Comments on: Step-By-Step: Custom Building Carbon Fiber Oakley Juliet Sunglasses

By: arnold

arnold — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:39:37 +0000

Hello, those are some great glasses, i never worked with carbon fiber or fiber glass before, but i want to learn, i like the pic by pic display, are there anywhere else i can check out to help me learn more? thank you,

By: ARTLURKER › Hump Day Cool Finger: Oakley C Six Carbon Fiber Sunglasses

ARTLURKER › Hump Day Cool Finger: Oakley C Six Carbon Fiber Sunglasses — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:39:14 +0000

[...] Fiber sunglasses too expensive? Why not make your own? Carbon Fiber Gear blogger, Paul Carpenter did, although instead of 96 hours his took 3,360 [...]

By: Paul C

Paul C — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:10:24 +0000

Great idea, nicely executed but guess you can only get so much from the material at present, or is it experimentation? With each pair you’ll evolve . As for the neighsayers, ignore the apparent ineptitude of those who ‘talk the talk without walking the walk’. An admirable first try!

By: Trav

Trav — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:00:30 +0000

What a douche! those are some fine looking cf glasses. i’d wear them in a heartbeat. again, i repeat, your a douchebag for making such a retarted comment. your probably saying that to make yourself feel better about you already having genital warts.

By: iñaki

iñaki — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:45:59 +0000

wow!

fantastic paul!!!

on question… you put the plastic and then the layers of carbon fiber? inside the clay mold?

non-sticky plastic and fiber?

I want to launch in black gold hehe

many thanks!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:27:46 +0000

Jesus Christ! If given the choice between living with those spectacles and genital warts, I’d rather have genital warts. At least genital warts wouldn’t be on my face for all to see.

This is a perfect example of ‘Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should’.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:04:36 +0000

Paul, my hat is off to you sir! I am staring at my pair of Juliets on my desk as I read this. I never leave comments on blogs but am compelled to for this one. Keep that creative spirit alive and working. I want to make my own pair now! Your CF Juliets are way cooler than the C-Six. Truly amazing.

By: Constantin Sprianu

Constantin Sprianu — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:58:03 +0000

Congratulations for your efforts with carbon fiber.
For even better results, you can use some slippage-resistant carbon twill, thus the fibers will be perfectly alligned. The stacking order is also important; for design-only parts, the quasi-isotropic, symmetric and balanced laminates work great (depending on the stacking order you risk having unwanted deformations of the part after curing or when applying efforts on the part). You can also use vacuum consolidation by using a vacuum generator (it works great for small projects and it will also increase the fiber volume ratio of the component and reduce the void content). You will also have to take care to prevent the galvanic corrosion between carbon fibers and metallic parts, otherwise the metalic parts will corode very soon in the presence of humidity.
I hope this will help in making amazing carbon fiber gear.

By: Paul Carpenter

Paul Carpenter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:58:01 +0000

Thanks for the kind words Tom. I’m glad that this little project gave you some insights into how you can do your own things. That is what it’s all about! I do have a gallery of pictures of various projects here: http://www.interarchitect.com/cf/

Hopefully when I get some more time to do projects there will be some more posts here, with even more details. I’m trying to finish my carbon fiber briefcase and will be doing another pair of glasses someday.

By: Tom Richards

Tom Richards — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:59:48 +0000

Paul Carpenter, you are the man! You have just built up my confidence tramendously. I have made a few things with this “black gold”, but never been able to talk myself in to spending the money on supplies for the bigger projecs i have drempt of, for fear that they would not turn out how i had imagined. I can not stress enough how greatful i am for you to produse this blog. The step by step pictures have oppened up my thoughts on how to acomplish certain components. Mad Respect. I comend your gung ho attitude.
If you have any other blogs or just pictures of what you have made, maybe how you made it, I am all ears and all eyes.