Do You Clench your Pipe?

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Lifer
May 12, 2015
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Carmel Valley, CA
I really wish a word other than "clenching" were used for this habit. It may cause some to bite down on the stem.

I hold the pipe gently in the right side of mouth, and put it on the left when I think of it.
 

AroEnglish

Rehabilitant
Jan 7, 2020
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I really wish a word other than "clenching" were used for this habit. It may cause some to bite down on the stem.

I hold the pipe gently in the right side of mouth, and put it on the left when I think of it.
This is good reasoning. Plus clenching is reserved for other, lower parts of my body.
 
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Gimlet

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I really wish a word other than "clenching" were used for this habit. It may cause some to bite down on the stem.

I hold the pipe gently in the right side of mouth, and put it on the left when I think of it.
Until I came on here I used to say "clamping". Not sure it's much better but it maybe sounds a bit less fraught.

It's a fair point though that you should bite the pipes gently. Quite apart form damaging the mouthpiece, habitual hard biting can loosen your teeth.