Bad Ass Optical Lab

09/17/2026

09/10/2026

If you found a vintage Oliver People's OP-27, originally made in vibrant Tokyo tortoise, covered in dirt in an old box, and could remove all the scratches and replace the glass lenses with new vintage green glass, why wouldn't you? You wouldn't if you were crazy. The class is this weekend. You'll receive all the necessary stuff, including polishes, abrasives, and a motor. Sign up in the comments; there's still some room.

08/31/2026

Scott will be teaching his frame polishing course in Dallas this year at SIOS. You will be provided all the polishes, abrasives, and polishing motor to bring an old frame back to brand new, or just spruce up some tired inventory. Link is in the comments.

07/02/2025

It's summertime, why ruin it with G15 and Grey 3?

02/29/2024

Tint w/AR? No problem.

01/19/2024

Bad Ass fade

01/18/2024

11/21/2023

"Please match 70's green fade." The tint thing was OK, I just get excited when these don't break.

09/11/2023

The headlines recently had a quote from the CEO of a major media company to the effect of "Media is at peak disruption." It was in reference to traditional media being disrupted by social media and even more so by podcasts. Just 30% of Americans now get their news from traditional sources and most of those are over 65.

In the optical business there are several regular podcasts, and the content is often OK to not relevant. Usually these podcasts lack depth and breadth or are just boring.

The one podcast that has depth and by far the widest breadth of interviews and topics is Daniel Feldman's Optical Journal podcast. Although I was a guest several times in the early days, this is not a paid endorsement. I'm simply telling you, if you aren't checking into what's being discussed every week, you aren't current on the happenings and personalities in the industry.

The Optical Journal shares the passion of the world’s most distinctive eye care professionals through stories that educate and inspire ECPs to succeed