Snooker Nose Bridge?

[Acrowot]

Big meek

I would like to say that my snooker glasses never give any distortion and the company that make them do specialise in making them and the lenses for snooker.
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[philip in china]

Contact lenses

Having read this thread I dug out my old contact lenses which I hadn't used for years.

I wore them for a couple of frames. At first I wasn't even hitting the object ball but as I got more accustomed to them I did improve. I am still awful but I think over time things will improve.

[cally]

Having read this thread I dug out my old contact lenses which I hadn't used for years.

Surely if you 'dug out' the lenses after a 'few' years of not wearing them, you should surely have your eyes re-tested and maybe get new lenses eh??


Not an expert on contact lenses or nowt but surely they don't last years, do they?...:snooker:

[Acrowot]

Must be miracle lenses. lol.

There are a couple of blokes that play where I do and they using same snooker glasses they had made 14 years ago. When I asked where they got them made, they told me cannot remember where they got them from, as it was long before they came here to live.

In the end, went to the opticians I normally use and had some made, which have turned out to be very good. They did have to send my prescription to the company that actually make them, after they had some frames sent so that I could try them on.
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[fredkite]

When i'd ran out of contact lenses I inserted a little piece of plastic inbetween the two pieces of plastic that keep the glasses on your nose. Worked a treat except for when you weren't at the table, felt a bit sick

[ilm76]

hi

I'm now having to wear glasses which affects my snooker playing.
I've seen these Spoony things and wondered if they were any good or if you have any alternatives?? I don't need to wear glasses all the time so contact lenses are not an option, just for driving and snooker really.

http://shop.strato.de/epages/6117777...776/Categories

thanks

Ian

[Bigmeek]

The ones in your post look a bit cumbersome. I've seen smaller, more compact, ones but haven't tried them. I bought myself a pair of snooker glasses. Bit more expensive than spoonys but a better solution I think. If you use the search thread you'll get quite a few posts regarding snooker glasses.

[magicman]

I played for years knowing my eyesight wasn't exactly good. I hated the idea of having to put in contacts, but eventually grew a set and got some. For a day or so it was strange and took me many minutes to put them in and take them out. After three days I could put them in and take them out in seconds. It made a massive difference to my eyesight and long-shots and safety-shots at snooker became much easier. Not only that but I could see and wear shades when sunny. Contacts were the best thing ever, til I had laser eye surgery! Amazing what growing a set will lead you to!

[chris433]

you used to be able to but the little platic clip that attached to your own specs i have one years ago when the pot black magazine was out got it from there but attaching it to normal glasses did not work right as there was the rim that was always annoying.

I took my prescription to a place here in sheffield that also advertised in pot blank axis specs on carlisle street here in sheffield, as i am shortish sighted there was no problem making them cost me £59 inc lenses and frames i.e the rimless type and i have had them for about 4 years now and it took some getting used to them but now i would not play without them, no distortion from the glasses and for £59 best money i ever spent.

As Axis is a warehouse for specs you just take your prescription into them and they will make them for you, i even took my mother in law there for here normal specs and she saved a fortune over Spec savers prices.

[franksandellsnooker]

spec ups.

To expand on the initial enquiery on this thread whilst if I had the guts I would have had laser surgery years ago I have made use of late with snooker glasses which never feel quite right ( too much reflection etc). However prior to these and back in the 80,s I supplied Spec Ups which were endorsed by Dennis Taylor and also the bowls champion David Bryant. For single lens work the Spec up is very useful for many people, however it had not been produced for many years. That is until Last Year when Gary Norman a fine billiard player and administrator along with an even finer young player Rob Hall began to develop a new version which works very well. Well enough in fact for Rob to have won the amateur circuit rankings and just reached to semi final of the Championship. I believe it is intended to offer them commercialy in the near future. They come in a little bag to fit in your cue case and will sell for about a tenner I think.

[Acrowot]

Think would sooner wear my snooker glasses than the spoony.
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