but today, I'm gonna make my own glasses.

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- Hello, and as always, welcome to the Laramy- K

optician works training center.

Were today, we have a special moment

our first guest ever.

Lee asked if I could make him a pair of glasses.

I said, "Sure".

And then he said " well, can I watch how those are made?"

and I said "no, you can make them yourself".

So that is what we're going to do today.

- Pfft, we're gonna try.

- Oh no,, we're gonna do it.

- Okay.

- Very good.

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Alright, these are your glasses.

We've got a right plus 275 minus 50 at 130.

I'll get this set up and then I'll hand it off to you.

Set my lens meter to plus 275.

that looks good.

Alright, three dots are on here

that center one is the lens oc

that's what we're going to put in front of your pupil

directly in front of your pupil.

These two outer marks just keep the lens oriented

in the right position for the rest of the process.

Would you put a big R on top of there

with your grease pencil and set it in the tray.

Thank you, and I'll get this one set up

which is a plus 325.

Alright, have a big L on top of that one.

Set it in the tray, and we're on to the next phase.

Alright then, grab that frame, perfect.

Then we're gonna lift that back, good.

Right in there, perfect.

Now we're gonna go ahead

and hit that big button in the middle.

And go ahead and pull that out, nice.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take that lens

and we've got the three dots there.

And what we're gonna do is try to place that

center red dot right there when we put the lens up here.

So go ahead and set the lens on those black posts.

And looking here, try to line those perf- yep, oh.

That's it, beautiful, perfect.

Lift up on that and let it down.

Okay, good, now this is a block

we're gonna load this, that little notch always goes up.

I'll do the first one, you can do the second one.

Grab that from that little tab there.

Nice and smooth, put that on there.

Peel it back, hold it from the edge.

You see the notch again, you see this little dot right here?

That has to go where the notch is

so it goes all the way up in there

so you can see how that feels and do that.

Feels good.

- Yep

- Alright, bring this over.

You can then push it all the way down, and firm.

Little, little push, yep good let it go.

Bring that back over, lift this back up all the way.

And lets take that lens out.

Lets do that again, I'll get that block for you.

If you want to go ahead and get that lined up.

- They're a little slippery.

- They are indeed.

Good AR coat.

Now let that down, perfect.

Alright now here is your block.

Ill give you that, now remember notch to the

to the middle dot there.

Good, that feels pretty good.

Bring that over, push it down, steady pressure.

Let it go.

Okay, bring that out of the way, bring this back up.

And the left is good, beautiful.

Alright, so we've got two lenses ready to be blocked.

Then it could be held in the edgers

so they'll be in the right place as we go along.

Alright, now we have to tell the edger two things.

One, that we have to tell it about the lenses.

And we have to tell it about you.

So, the first thing up here, we have our frame PD.

That's this and it knows everything about that now

because we did the trace.

Next we're gonna have to do your pupillary distance.

Right, we're gonna say you come up at 27.

Cause we're doing intermediate for you.

Enter.

And 28, cause your one eye

is a little bit more over than the other.

We won't make fun of you or anything, I swear.

(chuckles)

- Okay, so we've got 27 and 28.

This one is horizontal movement, we can check that actually.

Why don't we do that.

Why don't you put those on for me for a second.

Looking right straight at me.

You're about as dead center as can be.

And you're going to be looking down a little bit

on the office stuff anyway, so you're gonna be fine.

Put the lens back.

Now the size we're not going to do anything with

and these things we're good on.

Soft means it's a special cycle in here

that we would use because of the non glare coating

so it doesn't slip.

This is your lens choice, these are high index lenses

so we would hit high index.

You have your choices of a multifocal

like the old lined bifocal, or progressive lens

like your other pair, but we're doing single.

What kind of frame?

Is this a metal frame or plastic frame?

So plastic frame.

And we'll put a safety bevel on there for you, as well.

So now it knows you.

And it knows all the things it needs to know

about the lens and the frame

in order to cut these right.

