Do you use soft rubber/vinyl bits on your pipe?

[Ropey]

Please 'splain your reasoning... I'm up in the air.

[Horseshoe]

It is more comfortable. A pipe is a tool, so I am not worried about teeth marks. I think it is easier to clinch and feels better in my mouth.

[Tobias Lutz]

I clinch my teeth in my sleep, and while I refuse to wear the custom mouth guard my dentist insists on, I find the least I can do is use softy bits when I smoke a pipe.

[tmoran]

I use them on all my pipes, except cobs. I put shrink tubing on my cobs and the smaller Forever Stems. I must have some jagged teeth, because before I started using them all my pipes would have bad tooth marks, and I darn near chewed through the MM bits. I don't find them overly comfortable, but I didn't want to damage my stems.

[JustTroItIn]

I don't have them on all of my pipes but quite a few of them. Mostly vulcanite stems as they seem to be a bit easier to leave tooth marks.

[Horsefeathers]

I do the same as tmoran. Softy bits on both of my nicer pipes, and nothing on my cobbs.

[Lostmason]

Just never tried one,,so I haven't bought any either.

[Haebar]

I use them on new pipes or pipes with new stems, but not on my estate pipes that already have tooth marks.

[izkeh]

I use them on all of mine except my cheapo cobs.

[Nature]

I began to use them on all of my pipes after I noticed I had a tooth mark dent nearly all the way through the stem on my original MM cob. I must have a fang or something. This is also the same pipe I clench the most as I use it on my commute.