Lots of great looking food there! I particularly like the corned beef brisket. I wonder if you have tried plain oak vs the Jack Daniels chips and noticed a significant difference. I have access to a lot of oak that's free for the taking so I use it often. (Plus I prefer chunks to chips.)
Actually I never used oak. So far I used peach, apple, maple, hickory and mesquite chunks. In chips I have used alder, mesquite and jack daniels. From what I read I think oak, hickory, and mesquite add the most noticeable flavoring while most of the others like peach, apple, and cherry add more of a subtle fruity taste. Normally I use chunks but use all the chips I have as they where free except the JD chips. I would of bought JD chunks but they only had large bags that cost twice as much so I wanted to try them before I bought a pretty expensive bag of wood. I would think if I had access to free chunks of oak I would use them for sure. After I use most of my wood I will normally by Mesquite and then one of the fruity woods and thats it. Just needed to try everything once til I sort out what I like best overall.
Going to have Turkey pron on Sunday. Doing my pre cook before Thanksgiving.