Jacques Marie Mage - Wolves, Obnoxious Acetate and The American Dream

[qubed]

Oh yeah? What’s the chemistry behind that?
Shell on or shell off?
Hard boiled or soft boiled?😁

Sulfur (i.e. the smell in rotten egg smell). Tarnish is Silver Sulfide.

As long as it's not runny. Cut the egg in half. Eat half of it. Put the other half in a bag with the silver. Check it out every 10-15 minutes until you get your desired tarnishing level.

 

[Thin White Duke]

Sulfur (i.e. the smell in rotten egg smell). Tarnish is Silver Sulfide.

As long as it's not runny. Cut the egg in half. Eat half of it. Put the other half in a bag with the silver. Check it out every 10-15 minutes until you get your desired oxidation level.

This sounds just crazy enough to give it a try!

 

[qubed]

This sounds just crazy enough to give it a try!

Just found this, and it has pictures: https://www.canada.ca/en/conservati...n-workshops/understanding-silver-tarnish.html

 

[Thin White Duke]

Went to Fuse today. Got purple flash lenses for $45 installed in my Ashcrofts on the spot. Hard to capture the colour accurately with my iPhone. They’re really not orange! See full pic below for better colour accuracy!

I learned today that I really liked the ‘flat looking’ original lens. Fella at Fuse pulled out a measuring device like a stopwatch with three prongs and said they are ‘2 base’ which means almost flat and of course somewhat rare. My replacement lenses aren’t 2 base, I think they’re 4 but the base measurement is the amount of curve. Didn’t know that. Anyway the lenses popped out easily so I can easily change back again if I wish despite the chunky acetate.

They have a really tasty ‘arctic blue’ lens on sale too, which I think is the colour I put in my New Wayfarer beach glasses a few years ago when I first found Fuse. I reckon they’d look great in the Ashcrofts too and may get a pair one day but I already have several blue options (midnight flash in my Rawlins, blue lenses in my Oliver Peoples Cabrillo clear acetates, JMM Herbie in cobalt, blue lenses in rimless Tag Heuer X 2, blue lens ray ban aviators with bronze frames, blue lens in Roka Rio-Ti aviators, blue frame Wayfarers, blue rubber New Wayfarers with aforementioned blue flash lenses, etc) and I love the shape of these Ashcrofts so much if I put blue lenses in they might eclipse most / all of the above.

Anyway I really love the angular but short shapes of these. Like I said yesterday they are like a shorter Fellini but without the ‘Ace Rothstein’ effect which is causing me to take a while to warm up to my Fellinis. I hope this style becomes a mainstay in the JMM stable with more exciting offerings in the future. If they made this in cobalt or Marlboro or something similar I might just reach JMM Nirvana!😁 Field tested them today and they did well on the drive down with original lenses and the return with the purple flash. Slightly tight in the temple after a few hours wear so may get burst with the hairdryer for a tweak.

 

[verver]

Why r u guys putting Oakley looking lenses in jmm’s. Such dissonance is hurting my brain

 

[FlyingHorker]

@Thin White Duke Would love to see you try larger frames as sunglasses like an Enzo.

The Ashcrofts up there as sunglasses look very 'normal' to me and kinda generic on you.

Our domes are similiarly shaped and sized, and I wear the Fellinis as opticals, I've posted them before ITT.

None of these are anywhere near Ace Rothstein glasses

 

[Thin White Duke]

Why r u guys putting Oakley looking lenses in jmm’s. Such dissonance is hurting my brain

You don’t like mine?
I posted them with the original lenses in a few posts up and I thought THAT looked generic! The grey gradient was kinda cool and I’m not throwing them out but grey frames with grey lenses looked a bit generic to me so I wanted to spruce up the look a bit.

 

[Thin White Duke]

@Thin White Duke Would love to see you try larger frames as sunglasses like an Enzo.

The Ashcrofts up there as sunglasses look very 'normal' to me and kinda generic on you.

Our domes are similiarly shaped and sized, and I wear the Fellinis as opticals, I've posted them before ITT.

None of these are anywhere near Ace Rothstein glasses

Well I was just joshing with the AR comment but I appreciate your input. I think you may have said this before, but for me there’s a bit of a threshold and I’m not that comfortable with the bigger heavier looking frames. I think the ashcrofts are rescued from being ‘generic’ by the inward outer lines and the very sharp angles.

