If you ever wanted to know how glasses are made, here is a preview of what I have been working on. The material I am using is buffalo horn. It is not a very hard material and I love the random colors or pattern that you can find after you remove the surface layers. It also has a very warm and soft feel to the touch.
I decided to take buffalo horn scales (plates) and started with cutting out the bridge (nose) and then use a marker and just draw by hand to create the lens design. Eventually I will make a template to work from, but for the time being I want to see what it's like to work with this material, and for myself, having an item that is handmade where you can see (slightly) that it is not symmetrical because everything is done by eye, you go back and forth from left to right making sure both sides match as much as possible.
As you can see in one of the photos the lens shape is different, I cut out the basic shape and then elaborated on the lens design, do I want it to be more square or curved.
After Deciding on the shape, I started sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding.
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