Goggles for the Lady tutorial

[unicornemporium]

Firstly, gather your materials…of course, you can make your goggles as inexpensive or expensive as you want, depending on the parts you use. The more things you can find in thrift stores, flea markets, yard sales, dollar stores, etc., the cheaper you can make your goggles. These didn’t cost me too much, but I was lucky enough to already have some

Comments

[tchouli]

thanks for sharing - and including pix.
hope you don't mind if we use some of your ideas. imitation is the sincerest form of flattery you know.

seriously - we are trying our first goggles.

thanks again
*waves*

[unicornemporium]

Not at all! In fact, I love sharing, that's why I posted it. I've done my fair share of *ahem* "borrowing" from other people's ideas myself ;)

Good luck! If you have any questions, let me know.

The lenses

[rr_hawk]

How did you cut out the lenses from the soda bottle?

Re: The lenses

[unicornemporium]

You want to use the top 1/3 of the bottle, where it sort of gently curves. I took an X-acto blade and cut off the top 1/3 of the bottle, just about where the label starts. Then I used some existing round lenses I had, placed them on the gently curved part of the bottle, traced them and then cut them out with ordinary scissors. You could also find anything round and the size you want to trace around, just as long as they will fit into the couplings for the eyepieces (or whatever you are using for eyepiece parts)