either way this is sweet for a first attempt. did you ever consider taking the juliets completly apart and trying to mold individual pieces? that would have been a lot more tedious im sure.

Paul, its just amazing the work you have done so far on this project, its not over yet I know, but you are well under way to your goal, just amazing work and yes, you should definitely e-mail Oakley some pictures of what you did with a link to this thread !

Keep up the good work man.

Oh it's getting close now! Spent a solid couple hours last night after the baby went to bed working on this and got the lenses in. Oy! That was exceedingly hard to do by hand. It looks pretty rough at the moment (because it is) but once I get the rounded profiles wet sanded down this is going to look much better.

My only regret is that on my very first pass last week, I slightly misjudged one corner of the right-side lens and now have a 1 mm gap or so. I need to see if I can make any adjustments to get that covered better. Right now the lenses are just fit in by pressure.

Still, not too shabby I guess.

So the final things will be to drill the hole for the earstem screws, cut the slot for the earstems (and make a few adjustments there to have it operate smoothly) and do the final sanding and finishing.

Provided I don't do anything really stupid, these will be done soon!

wow-just incredible-well done!

Absolutely incredible. It's amazing that this is your first attempt at doing something like this. Great job!

Aaaaaaand, we're almost done.

Just have to screw in the earstems. And slightly secure the lenses.

That was a LOT of work. But worth it. I'm already coming up with ideas for how to do my next pair. :) Those won't be a copy of anything in particular, just "inspired by."

Really nice! Shoot me an email , mike96 (at) gmail dot com

I'll put some earsocks in the mail for you. I can possibly send you some ducati ones if you'd like.

Mike

So what's the tally for hours worked on this frame so far?

Total hours. Hmm, that's kind of tough to remember. In looking back at all the steps, I'd say that I put in about 36-40 hours of actual work. Curing the carbon at the various steps would add about another 24 solid hours.

So if you want to add it all up, I'd say we'd be at about 70 hours total. I still have a little more to totally finish up.

I learned so much with these that the next one will be even better. It was a lot of fun, I'm glad I have some like minded folks to share with.

70 hours, inclusive of the curing process, for a first attempt at a 100% hand-made frame is damn good.

Amazing job !
You must be very proud to have done it yourself

amazing-as i said before, anyone that can make anything with their hands like this i admire-dedication, patience and skill-good job!

I said it before, but you have done an amazing job on this project, it looks fantastic !

Excellent work.
I know this is months old, but what was the final weight on this awesome piece of craftsmanship?


~Yukio