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From the Halifax Sunday News

Halifax Sunday Daily News May 5, 2002
ShortCuts© Column 361

"20/20 Vision "

Reprinted with permission from Graham McCulloch. Shortcuts.
Copywright 2001. All Rights Reserved

20/20 Vision

We just got such an innovative shop accessory that it took only about a minute to test. From the people at Wizard (remember those woodworking metal detectors) in California. In fact, when the people at Wizard sent me the press release I couldn’t wait to call them and ask for samples.

My eyes are as old as I am and like me, don’t quite have the strength that they used to. I use reading glasses because my arms are not quite long enough and printers continue to print things in ever decreasing font sizes. This is bad enough when reading things like tool manuals but it gets even worse when I try to read those small lines on a tape measure.

The problem compounds itself when I am in my shop and I have to keep my reading glasses on and then put a pair of safety glasses on top of them. I have not yet found a pair of safety glasses that will comfortably fit on top of them. A quandary, right?

Ta Daaa!  Wizard has come out with (are you ready for this?) bi-focal safety glasses that they call ShopSpecs. These are made from a polycarbonate and more like goggles than glasses. The stem length is adjustable and they wrap around to give some protection to the temples.

The Bi-focal Safety Glasses from Wizard are available in 100 dioptres (magnifying strength), 150, 200, 250 and 300 strengths and that just about covers most of us weak-eyed (read older or more mature) woodworkers. Whoever said that there are no new inventions worth making could not read the fine print. Now, they can.

Once again Wizard earns a full

 

Wizard Distribution is at 15500 Erwin Street, Ste 1049, Van Nuys, CA 91411.

You can get more information at www.wizarddistribution.com. ~Graham McCulloch is a Woodworker and writer and lives in Halifax.