Yupp, that is another marketing spin. Pure Ti might sound good when you're not a metallurgist. But when you are, you're rolling your eyes because that is the relatively cheap stuff. The alloying elements give it its strength.

There's not a mill on the planet that will make you little quantities you need for making some eyewear frames. Its made in ingots which come upwards of 8t. So of course eyewear makers have to buy the common, commercially available grades from stockists in sheet, plate or bar form (or powder for additive layer manufacturing). Their demand is way too little for approaching a mill directly, much less customizing their own alloys.

As for Japan, Nippon Steel Sumitomo makes Ti over there. Of course, like any other, they make the common grades in the same quality as their competition. Nothing special there.

Premium titanium? Wonder what that is going to be now. More marketing foo like "X-Metal" which basically meant any old Ti alloy we could get our hands on: https://www.oakleyforum.com/threads/xmetal-what-is-it.119152/page-7#post-1968719

Peter Yee:
- O Logo (Standard Icon)
- X-Metal Logo
- Zero 0.3
- Pro M Frame
- Eye Jacket
- Splice
- Racing Jacket
- C-Six
- OTT
- Romeo
- Blade
- Dart
- Time Tank
- Time Bomb
- Time Bomb II
- Half Jacket (TBC)

Hans Moritz:
- Medusa
- Juliet (TBC)

I watched this 2h+ interview w/ Peter Yee recently:
Really quite interesting what he had to say on how to be creative and how they came up with designs. At one point he mentions a part for X-Metals was inspired by a Porsche 911 door handle. So I was wondering which part do many X-Metals have in common and what does remotely look like a Porsche 911 door handle? The ear stems, I suppose: https://cdn.rosepassion.com/p97976-turgriff-aussen-verchromt-chrom-chrom-links-photo-97976-0-webP97976cop1.jpg

In that interview they touch on many designs he made for Oakley. I thought it'd be a neat thing to add the lead designer to products in the database Dann. What do you think?

Cross post: https://www.oakleyforum.com/threads/half-x.144481/

I am looking for a pair of Furla SU 4850, Color: 700.


Does anybody know where to source this?

(Go-Optic.com canceled the order because it is not in stock and eyeglassesbestbuy.com seems a bit sketchy (new site, gmail email address, no postal address))

Frequently the question comes up "Do my shades fit a particular case?". While hard to measure exactly (rounded ends, etc), I think adding inner length and inner width to the DB might be a good starting point. I'll start with
- http://o-review.com/database_detail_model.php?ID=932 L: 166 mm, W: 58 mm
- http://o-review.com/database_detail_model.php?ID=956 L: 177 mm, W: 70 mm (I heard there's a slightly larger version that came w/ the XS. If that's true, might be worth adding it to the DB)
- http://o-review.com/database_detail_model.php?ID=931 L: 145 mm, W: 48 mm (why is it called "Large ..." is there a smaller version that's missing in the DB?)

Also, I am missing this Soft Vault in the DB. (Don't know its actual name)

It similar to http://o-review.com/database_detail_model.php?ID=933, but only has an indentation instead of the metal icon. L: 150 mm, W: 60 mm

Can you please add this information to the DB, Dann?

Thanks!

Was there a video review? I thought I saw it. But now I cannot find it and the link above is dead.

Answered my own question. Can you please add the mass to the DB, Dann ?

Time Tank.

What's the mass of the Time Tank w/ titanium wristband?

thx!

Dann I had "turning arrows" in mobile view and accidentally hit it. Now I cannot turn it back because there are no arrow icons.

http://o-review.com/gallery.php?ID=31673

Teaspoon Light Bronze / Black Persimmon Iridium

The Gold Iridium lens on the Mars Leather looks brighter and more transparent than other Gold Iridium lenses to me. Anybody else feel that way?
(Is it actually Leather Gold http://o-review.com/database_detail_lens.php?ID=1129)? )

Which sunglasses is Pras wearing on the Fugee's 1996 The Score album cover?

Looking for a bone plasma (1st gen) Juliet frame. If it's not 1st gen and has been re-finished to bone plasma that might work as well.
I've got lenses for it. So if you have a bare frame or one with shot lenses, that'll do.

Hey Dann, I miss the video podcast. Watching that always gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling reminiscing about the good ol’days - especially the episodes about the older models - and I learned a lot too. Thanks for what you’ve done for the community thus far!

Depending on whether they actually faked the Juliet nose bridge. If they did, I wouldn’t pick it up at all.

Other than that the regular pricing for x-metals would be fair, if it wasn’t a limited release (which I can pass up on).

It’s been revealed. 14 made for $14,000 each. Holy fuck:


OAKLEY SIGNS DAMIAN LILLARD TO ROSTER TO CARRY ON BASKETBALL LEGACY
DEBUTED BY LILLARD, OAKLEY RELEASES OAKLEY MUZM SERIES 1875 X METAL® EDITION AND CONTRIBUTES $140,000 TO LILLARD’S RESPECT PROGRAM
..
- Oak

Can you post a link to the press release, please? thx!

What are the differences of the various FMJs? I get it for FMJ "some_color", but what's FMJ vs. FMJ+ vs. FMJ 5.56 vs. 7.62...

Looking for a Half Jacket 1.0 Rootbeer Rubber Set.

thanks!

Answered on https://www.oakleyforum.com/threads/oakley-sunglasses-weights-cacatman.95139/post-1487562

What's the exact weight of Splice? Thanks!