The heavy snow we had in Indiana a week ago led me to pick up one of the projects I had stopped working on last year. Below are pictures of the snow goggles I made. They are the primitive version of sunglasses. These work by restricting the amount of sunlight that hits your eye. The slits block light reflecting off snow on the ground and clouds above. In the bottom picture you can kind of see how far my eyes are set back from the slits when wearing these.
The wood is cedar and they are very light weight. I tried them out when the sun was shining and with them on I was able to stop squinting. These are more of a long-term set. In a short term situation you could just use a strip of bark with holes poked in it.
Below are traditional Inuit snow goggles made from caribou antler. You can see that the slits are infinitesimally smaller than mine. I bet mine are lighter weight though.
Picture taken from the snow blindness entry at Wikipedia.org.
5 comments:
Excellent!
I have made two pairs of such ones before and I am in fact making a new pair now.
From the two ones I made (both wood) my experience is that for maximum reflection aid, make them fit your face perfectly. If you struggle with that (because of a pointy face like I have) add some leather on the sides. Also, coat the inside with charcoal. That will dampen the reflection a lot.
I did take away too much from the area that fits under the eyes. Some light leaks in there. Other than that my main concern is the size of the slits. You can see that I messed one of them pretty bad.
Thanks for the tips, especially the charcoal idea.
I like the horn one because it looks like something Jordi off of Star Trek would wear.
turbosweet.
Them goggles are cool. Here's a link for some made of antlers:
http://www.alaskaantlerworks.com/antler_carving_furniture.htm
sweet.
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Nice job - I've also made some Snow Goggles. You can see them on the bottom of my blog at thewoodwright.blogspot.com
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