I got a chance to get hold of an extra +Red M-frame lens and since Mike (OakleyMonster) cannot accept any order for a custom lens temporarily, I tried to make one for a Romeo using this lens

1. After finding the best location (curve and eye position when wearing) to cut it, I trace the original lenses with a Sharpie. Then I cover the M-Frame lens with Saran Wrap.






2. I then cut the M-Frame lens in the middle using a Dremel tool. At this point there is no turning back. It's either a custom or a trashed lens.




3. After about an hour with the dremel tool, here's the first lens




4. Another hour or so and the second lens finished. Now I got a +Red lens for a Romeo 1. Got lucky I didn't messed it up.





And here's the close up of the finished product

Holy freaking crap those look good!

*off to ebay to find some lens

Nice work, Yoko. Those look terrific!

Thats so cool Yoko ! My hats off to you ! I really like the finished product.

It took a lot of guts and confidence to make this happen.

Do you have any other ideas for future projects ?

How is the vision with those lenses ?

Amazing job dude

So will you be taking orders soon :P

Great job, Yoko.

nice to see some oakley looking glasses with some oakley looking lenses at long last.....

Yoko, which cutting wheel did you find works best? I've got an ambitious project in mind

OMG that is so cool!!! GREAT STUFF Yoko!! and very brave too!!!! KUDOS to you!!

Excellent work Yoko! The lens looks great, congratulations!

damn Yoko, those look good. you're braver than i could ever be...

My God they look sweet. In a lot of ways I favour + red over Ruby. I would like to see that in a juliet or Mars.

Any takers?

I wonder if a local glasses shop wouldn’t do it for you (for a small charge) since most cut down their own lens from a blank.

Why the Saran Wrap over the lens while cutting?

Thanks to all. I'm glad you all like it.

@Eric
Vision thru the lenses is great. That's my main concern when I started this project. I first wear the M-Frame and then the Romeo, checking the position/distance of the lenses in the middle.

As for future projects, nothing yet. I still wanted to have an Ice Iridium lenses for the Mars but I think I will need to find a way to put it in my modellers lathe without scratching it.


@Todd
I used the Cut-off wheels to cut the lenses. Be careful not to use a high cutting speed. I noticed that using a high cutting speed kinda melted the lens. It's a good thing that I notice this earlier (when I cut the lens in half, I used a 6-7 speed). I used the 2-3 speed position on my dremel tool afterwards and controlling the tool is much better.

Used the sanding drums, coarse to speed up the shaping to about .2mm, then the semi-coarse, and end it with the sandpaper to smoothen the edges.

@Adam W
I used the Saran Wrap to protect the lenses from being scratched.

The key to this project was doing it slowly. Taking time and checking the fit once in a while benefit a good fit and less mistake in shaping the lenses.

The harder the material the slower the cutter (saw drill or end mill) speed and the same for the feed speed in to the cutter and I believe abrasives work the same way.

However, wood and metal don’t melt like plastic can when cutting and that is due to feeding the plastic into the cut off wheel too quickly. To fast a feed speed increases the amount of friction between the wheel and the lens, builds up heat, and melts the plastic. Too slow a wheel speed causes a rough cut.

However, if the wheel gets loaded with plastic it won’t cut and it would also melt the plastic.

Hope this helps

beware of this : the curve of an oakley lens is very precise to get minimal distortion at all angels. if you are not on the same curve as the ROMEO lens , you will get the distortion. If you want to check this; you can.(anyway here in the netherlands ) buy a laserpen ; install it so it will be in place no matter what, put the X metal with the standard lens in front of the laserpen. Mark the spot on the wall ( paper ) , now insert your +red lense, if cut out properly , the laserpen will mark the same spot again, if not , ah well too bad, i'd still wear em

Have you considered the diamond cutting wheels for Dremel? I think they don't load up with junk as much and certainly cut well. Not too expensive either.

excellent job on that Yoko! Now you need to practice etching the word "X-Metal" at the bottom of the lens to match the rest of your Romeo =)


Speaking of excellent job, The Dremel is an excellent tool for an Oakley freak like us who likes doing projects.

1) polishing my TimeBomb
2) custom cutting the lenses like Yoko
3) grinding down the rivets on my X-Metals to custom make a Carbon Dioxide Juliet.(like my 24K Juliets)

o-xide or CAL I'm new here and that is the second time i have heard the Carbon dioxide finish mentioned. could you post a picture or an explanation on that, since i am also new to the custom Oakley idea.
thanks in advance

Awesome job Yoko - those look killer!

Jake, Welcome to the site, this CO2 is a Carbon/Titanium combo instead of X-Metal/ Titanium combo used on the TiO2.


It's a long term project for me as I am trying to get the right titanium generation to go with this carbon frame

Here are some previous Photoshop pictures from a past thread


and the inverse CO2


pictures are courtesy of members

this is just a self-thought combo