Susan,
My eyeglass frames are titanium with a gold plating. Seems to be very
durable. I have some scratching where they have been knocked around by
students while playing sports but no wearing away of material. The gold
plating would make an interesting OM4Ti/Au
Gregg
DaEyeGuy@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Skip.
> I was a manufacturer's sales rep for ten years for the first eyeglass frame
> company to manufacture frames from Ti (Charmant Eyewear). Initially we would
> market them plain (kinda ugly blah midtone grey matte..not exciting..and very
> expensive..think my first model in ~1984 was $400 or so..plain square style
> for men only). As the cost of raw goods became more reasonable we started
> painting them, etc to make them prettier. Paint scratched off in no time,
> cloisonne would pop out a matter of weeks. Eventually we had to go to ion
> plating as that was the only finish that would actually imbed into the
> surface and have staying power. The last time I was in Japan and walking
> around one of our 5 factories (I htink it was in 1993), I was struck by two
> things..thousands of boxes for Waterman pens (we had the contract to
> manufacture them at that time), and the second interesting sight was....
> Olympus boxes stacked up to the ceiling in one department. It was an
> eye-popping sight! When I enquired, I was openly told about the Waterman
> contract, but was told I "had not seen the OM's". Strange.
> Since then i have always wondered if perhaps they used ion-plating on the
> tops & bottoms of the 4T. It is fairly durable considering that it is a Ti
> base.
> Susan
>
> Susan Steele
> Amherst, VA
>
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