How To Edge and Finish Lenses In Office - An Introduction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- This is your introduction to in-office finishing. John walks you through finishing a simple single-vision job from the job tray to final inspection, edging the job on a Santinelli LE 700.
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Known as finishing, edging, or glazing, follow John as he takes a simple single-vision job from the job tray to final inspection, including, gathering the necessary materials, lens selection, tracing the frame, dotting the lenses on the lensmeter, blocking the lenses, edging the lenses with a Santinelli LE 700, block removal, lens insertion, and lastly, final inspection.
What is the one thing no online retailer can do? Well, there are many, but a big one is give a customer a pair of glasses right now! Being able to offer the services an edger allows you to offer is more important than ever. Providing your customers with product now, whether it’s a simple single vision job or when someone needs an emergency pair, is something your customers will remember.
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Thank you for making these educational videos. Keep up the awesome job!
Thanks so much, William! Will do.
Hi Laramy, aprecio tus ensenanzas...
Thank you. You are very helpful to students like me❤
Thankyou. I enjoyed while learning. Please keep making videos which teaches opticians a lot
Thanks for watching!
In the 70s: After marking out, I used to cut the lenses using a "former" on an "edging machine".All done by hand. Worked for us....
When I was young I had to -------
Great video! Really curious about the process for axis for astigmatism though
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@LaramyKOptical Hey, thanks for the reply! I'm not sure if it's intended, but that link only leads to all the videos- section of your channel! But I take that you've possibly uploaded a video about it, I'll go ahead and take a look later! Thanks
@@patricko911 The relationship of axis and power isn't a one-step kind of thing. Hit the OLDEST button and work from there.
Hello Laramie, I also work with edgers in an optical laboratory, I worked with the 7 E and 7EX, from optronics and the MEI, very good lens edgers too...Oh I like the end of your video, I didn't know that you dance so good...
MEI makes some great stuff! I think the future is robotics like their's over wheel based.
The deblocking pliers you're using is made for twisting off the lens not pulling off to prevent lens crazing. Really nice edger though.
I like to spot and then mark the topside of the lens, if it is spotted for prism or has any other specific reason. This way if another person takes over for some reason, they know just how I left off with those lenses.
enjoying these vidoes
Thanks Wynton! Thanks for watching.
So jealous of that edging machine. We've got an old patternless model that looks ancient in comparison.
I gave that a "thumbs up" maybe it should be a "thumbs down" ???? I guess you can look on the bright side, at least it's not a pattern edger! Hope you get a new one for Christmas! John
I would like to see you review the Briot Emotion 2 or the Weco E-3 using Gravitech all in one systems
I doubt that will happen. 1) I don't hide my preference for the Nidek/Santinelli edgers. 2) I don't actually have enough edging work to perform real testing. An edger is like a marriage. You won't know how things really are until you are a few years into the relationship. I've lost track but several of the edgers (Briot Weco maybe?) are the same just branded under different licenses. If you are seriously considering any model make them come and put on a show for you - push things and see how it does. John
Awesome amazing like always
I loved your every single videos
But can u put the manual edger machine to make edge or vivel of a lens plzz
Nazim, I have a video on the website on the handstone. I'll get around to reshooting it for TH-cam someday... It really all comes down to practice and KEEP THE LENS MOVING! John
Where do you order new tools for your edger? Do you need to get them from the edger manufacturer or is there another company that sells them with the form already dressed in? Thanks!
Best to get them from the manufacturer. So many different types and brands and years and models... They would also know if the wheel needs to be dressed before use. Excellent question by the way! I wouldn't be surprised if they are factory coated to reduce tarnish/rust and might need to be cleaned up first. I only did a wheel swap once on a Santinelli - it wasn't hard to do. John
Hello, I have high index lenses with 1.74 thinning and -13 prescription in the right lens. I find with my optician, when the lenses are placed into a plastic frame, the frame itself appears to be scuffed around the bridge of the nose and outer edges. I assume this is from some degree of finishing, almost as if the lens has been in the frame and then edged. I have to complain and then have the frame replaced, however I was wondering if you could provide some insight into what may be causing this scuffing to frames? Thank you in advance.
Just a hunch but - 13.00 is quite high. That is going to leave behind a very thick edge which then has to be pressed by force alone into the plastic eyewire from the front of the frame. I'm sure that between heating/softening the frame and the thick edge it is catching in that area and causing the marks. It could be avoided with a heavy safety bevel, perhaps a light polish and some careful lens insertion, ( a step bevel if the edger can handle it). BUT - BUT, you are also extremely near sighted so you may well notice minute damage that others might not. But IMO no permanent scuff marks (damage) on a new frame is not really OK. John
@@LaramyKOptical Thank you for the quick and detailed reply John, I really appreciate it!
