[TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes

[peter fels]

I got some a few years back and felt they were pretty token protection.
Ended up wresting a wire-screen pair from some old goggles
and soldering loops on my shop glasses to hold them in place.
Ugly, but more functional.

On Jun 25, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Lynn Emrich wrote:

> Has anyone run across the clip on side shields for glasses?
> Thanks, Lynn
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: peter fels <artgawk at thegrid.net>
> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thu, June 23, 2011 9:53:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes
> 
> By contrast, there's the advice in Alexander Weiger's book to the effect that;
> Real professional blacksmiths just squint when grinding.
> Never been able to find it since, but somewhere i have an old metal working book 
> from WW1 showing 
> 
> row on row of worker's faces, wearing the glasses they were wearing at the time 
> of the accident.
> Each one of them has a missing or damaged eye, showing from behind the shattered 
> lenses.
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