field maple (bigleaf) or vine maple as core

Near me is a little wood abundant with bigleaf maple and vine maple. The vine maple has straight sections, but being in a ravine it tends to grow sideways out of the hill, horizontally into space. The bigleaf maple grows upright and there are plenty of decent sized trees about 4" diameter that nobody would miss. Are these good woods for this type of use?

How about rowan? Rowan grows around here as well, and i have found it to be light, easy to work, and fairly elastic. I actually really like the wood of the rowan tree for bows, although i've only made a couple.

Thanks.