Fine detail work and eyes

[Haynie]

I have been doing a lot of fine (tiny) detail work and reading small print pretty regularly and it seems my eyes are pooping out quick. As a geezer 42 year old I am wondering if this is age or the tiny things I have been focusing on.

Time to get a magnifier and visit the docs. Anyone have a magnifier they recommend? I like the visor types more than the ones you hook to your desk.

 

[InvisibleMan]

I have been doing a lot of fine (tiny) detail work and reading small print pretty regularly and it seems my eyes are pooping out quick. As a geezer 42 year old I am wondering if this is age or the tiny things I have been focusing on.

Time to get a magnifier and visit the docs. Anyone have a magnifier they recommend? I like the visor types more than the ones you hook to your desk.

I'm basically your age, and same thing is happening. It's age:frown:

I had laser surgery quite a few years ago. The doc told my this would happen in my 40's. The lens loses flexibility or some such...

 

[Haynie]

This sucks the big muchie wahwah! Wonder if I can afford lasic?

So even with laser surgery the close up goes away.

 

[InvisibleMan]

This sucks the big muchie wahwah! Wonder if I can afford lasic?

So even with laser surgery the close up goes away.

Yep, although I had the surgery back in the dark ages - probably almost 15 years ago. In fact, lasik was in testing at that time and I had PRK.

I think now they can fix close up vision as well, but not really sure.

 

[jd99]

It's an age thing, the cornia (?) of your eyes changes around 40, it happens to most of the population, so your not alone.

At 60 I just do everything by feel now....... :wink: Just kidding.

I'm thought about Laser, but I'm cheap, I think I'll save the money for something else, (Another Lathe)

 

[InvisibleMan]

That laser is the best money I've ever spent. Still 20/15 after all these years. I'm sure I've paid for it several times over by now. Plus, no sand in my contacts when I go to the beach, no packing solution with me when I travel, no hunting for glasses in the middle of the night so I can see the clock, etc.......

Plus, I had an astigmatism that was corrected by the laser. I was amazed at how bad my eyes were even with corrective lenses. Seeing individual leaves on a tree from a distance was so cool!

 

[jeff]

I use these visors.

I also have one of these on my bench.

 

[randywa]

Odd that you posted this now. I went to take a carving class last week and found out I was too blind for it. I had my first real eye exam in 36 years. Also went back Saturday and picked up my bifocals. I skipped right over the trainer pair of glasses. I don't think I'll run the saw until my arms are the right length again. Everything is too close or too far away now.

 

[BSea]

Definitely an age thing. I had perfect vision till about 45. And from what 2 different eye doctors have told me, I'm not a candidate for laser surgery. And I also called a few laser specialist, and they said the same thing. So it's something AI guess I'll just live with.

Don't worry Randywa you'll be fine in a few more days.

 

[Padre]

42 old geezer? Since when? I thought it was at least 80?:wink:

 

[mredburn]

Now you will have to learn to drive by the Braille method.

 

[Haynie]

My wife thinks I already do that. Little does she know I venture to the warning bumps on the side of road on purpose.

 

[frank123]

FWIW, Woodcraft sells a bifocal safety goggle (in reading glass powers).

Something a machinist friend tipped me off to (and he has had Laser correction to his eyes), and that I've found very worthwhile for both metal and wood lathe work.

 

[Haynie]

Anyone use a binocular loupe?

I will look into the bifocal thing. Thanks.

 

[Lenny]

I use these visors.



I also have one of these on my bench.

I know it says it can be worn over glasses ... Jeff, do you use them that way and find they fit ok? I don't want to scratch my prescription glasses!

My eyesight started going bad at 42 but it took me another 10+ years to admit it! I got by with reading glasses for quite a while. Now that I have prescription glasses, I wish I had gotten them years ago!

Both of these have been on my "want list".... Thanks for the links!

 

[mredburn]

Lenny they will work fine I have 3 pair of them in different strengths. THey wont damage your glasses at all. I have been using them for years and I have worn glasses since I was 8

 

[chriselle]

Yep..haha......I'm 45 and have been doing the small print focus dance for a few years now. I have terrible distance vision and have worn contacts all my life. Thinking about laser surgery but I, too......have been "eyeing" a new metal lathe..:biggrin:

 

[ren-lathe]

Yeah getting old aint for the faint of heart. I had cataracts removed about 5 years ago. The doctor said I probably would not need glasses except for reading & using the computer & he was right. In fact when he did the eye test afterward he told me to just go & buy "cheaters" at the drug store. The safety glasses with the bi-focal are perfect. If I look through the the reading glasses for ant thing beyond arms length it is blurred, when you work on the lathe you are looking down so your work is in focus but when you look for something the bi-focal is not in the way.

 

[jeff]

I use these visors.



I also have one of these on my bench.

I know it says it can be worn over glasses ... Jeff, do you use them that way and find they fit ok? I don't want to scratch my prescription glasses!

My eyesight started going bad at 42 but it took me another 10+ years to admit it! I got by with reading glasses for quite a while. Now that I have prescription glasses, I wish I had gotten them years ago!

Both of these have been on my "want list".... Thanks for the links!

Lenny, I don't wear prescription glasses, but I have worn the visor over close-fitting safety glasses, and I see guys at work wearing the visors over prescription glasses.

 

[jcm71]

My eyes went literally on my 40th birthday. One day I could see no problem what was happening on the far end of the flight deck (I was the Safety Officer on the TR; you know, the guy everyone loves to hate). Next day, my birthday, everything was blurry. Now at 62, my eyes are correctable only to 20/25. I'm grateful it is not worse.

 

[Richard Gibson]

Anyone use a binocular loupe?

I will look into the bifocal thing. Thanks.

I bought a cheap Chinese set on Slezbay. They work just fine for what I wanted to do. Your focus is about 16-18" away instead of 6-8" as with the visor type. And $35 was better than $1500 that dentist pay for the high quality ones on the medical sites.

 

[JeffT]

Can you say presbyopia?... Same here... just after 40.

 

[OLDMAN5050]

old

Try adding another 22 years to that and see then what you have to do on a day to day basis

 

[InvisibleMan]

just got a phone call. My first pair of reading glasses is in

:frown: and sorta , but also :biggrin:.

I don't really need them to read, but in the poor garage lighting, they should help with detail work on pens.