Monday, October 05, 2009

Steampunk goggles for the descriminating, anti-tech-suit, purist crowd!

For the discriminating purist who believes that tech-suits are too "shiny and fast," that jammers are too "vulgar" and give a swimmer an unfair "hydrophobic advantage," that modern goggles are not painful enough to wear and come in to many "bright, trashy colors," we bring you the Steampunk solid brass goggles (Anatoray Volunteer's widespread design No.2) from Etsy

Product description:

Frames – cut from solid brass using some powertools. Outer diameter of each frame - 52mm, inner diameter 42mm.

Lenses – cut from 4mm thick blood-red transparent perspex using some powertools.

Plates on frames – cut from 0.3mm sheet brass, using cutting machine tool with air compressor.

Flexible strap holders – made from 5mm solid brass trudges. They are VERY hard.

Oculars – cut from 2mm vedge-tanned cow leather, painted in brown.

Padding - cut from 1mm vedge-tanned leather, painted brown. The padding is handsewn to the oculars with waxed polyester shoe thread.

Straps – cut from 3mm chemical-tanned cow leather, painted in brown. The straps are long enough to fit even the most large heads, or worn over aviator caps or cylinder hats and era extremely durable.

Strap buckle and loops – made from 2.5mm brass wire. Buckle is fully handmade, the wire was hammered before forming, for additional hardness. Buckle and loops attached to the straps with tin rivets for leather, with brass covering.

Screws and Nuts – made from solid brass and steel 1\8' in diameter. Of course, they aren’t handmade, but purchased.


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13 comments:

Jason said...

grin

Anonymous said...

WOW.

Tony Austin said...

Guaranteed not to float too!

Mark said...

I was just at a SteamPunk wedding this weekend where all the groomsmen had these. I guess SteamPunk is becoming all the rage with the kids these days.

Scott said...

Well, they'd at least ensure you kept your head down.

Tony Austin said...

Especially with FINA! 1875! What a year!

Tony Austin said...

Ian Thorpe disagrees, Natalie COughlin, Therese ALshammar, Stefen Nystrand and Tony Austin! http://scaq.blogspot.com/search?q=head+up

TedBaker said...

I want 'em!

Tony Austin said...

And it will make an nice accessory to the wool briefs FINA is going to mandate

TedBaker said...

Those goggles, wool one-piece suits and a 100y, straight out in the Honolulu Harbour. Bet nobody beats the Duke!

Tony Austin said...

Johnny Weismuller did. ;-)

EricT said...

waxed polyester shoe thread? isn't that in direct violation of the Goggle Shoe Thread Permeability Guidelines?

Tony Austin said...

LOL :-D