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Process Shots of Making Enlite's Wooden Eyewear Frames
All you need is a five-axis CNC mill, courtesy of Kkervvit
Greek eyewear brand Enlite makes these Supernatural eyeglasses and sunglasses out of wood:
Specifically, they're made from multiple layers of Cherry veneer, with a polymer finish applied for durability.
To produce the frames, Enlite turned to Athens-based CNC fabrication firm Kkervvit. On the latter's website, we found these process shots of the frames being cut by their five-axis CNC, which were fun to look at. The frames are actually cut from both sides, requiring flipping the workpiece and moving it from a convex to a concave jig halfway through. It's not visually clear how they do the indexing, so if any of you know, please comment:
Prices for the Supernatural line run €270 to €350 (USD $293 to $380).
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Looks like there are datum pin holes on the top, middle, and bottom used for indexing. Would be curious to see how they get from the machined blank to the finished product. There’s a lot of tooling marks and burrs to clean up.