Except on the heel if you have too many fibers connecting the bowl and outside surface.
Ironically, the heel is often the thinnest part of the bowl and Straight Grain makes that point the most susceptible to heat transfer.
Straight Grain: Better Heat Transfer/Conduction
- Thread starter F4RM3R
- Start date
SmokingPipes.com Updates
Watch for Updates Twice a Week
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Ironically, the heel is often the thinnest part of the bowl and Straight Grain makes that point the most susceptible to heat transfer.
I actually looked it up and found this regarding heat transfer in wood.
So it is just the opposite of what was originally speculated. And it may actually be the same. Huh? Because the rate of heat transfer is slower across the grain, the actual surface may feel warmer as the slower heat transfer rate means the wood will actually hold more heat. I'd still wager the difference is so small it would be difficult to discern the difference by touching. But at least there is some science that can be applied.
If I had one of those I'd create a seal around the rim of the bowl and blow hot air through the pipe with a heat gun, which should uniformly heat the interior of the pipe, then see where the thermal energy pops up most.
A static heating element inside the bowl could work but you'd have to be precise about keeping it centered and inserted at the correct depth.
Of course most people would just want to look at it while smoking the pipe but that will only tell you how your pipe heats up while you're smoking it, not the actual material properties of the bowl.
and I'am sure there are legit reasons to find such a test inconclusive really.Actually, I just want to see a few different pipes types being smoked through a thermal imaging device. We can post the video of it everytime someone like F4RM3R here has a notion to bring attention to his precious "straight grain" pipes.JK... science, yeh.... it's science.
or significant enough that if other factors or a certain way it can make a real difference but only if other factors let it add up to a noticeable difference.
As an aside, I haven’t seen Straight grain/thermal transfer and cake discussion at the same time in quite a while. We’re either coming full circle, regressing, or having flashbacks.
This IS a perennial topic.
Way, waaay back, in the alt.smokers.pipes (ASP) days of the infernal net, Trever Talbert conducted and posted the results of a series of informal tests using an infer-red heat sensor.
Unfortunately, that portion of my organic hard drive has been overwritten a number of times so I don’t remember the results.
Could be retrievable if someone wanted to dig through the old ASP Usenet site.
If I had one, I would just use it to know when my neighbor's heat signature inside their house having sex. Then I would knock on their door and ask some inane question, over and over. Then they'd start to wonder how I always knew when they were "doin' it." I'm easily amused.
Just like that one pipe that got cut in half. It was really cool that they did that, but really for science you'd have to cut about a hundred of them, right?
Science demands sacrifice. The Aztecs knew it.
Or, maybe not. More coffee!
Yes, I believe the whole Cain and Abel thing was that Cain wanted to cut a corn cob in half, which pissed off the powers that be. And, Abel was just tossing Dunnies through a table saw like crazy.
and then have a decent number of others test the same thing. Then aggregate it all together.
See, that just looks like so much fun. If I had one in the car, no one could ever get away with farting and denying it.
"No followers please. Current followers please unfollow".
People want to follow you because you know rune script.
What's really sad is that I new it before I had ever heard of Tolkien.
So, no. Straight grains have worse conductivity.