Saliva in your Stem?

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Short answer is I don’t know, but I would put as “Sometimes”
  • When I smoke outside, almost always I don’t leave a dottle
  • When I smoke inside, it is opposite - Almost always I have a dottle
  • Dottle is mild moist in most cases
  • Sometimes the dottle is very wet (See below for when)
  • If I am extremely focused on something else, other than smoking a pipe, the dottle is extremely wet. In fact that is why I stopped smoking when I am working
  • When I am working with my hands (like cooking) and clenching the pipe, I have noticed that I salivate, so I stopped smoking a pipe when I am working with my hands
  • Longer smoke times beyond 1 hour 15 minutes produce a wet dottle (The length of the session is more important than the size of the chamber)
 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
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I'd be interested to know if there was a correlation between this & mouth shape (as I suspect is the case with stem shape preference).

An overbite, for example, will probably slope the pipe & make it easier for saliva to run down into the chamber...?
What about no teeth?
 
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Jaylotw

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Mar 13, 2020
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A lot. I'm a dribbling mess. I don't own a single shirt that doesn't have some type of dribbly drool stain on it.

But really only when I'm clenching and have to look down.