 

[FlyingHorker]

Well I was just joshing with the AR comment but I appreciate your input. I think you may have said this before, but for me there’s a bit of a threshold and I’m not that comfortable with the bigger heavier looking frames. I think the ashcrofts are rescued from being ‘generic’ by the inward outer lines and the very sharp angles.

Might have said it before, my memory ain't the greatest. Your own comfort matters most.

Yeah all good man, I get it.

I was infatuated with the Belize initially and going full oversized for opticals. Looking back though: they looked like giant ski goggles and gave me a bug eye look and pinched my nose heavily.

 

[Thin White Duke]

Might have said it before, my memory ain't the greatest. Your own comfort matters most.

Yeah all good man, I get it.

I was infatuated with the Belize initially and going full oversized for opticals. Looking back though: they looked like giant ski goggles and gave me a bug eye look and pinched my nose heavily.

👍

Slight sidetrack regarding Ace Rothstein. In the film he had a unique dress sense. Very flashy bright coloured jackets often with matching shirt and tie combos, and of course the giant geggs. I was a kid in the seventies coming up in a grimy blue collar industrial city in northern England - not exactly the fashion centre of the universe, but I never saw anyone dressed like that even on TV and don’t remember that type of hyooge glasses either. It’s a fictional character based on a bloke named Lefty Rosenthal. I wonder if HE dressed like that IRL, or if it was just a device of the costume department to make the character stand out apart from the more drably dressed gangsters, as he wasn’t strictly in the mob.

 

[oudwood]

Is anyone able to ID these glasses on Ryan Reynolds? I'm pretty new to JMM, but recognized the temples. If I had to take a guess, it looks like they are Juliens, Beluga perhaps?

 

[Facultyofzen]

Is anyone able to ID these glasses on Ryan Reynolds? I'm pretty new to JMM, but recognized the temples. If I had to take a guess, it looks like they are Juliens, Beluga perhaps?


View attachment 2014021

Julien is correct.

 

[DorianGreen]

Went to Fuse today. Got purple flash lenses for $45 installed in my Ashcrofts on the spot. Hard to capture the colour accurately with my iPhone. They’re really not orange! See full pic below for better colour accuracy!

View attachment 2013767

I learned today that I really liked the ‘flat looking’ original lens. Fella at Fuse pulled out a measuring device like a stopwatch with three prongs and said they are ‘2 base’ which means almost flat and of course somewhat rare. My replacement lenses aren’t 2 base, I think they’re 4 but the base measurement is the amount of curve. Didn’t know that. Anyway the lenses popped out easily so I can easily change back again if I wish despite the chunky acetate.

They have a really tasty ‘arctic blue’ lens on sale too, which I think is the colour I put in my New Wayfarer beach glasses a few years ago when I first found Fuse. I reckon they’d look great in the Ashcrofts too and may get a pair one day but I already have several blue options (midnight flash in my Rawlins, blue lenses in my Oliver Peoples Cabrillo clear acetates, JMM Herbie in cobalt, blue lenses in rimless Tag Heuer X 2, blue lens ray ban aviators with bronze frames, blue lens in Roka Rio-Ti aviators, blue frame Wayfarers, blue rubber New Wayfarers with aforementioned blue flash lenses, etc) and I love the shape of these Ashcrofts so much if I put blue lenses in they might eclipse most / all of the above. View attachment 2013769

Anyway I really love the angular but short shapes of these. Like I said yesterday they are like a shorter Fellini but without the ‘Ace Rothstein’ effect which is causing me to take a while to warm up to my Fellinis. I hope this style becomes a mainstay in the JMM stable with more exciting offerings in the future. If they made this in cobalt or Marlboro or something similar I might just reach JMM Nirvana!😁 Field tested them today and they did well on the drive down with original lenses and the return with the purple flash. Slightly tight in the temple after a few hours wear so may get burst with the hairdryer for a tweak.

I agree with @verver, those lenses are too flashy for my taste, don't suit the subtle character of the frame. The stock lenses look way better to me.

 

[D32169]

Why r u guys putting Oakley looking lenses in jmm’s. Such dissonance is hurting my brain

In general I agree but each frame projects a certain look on the wearer. Sometimes that requires an unusual lens. These Vendome/ Rovers were big, green and chunky on me. I chose the flash lenses to compensate.

 

[MickeyPunch]

Vendomes are big? I was hoping they’d be small (by JMM standards), I have a pair on tge way. Are they bigger than Fellinis or Dealans?