Well it's been FOREVER since I've had time to work on them, but finally got some progress made on my latest Oakley inspired frames. I'm dubbing this one the "Deviate" since it draws some inspiration from Oakley but isn't a reproduction of anything. I've sculpted this basically freeform, by hand, using only my eyeballs and a dremel tool.

I did some closer-to-finish-quality sanding tonight and am pretty pleased with the results so far. I like the xmetal-esque nosebridge but added on some more chunky square profiles. I'm aiming to keep this frame uncoated, to let the matte carbon show, much like the CSix.

I have the earstems curing at the moment and those will be a somewhat more traditional straighter arm, though I did add a little kink near the temple much like my prescription Drillbits. Hoping to find/scavenge a decent hinge to do a relatively straightforward side attachment like a Frogskin or similar.

I have a set of Fire iridium lenses from the Fives to go ultimately go in these.

More pics to come later. :)

Nice work

AWESOME!!!

Minor correction, the lenses are Ruby, not Fire.

beautiful!

Dude. That is AWESOME. Kudos to anyone who can work in that material. Glad to see an update to the project!

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Well I've got two different shapes of earstems done and cured up in carbon, but not quite sure which route I'll take with them. Really have to get them roughly cut out to tell which might work better. The carbon is SOOO stiff that there is very little give/bend at all, so I have to see which might be more comfortable.

One is pretty much flat, with a 'kink' in it. The other is gently curved. Like I said, have to measure out the lengths, cut out a rough shape and see which would work.

May be talking out of my arse here, since I hardly know what I'm looking at in that picture. But if you say they are stiff - then I am going with the curved stems over the straight w/ zigzag stems. All the way. Absolutely.

Heh. The front one is the slightly curved one and even though it's only 6 layers thick you cannot bend it at all, no flex. So I'm somewhat unsure if it will be comfortable to actually get them onto my head. Luckily I only need to worry about them fitting me. :)

I can of course thin it out via sanding, but don't want to get it too thin in which case it could crack when being deflected. That would suck.

All that said, I am leaning toward the curved one, profiling it something like a Canteen earstem and putting some earsocks on it. We'll see.

I personally beg to differ:

I think that ''kinked'' one would be terrific.

Freesh. I'm ROFLMAO right now. at first glance I thought you typed "Chinked". I was like "What?!?!?" Chink??? WHy you...

Then after closer inspection, I see it said Kinked.

I would agree with the KINKed version. Or maybe a combo of sorts, like the X-Squared arms?

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David, even if the word chinked was used, it could be referring to a fault or weakness such as "a chink in the armour." which I don't believe is referring to a racial epithet.

A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure

Well I'm going to try to do a little work on those to get some rough parts cut out today, so that will give a bit better idea of how they will work. More soon!

Played around with this a bit and with some shape to it, the kinked ones do look pretty cool and might work out well. This is a VERY rough shape, needs to be shortened and have it's edges straightened and smoothed, but might work well. I think I'll go with these for now and see how they will fit. Will have to work out the precise angle on the frames to that the earstems have a little pressure to them when on, but that's just one of a hundred little finicky things to figure out while working on these projects. :)

Latest, almost complete earstems. Rooms for an icon if I choose to put one on for kicks, and a straight stem that will get some kind of unobtanium on it. (Flak jacket cut down might work). The wavy part actually wraps right over the ear and now that they've been sanded down they have a little flex to them.

you and lew should be working at the HQ R&D dept

Well I did interview at HQ for a creative job, but not R&D

;)

well, we got mr ian in already... might be able to "hook" you up hehe

Some small progress. I 'salvaged' a set of hinges off a $5 special from Walmart, ground and reprofiled them a bit and it looks like they will work well. I need to do a little measuring and machine out a shallow channel for them to sit flush in, but that shouldn't be too difficult.

Very cool re-purposing of that hinge. Looking forward to seeing the final product.