DIY STEEMIT RAW (Sun)Glasses + tutorial

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I call it RAW because it is literally RAW. The edges, the surfaces and the design are raw.

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It took me days before I got this result. I made it all from scratch because I had to redesign the hinges... It would have been easier to purchase metal hinges rather than design them from the glasses. But I did it anyway because I couldn't find any shop that sells these hinges. That is why the frame is kinda chunky :-D. I decided not to make the nose pads, I still need to figure out how to make proper nose pads. :-(

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As you can see below, the hinges, ( I guess I have to call them hinges) they have a "nipple" above and below. The "temples" (sides of the glasses or sticks did not fit in well with the hinges. So I sanded the 2 "nipples on the hingesAWAY so they would be flat.

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I also printed out 2 lenses in black. But they did not fit in the frame because they simply are not bendable like normal lenses should be. I wanted to buy the real lenses. I went two days ago to all opticians and just 2 opticians were able to custom make the lenses. BUT..... they would cost me 105 euros! The other optician asked for 60 euros and I had to wait 2 weeks....
If they would ask 30 euros I would not mind it. But more than 30 euros would be too expensive for me.

Here you see I was sanding the lenses as well.

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I watched on Youtube 2 very informative tutorials to make these (sun)glasses.
One from Autodesk Fusion 360 how to bend models:

The other one is a tutorial about the frame by WilliamKempton, another intelligent guy:

William Kempton took the design first from Illustrator and then imported it to Fusion. (I don't have Illustrator).

Below the tutorial

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Printing the pieces

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