Hello Laramy, I got a few questions on your santinelli LE700
1.- how long does it take to edge a single lens?
2.-How reliable is the edging system (how many jobs you have to manually edge after the machine didn't do it accurately) since it's an entry model
Sergio, I can answer 1 of the 2 --- Depending on material any edger that uses wheels will take anywhere from 2 minutes to 7 minutes per lens. You have bevel, groove, flat, polish, safety bevel, slow grind - so many variables you can't put a single time on it. I can't say how the 700 performs over time, I only had that here in the studio for a few months. Where I worked we had back-to-back Santinellis running about 15 jobs a day every day and they were super accurate and super reliable too. Check with them - they JUST released a new model like last week! John
Does the machine measure the curve of the lens so the bevel can follow the curve? Or does the bevel just go straight across?
A high-end edger will do just that, yes. Many have additional features that allow you to further tweak it. The most modern robotic (MEI) can actually let you "tug" the bevel in place along the entire circumference! The reverse is true also a very inexpensive low end edger will cut pretty close to a neutral single axis bevel. John
@@LaramyKOptical what about low end pattern edges that place the bevel in a single plane. Would the acetate frames tolerate this? Or would the lens end up flattening out the frame.
@@MA-wy7cr It's anything can happen day! A warm soft acetate might conform to the flat bevel. A cold rigid one may have lens pop somewhere. Of course it depends on the frame curve - lens curve match to begin with. Sadly no way to predict any outcomes there.
Hi Wynton congrats you're making very nice video keep it up , Sandeep Luthra from India , are you running optical store ,?
Greetings from London, England. What’s the smallest thickness of mineral glass that can be used on this machine? I cut mineral glass by hand, thickness between 0.7mm-1.4mm with varying different curves, could this machine help me?
Thanks mate
Michael, Drop me an email through the OpticianWorks website so I can connect you with the right people. I know they run watch crystals on some of these machines so I'd guess pretty darned thin. John
Hi i want to ask, at what mode do you (process) polish1.6 tribrid lens. Thanks :)
That would all depend on which edger you have. You would need to get in contact with the company and ask. Different manufacturers call materials different things. Different edgers use different settings. If I had to guess I'd do a 1.6 set on hi-index. If you have no way of knowing for sure I'd experiment with a few cheap as you can find SV lenses. [Don't test on a $150 wholesale progressive] And/or be sure you are standing by to hit the STOP button if things don't look or sound right. Keeping in mind that Trivex will actually smoke when being roughed.
@@LaramyKOptical next time i'll try on hi-index, because in trivex mode it looks like there is too little time to polish properly when water starts to flow (nidek Lex 1000 edger). Thx for help :)
@@MindaugasJocionis tribird is a compound material (2 different material in one blank)...the best way is use milling edger but...only some Labs have it. The best mode on common edger usually is the hi index setting mode...like you edge 1.66 lens
@@saeco88 thanks for help, yes i already tried on hi index mode, everything went perfectly.
@@MindaugasJocionis good 😊
/Really enjoy your videos. I've learned a lot. How about you do a video on how to make the glasses look the best you can? Which lens substrate to use, which has the best optics, how to roll edges, how to polish the edge of a lens....those kinds of things.
Power and Lens Materials is actually in the works now. Hope to wrap it up and get it out late spring. Roll isn't really much of a thing anymore. I do cover polish on the website.
How much is the machine now sir
Bevel disk is also finishis disk in this machine?
I think the answer would be yes. Roughing and then then finishing wheel that has the groove for placing or cutting the bevel. The polish wheel is the lighter colored one. John
@@LaramyKOptical thanks
U r the best
LOL why is it then that I cant cold insert half of these Rx's? Uncalibrated tracer?
Could be that. Could be technique. Could be you need thumb workouts. Some materials are easier than others.
whats the name of the edging machine??????
Santinelli LE 700
jesus look at this edger i am soo sososos jealous
Wait till you try the newest LEXCE! ;-)
and here i am hand beveling Calcium Flouride like some kind of peasant
hi
Hello - Just spent 10 days in the Heber City area. Mostly play but did manage Mount Agassis.
I'm sorry to be negative, but I have such a hard time watching your videos. You talk too much, give too much opinion, and completely stop the flow of the information. Be clear what your video is about, and follow it!!! This isn't the time to put in your personal crap!
Thanks for the feedback. But, the numbers and other feedback we receive, tell a much different story. Of course, we can't make everyone happy, but I think we'll stick to how we're doing it for now. Cheers! :)
Thank you. You are very helpful to students like me❤