Oak Flooring for Dummies

[whittle1]

I can easily recognize the difference between red oak and white oak but that is about it. Post oak, Pin oak, Overcup etc.. all become a blurr. Will any and all Oak make good flooring? The reason I ask is I have about 2000 bdft of mixed oak I quarter sawed I know some was white oak I think the rest was pin oak. It has been air drying for a few years and I'm in the process of building a kiln. Plan to dry down to 8% and then want to mill for flooring. Do you see any issues? Do any of the other oaks fall into the white oak category as far as lumber? 

[firefighter ontheside]

Post oak and overcup are in the white oak family.  Pin oak is a red oak.  If you're gonna use white and red oaks together in a floor, I would say either make some sort of pattern where they are separated or make sure they are randomly placed.  

[farmfromkansas]

Do you have any Burr oak there?  It grows here, and although it is a white oak, has a browner color than the white oak from Missouri.

[firefighter ontheside]

We do have Burr oak here, but none on our place.  My dad brought home some acorns a few months ago from somewhere he had gone.  He said they were overcup, but they were huge.  I figured out they were burr oak.