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Re: Long vs. Medium-Long Facing length

Author: John Scorgie
Date: 2006-04-19 21:37

A major problem with these terms (close, medium, long) is that we lack general agreement as to their meaning.

Today's design preferences have changed somewhat from those of ~ 50 years ago.

For example, what was then considered a "medium French" facing would now probably be called a "short close" facing.

I seem to recall that one of the frequent posters on this BB set out guidelines for these terms but I can't find them.

A further problem is that we lack a standard method of measuring either tip openings or lay lengths.

Here is my take on what most of today's players mean when they use these terms.

The categories overlap because I do not intend to start WW III over whether a certain mpc is properly characterized as "medium close" or "medium".

This is just my way of getting a discussion started; I don't claim that these distinctions are necessarily the best ones:

tip opening in mm:

< 0.95 very close

0.95 -- 1.05 close

1.00 -- 1.10 medium close

1.05 -- 1.15 medium

1.10 -- 1.20 medium open

1.15 -- 1.25 open

> 1.25 very open

length of lay in mm:

< 16 short

16 -- 17 medium short

17 -- 18 medium

18 -- 19 medium long

> 19 long

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