I've even had one person remove the plastic tips, clip off the extra
length on the wire temple arms, reinstall the tips, and then shape
them.
You can do a LOT with frames...a lot more than you would expect.
-- Chuck Knight
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Chalo<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Elise wrote:
>>
>> I thought I posted this ? but it didn't seem to come through, MY
>> husband wants to order glasses on line but he has a smallish head. His
>> current temple length on his glasses is 125 mm. It is really hard to
>> find (impossible?) that length temple. Can he order longer temples -
>> like 130 or 140? Or will they never fit? Ideas?
>
> If you don't use a memory metal frame, the temples can be shaped to
> move the bend forward, closer up over the ear. An optician will use
> gentle heat to do this to plastic temples. I have done it many times
> with my own glasses, to move the bends rearwards and make the temples
> effectively longer.
>
> My newest glasses have memory titanium alloy temples, and it's a bit
> frustrating to me that I can't reshape them for better fit.
>
> Chalo
>
> >
>
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