw blades but bandsaw blades are cheap, good oak isn't .BTW that hard as a rock oak is not one of those deals you file every second tank,you might not even make a tank full .