Thread: DBBS and XBBS (and ABBS)

These are some abbreviations that I have been using, and I find them rather helpful.

DBBS - Directional BBS

Directional BBS is when your face feels BBS when rubbed in the direction you shaved. If you shaved WTG and, when running your hand WTG on your face, your face fells BBS, you have achieved DBBS. Any shave ready razor, used with proper technique, should yield DBBS.

But DBBS means more than just "in the same direction." Imagine you were to assign number values to the traditional WTG, XTG, and ATG directions - 1, 2, and 3 respectively. DBBS would imply that your face feels BBS when you rub at or below the value you shaved. So XTG DBBS would also feel BBS WTG. ATG DBBS (which should just be plain old BBS) would also feel BBS XTG and WTG.

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XBBS - Cross directional BBS

This is when your face feels BBS when rubbed across the direction you shaved. But, drawing on the number scheme above, that would have to be one notch higher than the direction you shaved (otherwise it's still DBBS).

For example, if you shave WTG and your face feels BBS XTG, you have XBBS. Or, if you shave XTG and your face feels BBS ATG, you have XBBS.

With a really great edge and really great shave technique, I can get XBBS.

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ABBS - Against BBS

I suppose that if you could shave WTG and feel BBS ATG, you would have ABBS. This is something I have never experienced. I guess this would really be the ultimate shave. Perhaps it is what we all aspire to with our obsession over the sharpest, smoothest edge and the closest shave.

So, if we label the set of all shaving smoothness's S, we have that DBBS \subset XBBS \subset ABBS \subset S?

I like it! You need a Venn diagram.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I like it! You need a Venn diagram.

Thank you for volunteering your services, James. Please post it to this thread, and also create and post a fitting wiki article. :-)

Originally Posted by Jimbo

So, if we label the set of all shaving smoothness's S, we have that DBBS \subset XBBS \subset ABBS \subset S?

I like it! You need a Venn diagram.

James.

( straight shavers ( Jimbo ) smart arses )

I made a chart to help simplify this for everyone:

Originally Posted by HNSB

I made a chart to help simplify this for everyone:

There's one acronym you all missed - WTF?

Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You've made your decision then?

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

These are some abbreviations that I have been using, and I find them rather helpful.

DBBS - Directional BBS

Directional BBS is when your face feels BBS when rubbed in the direction you shaved. If you shaved WTG and, when running your hand WTG on your face, your face fells BBS, you have achieved DBBS. Any shave ready razor, used with proper technique, should yield DBBS.

But DBBS means more than just "in the same direction." Imagine you were to assign number values to the traditional WTG, XTG, and ATG directions - 1, 2, and 3 respectively. DBBS would imply that your face feels BBS when you rub at or below the value you shaved. So XTG DBBS would also feel BBS WTG. ATG DBBS (which should just be plain old BBS) would also feel BBS XTG and WTG.

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XBBS - Cross directional BBS

This is when your face feels BBS when rubbed across the direction you shaved. But, drawing on the number scheme above, that would have to be one notch higher than the direction you shaved (otherwise it's still DBBS).

For example, if you shave WTG and your face feels BBS XTG, you have XBBS. Or, if you shave XTG and your face feels BBS ATG, you have XBBS.

With a really great edge and really great shave technique, I can get XBBS.

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ABBS - Against BBS

I suppose that if you could shave WTG and feel BBS ATG, you would have ABBS. This is something I have never experienced. I guess this would really be the ultimate shave. Perhaps it is what we all aspire to with our obsession over the sharpest, smoothest edge and the closest shave.

You're making this way to complicated.

You need to simplify it by first taking the cutting angle of each pass, then muliply it by the age of the razor, then divide it by number of laps on leather side of the stop, then add the average post count of the person per day (this establishes a baseline newbie ratio), then multiply by temperature and humidity at time of honing (or ambient dewpoint can be used), then take this and subtract the longatidude/latitude of the persons location, and take of all this and divide by .07526 to account for the curvature of the earth and this should give you an equalized BBS scale.

or YMMV

ps. don't forget to carry the 3

Straight Razor Shaving: It ain't rocket science- yet

So, if I shave against the grain, and rub my hand (left or right?) against the grain, I'm also rubbing in the direction I shaved so have I achieved DBBS or ABBS or both? Let's assume this was done on a Tuesday.

We library folk love controled vocabulary!

LG Roy