By request: My take on goggles.
Often times after piloting my steam dirigible, I arrive at my destination only to find my eyelashes and eyebrows have collected a mass of gnats, fleas, and small birds. What to do? My last three windscreens have been stolen by flying glass pirates, so I decided to make two smaller windscreens and an apparatus to hold them securely to my head. ha HA! Those scoundrels will have to take my head before they they pilfer these!
These are the goggles that I set out to make when I found the Batman character that was the inspiration for my costume.
*note: anytime a say "an inch" or "half an inch" these are really just rough guesses as I didn't actually measure anything
Often times after piloting my steam dirigible, I arrive at my destination only to find my eyelashes and eyebrows have collected a mass of gnats, fleas, and small birds. What to do? My last three windscreens have been stolen by flying glass pirates, so I decided to make two smaller windscreens and an apparatus to hold them securely to my head. ha HA! Those scoundrels will have to take my head before they they pilfer these!
These are the goggles that I set out to make when I found the Batman character that was the inspiration for my costume.
*note: anytime a say "an inch" or "half an inch" these are really just rough guesses as I didn't actually measure anything
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OK here's what I used, and I spent under $30:
Leather - leather coat purchased at salvation army for $9
Small buckle - from women's shoes at salvation army $3
Waxed sinew - from leather supplier $5
Metal rings - these I had lying around, I think they came from a craft store $?
Plumbing coupler - Home Depot $3
Plastic sheet - also had lying around
Tools:
Dremel with cutting wheel
Curved needle
Sewing machine
Liquid Nails Clear
Leather punch (you could actually use just a small nail or something, a leather punch just makes nicer holes)
Leather - leather coat purchased at salvation army for $9
Small buckle - from women's shoes at salvation army $3
Waxed sinew - from leather supplier $5
Metal rings - these I had lying around, I think they came from a craft store $?
Plumbing coupler - Home Depot $3
Plastic sheet - also had lying around
Tools:
Dremel with cutting wheel
Curved needle
Sewing machine
Liquid Nails Clear
Leather punch (you could actually use just a small nail or something, a leather punch just makes nicer holes)
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You could make interchangible lenses by cutting off the top of the bottle and having different lenses in the bottle lids.
I have a limited amount of money.
if you had the lens holders in could you clarify how you stitched with out every thing becoming loose
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Everyone seems to find the metal accents in the oddest places, so that's gonna determine when I start the project. I'm on the lookout. For the lenses, I'm going to use the material from an old set of racquetball safety goggles—nice thick polycarbonate!
For the band, I want to figure out some way to hide a little velcro for adjusting the fit. If you have the metal rings on the side, I would recommend paying attention if the goggles have been in the sun. Those rings could be really hot, depending on conditions.
An aside regarding the materials debate:
I have always wondered where vegetarians get their bread from. All wheat that is harvested by machinery gets pulled in along with the birds, snakes, rats & bunnies, etc. that have made their homes in the fields. Is there some cruelty-free grain source that I don't know about?
Milk is incredibly cruel if you think about it. Vegetarians annoy me! Full respect for Vegans - they believe in something and stick to it. Vegetarians who drink milk, wear leather, eat sweets (where do you think geletine comes from??!!) make me angry - especially the preachy ones!
I always buy my leather from shoe makers (off cuts on ebay) or use scrap from old sofas/trousers/jackets - reuse!
"A good name": some really interesting thoughts if you ever get a chance to read "The Omnivore's Dilemma". There are many choices we make that are damaging to the environment and to animals even when acting as vegetarian, and some options that meat eaters can choose (such as grass-fed farms) that are actually *beneficial* both to the animals and to the land they are on. I mostly avoid anything with corn products/by products in it now as well as a few other vegetarian foods that are very ecologically damaging, and although I still don't eat anything from an animal (or purchase any NEW products made from animal parts), I will get chickin & milk from a local grass farm for my family. (On special occasions, because "local" still is a two-hour drive.)
Best bet to get leather scraps for a project is Freecycle: you don't have to pay anything, you're reducing waste, and you don't contribute to the death of a cow if that's something that bothers you. Usually someone will offer pretty quickly because artsy people hang onto things we can't use anymore for a long time because it's in our nature not to throw anything out someone might want to use. It's a relief when someone takes it off our hands.