Alright, so now we have told this everything

it needs to know about you and about the frame

and about the lens.

Now I hit data entry and that brings everything

from here to the edger itself.

Now were ready to actually cut the lens.

So ill do this, we're gonna bring this over.

And you'll load it right like this.

And if you come around here, you can see

how that fits all together just perfect.

- [Lee] Yeah

- [John] Once you have it in place like that

just make sure you don't get your finger in there.

That's about 50 pounds coming over.

So just make sure you're just holding it from the edge

or you just let it go if its staying there

where you need it to.

And then we just push the start button.

So ill let you do that.

And take it from there.

- This side up?

- Yep, that notch again, that notch is set up for going up.

Just like that, good.

Alright, and you can hit the start button

and it'll do everything for you.

It'll come across with the chuck, it'll close the door.

And it'll start cutting.

What its doing right now is making sure that there

is enough lens there to fit the frame.

So if your PD was very narrow or the frame was really big.

If you get a finished lens, like this, out of the bag

instead of having it cut in a lab.

Sometimes they're not big enough.

This tells you before you go and ruin a lens for no reason.

And that's good to go.

And if you look in here now you can see

exactly what's going to happen.

It is literally grinding away the material.

- [Lee] Oh yeah

- [John] First it rough shapes it in.

So that's taking a whole lot of material off

pretty quickly, which is the reason why

you have the soft mode and we put that extra pad on there.

Because when it first hits

- It might turn.

- It can turn.

And then the other thing, the interface

that we are talking about that it will use

different wheels, different amounts of water

different speeds for different materials.

So that is why that's important.

Now the smell is normal for a high index lance.

- [Lee] Its plastic

- [John] Yeah, but only your higher indexes

have this smell to them.

We call it garlic but it amounts to more money.

Now, this one, if you look down, you can actually

see the notch in the wheel.

That's putting the v in to it and that v will correspond

with the one that's in the frame when you pop the lenses in.

Alright, okay, were just going to hold it like that.

And you're going to hit the chuck button

and take it out.

- Like that?

- Perfect, now set it over in the tray.

And lets get that left going, yeah you're fine.

Lets get that left going while we're doing it.

Good, okay, now we need to hit this button here

to tell it we're gonna do the left lens.

- [Lee] This one?

- [John] That one underneath it, yep.

Good, alright now that looks okay

so we can hit the start button

and we'll be letting that thing do its thing.

And we'll step over here and because it has an AR coat

we can just pop that off.

This thing has a special tool to take them off

but we probably don't need to worry about that.

That's trash.

I'll pop the right one in for you

and you can do the left one.

This is a nice brand new frame.

Its nice and soft, its fresh.

There is no reason to heat the frame.

Why risk the damage or chances of that.

You know, these lenses have a little flexibility

I think we can probably just get those in.

Obviously, right eye, right eye, right eye, right lens.

I'm going to do this just a little bit different and

that snap, that's what you're looking for.

So what I would do is take this

I think I'd probably start with this outside edge

get that in and kind of push here and here.

And see how you do, and see if you can get that snap going.

- Here, and here?

- Voila

- It's in

- You got it, you've got yourself a pair of glasses.

I'm just going to double check that the prescription

is where its suppose to be.

Alright, I think we've got ourselves

a complete pair of glasses here,

but we are going to make absolutely sure

that we have got the right powers in the right place.

So we've got a right lens, right lens plus 275

at an axis of 130, right lens.

Beautiful, lets see we got in here.

So far so good.

That looks wonderful, alright.

Left lens left, we've got a plus 325 at an axis of 95.

Oh I like that, looks good.

That looks good, alright.

And these are those dots back on there

that we talked about earlier.

That center white dot on the lens you'll see

and that one should line up perfectly

with the center of your pupil.

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Because we took your measurement of 28 30.

So lets find out if that is the case.

Right, Left 28 right and a 30 on the left.