Nah, monopolies like Luxottica can suck shit (although there are plenty of brands not owned by them that you can just as easily buy). Doesn’t change that 3D-printed anything is made of cheap, relatively brittle material compared to easily affordable monel, titanium, and other metal frames. I can’t speak to the durability of plastics manufacturers use versus what you would use DIY, but the metals have to be much more durable, and they consistently look much nicer than the 3D-printed ones I’m seeing online. Also, unless OP’s are somehow way above the ones I’m seeing online in terms of quality, they’re probably more comfortable as well; you can cope all you want that you painstakingly designed it to the contours of your face as much as I can cope that the t-shirt I weaved out of corn husks is better than that mass-produced crap because I tailored it to the contours of my torso.
It’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but this seems like one of the last ways I would try to cut corners financially.
Nah, monopolies like Luxottica can suck shit (although there are plenty of brands not owned by them that you can just as easily buy). Doesn’t change that 3D-printed anything is made of cheap, relatively brittle material compared to easily affordable monel, titanium, and other metal frames. I can’t speak to the durability of plastics manufacturers use versus what you would use DIY, but the metals have to be much more durable, and they consistently look much nicer than the 3D-printed ones I’m seeing online. Also, unless OP’s are somehow way above the ones I’m seeing online in terms of quality, they’re probably more comfortable as well; you can cope all you want that you painstakingly designed it to the contours of your face as much as I can cope that the t-shirt I weaved out of corn husks is better than that mass-produced crap because I tailored it to the contours of my torso.
It’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but this seems like one of the last ways I would try to cut corners financially.