So I'm finally fulfilling a promise I made a very long time ago. I'm making the lovely Morgaine a pair of goggles.
I actually started this project a few days ago so this first post is about a day and a halfs worth of progress.
I forgot to take a picture of the plumbing parts before I started but just imagine that the bottoms of the googles are flat. I made a template with a sort of bell curve on it to make sure the two curves were the same.
I placed the goggles together and made a mark on them. This will be used as a reference for any holes or cuts I make into the goggles that need to be symmetrical. This should have been my very first step but I was so excited I forgot to do it until after I cut away the back portion of the goggles. So I just made sure they were lined up very well.
I put a piece of tape around the goggle housings to mark where to drill holes for the leather to be sewn on. The dots are 1/8" apart and the tape was put on 1/8" down from the bevel.
This is the tape I used to mark out the holes. I first measured the circumference of the goggles and then decided to make the holes 1/8" apart since it goes pretty well into the total circumference. And then just made little tick marks on it.
A picture of the holes that I drilled.
I'm using copper tubing for the nose piece. I bent it around a piece of 1/2" pvc to try and make the curve as uniform as possible.
This is a picture of the finished piece after I crimped the ends with my vice and also used the vice to bend them to the correct angle. I then trimed them and rounded off then ends using my Dremel and grinder.
Next I had to drill the holes into the ends to mount them to the goggles. I first hammered a small indent into it using the tool below to keep the drill bit from dancing on the surface of the metal.
This is a picture of the nose bridge just set in place.
I decided it would be cool to cut slots in the side of the goggles and place the lens at the bottom of the smaller section. Kinda like the shades put on camera lenses. So this is a picture post cutting and fixing my mistakes with bondo but before sanding the bondo to create a perfectly smooth surface.
