Well, like Ed said, the project section looks kinda bare so I finally worked on my long term project this morning and here is a preview.

a play by play or should I say step by step presentation should follow in another thread. I just have to gather all the pictures and layout to showcase this project.

GUTS and ...GLORY!

polished Juliet and 24K XX swap = custom 24K Juliet and Ti Polished XX

P.S. I need a 24K touch-up paint -anyone have an idea?

Here are the previews:

FEATURED :24K Juliet w/24K lens(above):
Ti02 Juliet w/ Fire Polarize (below):





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The custom XX is 4th from the top

from top to bottom:

Leather Mars
Ruby Penny
1st Gen Plasma Juliet w/ orginal Fire (L) and G30 (R)
Ti Polished w/ 24K lens XX
Plasma Romeo w/ fire

They look amazing mate, it would be fair to say that I'm just a little bit jealous!

Thanks Adam, I had this project in mind since last September. just been lagging!

I wonder if that gold leaf stuff they sell in craft stores would work. I still need to pick up a soft vault and try and cover that in gold. Someday.

Very Cool Cal!

very nice Cal! polished looks even better than plasma or titanium congrats nice work

CAL where did you get the 24K lenses for the Juliets?

Wow dude - seriously...heck of a project...amazing!

thanks guys! It's less than perfect as this is my first. Hopefully I do better next time.

24K lens came off the Carbon frame (limited edition Corvette racing team)

They look pretty perfect to me. I love them!! I also really like the Ti/Polished XX's. I think that would look awesome with Ice lenses. That project definitely took balls. Nice work.

Cal, you must walk funny, 'cause something like this takes a lot of balls. Good luck! I can't wait to see the finished product.

Wow Cal,excellent.
You have a steady hand, and some steady nerves.......

They do look very excllent, Cal. Too bad they don't make them like that for us all.

Cal just curious. Was it a conscious decision to use polished orbitals, or was it just you had a spare polished frame and no spare plasma frame?

Either way looks awesome. Have you riveted it back together yet??

Thanks guys, GUTS and the right tools! It took a lot of patience and thinking. I have been planning this since last September.

The original rivet was preserved and was put back in place. A 2 part metal epoxy was used and is still curing to hold the rivets back in place. This epoxy is hidden in the inside surface of the nosebridge therefore no blemish can be seen in the front and at the same time the flex between the nosebridge and orbitals was not affected

I had a spare polished J when I finally recieved the Emerald Ichiros the other day and this made up my mind to do it. But I was seriously thinking of using Plasma or Titanium. Yeah the decision making took a long time.

The polished/24K combo made the Juliet looked a little different from the 24K XX. On the XX side, there is not a lot of contrast between Plasma and polished but still made the XX have that custom look.

I have wanted that combo since I can remember. That is truely amazing

Very impressive, Cal! Always nice to see pics of your vast X-Metal collection.

thanks James and Eddy! These are all my X-Metals and a few of my all time favorite non X-Metals

I would like to have more info on the Limited edition Corvette edition Cal.

Its not in the database here I think.

There is probably none available anywhere, I am just curious about them.

Lets had them to the database.

Actually it's in the data base listed as a Japanese Limited Edition. 24K/Carbon combo

Here's the thing about the 24k Juliet: It was initially created to celebrate the Corvette's 50th anniversay and was released in 2003, I think. The first 50 were given to the Corvette race team and their members (which is now known as the LE). After the Corvette LE stage, it appearently became a Japanese exclusive. It subsequently went onto become an OPD exclusive.

Very, very nice mate!
Just curious, is that a G26 lens on the 2nd shelf down under all of the x metals?

Thanks Adam, good eye there and yes it is G26. Although I don't go shooting much, it's still nice to have... Nice to have just to look at for display. Just like for most of our Oakleys. (we don't need or use, but just nice to have or to look at=)

Hey Cal, nice display (and custom, of course).

How are those binder clips holding your X-Metals on?

thanks E.C. Actually the X-Metals are just sitting on it. The binder clips is attatch to the stand


Here is actually a good picture to differentiate the generations of lenses and frames