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Prescription Polarised Glasses - Reglaze - Maui Jim

Neil Kirk

Senior Member
I have decided to get some Maui Jim frames reglazed with polarized prescription lenses.

I have no idea what the price of Maui Jim prescription lenses is and I'm not ruling out other/cheaper options.

Haven't found any High Street opticians who will/can do it - the wrap around Local Kine frames being too challenging for some.

Before I proceed into online options I thought I might as well put the query on here- always impressed by the knowledge on BFW.

Neil
 
Hi Neil, I recently had prescription purple amythist rectolites in my Oakley Juliet x metals.
Done by Reglaze Glasses Direct.
They gave a great library of options.
Jim
 
I have decided to get some Maui Jim frames reglazed with polarized prescription lenses.

I have no idea what the price of Maui Jim prescription lenses is and I'm not ruling out other/cheaper options.

Haven't found any High Street opticians who will/can do it - the wrap around Local Kine frames being too challenging for some.

Before I proceed into online options I thought I might as well put the query on here- always impressed by the knowledge on BFW.

Neil
Have a word with Chris Cheshire.
Sorted out prescription Polaroid auto dim vari focus glasses for me. Very happy.
 
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I have decided to get some Maui Jim frames reglazed with polarized prescription lenses.

I have no idea what the price of Maui Jim prescription lenses is and I'm not ruling out other/cheaper options.

Haven't found any High Street opticians who will/can do it - the wrap around Local Kine frames being too challenging for some.

Before I proceed into online options I thought I might as well put the query on here- always impressed by the knowledge on BFW.

Neil
Maui Jim prescription lenses will be the wrong side of £400 retail. Especially if you have ‘readers’ fitted for knot tying.

But in my opinion they are the best.

Here is a salutary tale of thriftiness gone bad….I had some MJ prescription lenses and they were great. But my eyes deteriorated further a couple of years ago - so I needed a new set. The quote from my local optician (Holmes in Cirencester) was eye watering, so I asked about alternatives.

I had just had a set of regular glasses made with Zeiss varifocal lenses and they were/are still fantastic. The optician recommended Zeiss prescription Polaroids as the next best alternative AND they had an offer on as I had just bought the standard lenses. So we used my new prescription to design a set of Polaroids with readers at the bottom for hook tying…..They come back from the manufacturer and I try them and they are terrible. It seems as if the ‘reader’ bit extends too far up the lens and much of the time everything at distance is out of focus. So I take them back and the optician agrees to get a new pair made FOC. They are better, but not great - which is mad for expensive glasses. Ihave taken to using Fortis £40 over-glasses in preference ! The Zeiss lenses only get used occasionally.

This week I went fly fishing and ended up dry fly fishing which involved spotting very faint signs of trout surface feeding and then working out which way the fish was moving to facilitate a cast onto its nose…..I started with my normal (non-Polaroid) glasses as it was cloudy and all was fine….Then the sun came out I switched to the polaroids and it was as if the trout had stopped rising. I simply could not see the small rise forms and if a fish rose properly I couldn’t see which way it was swimming…..Needless to say I will be going back to the optician this week with more evidence of how rubbish their sunnies are. Whether they will take me seriously remains to be seen !
 
I had a pair of Maui Jim’s made a couple of years ago, the idea was they had to be wrap round, varifocal and polarised.. I am not sure if anybody else does them now, but at the time I was told the lenses had to be made by Maui Jim..I am sure they said that they weren’t normal polorised… but were Maui Jim’s version, which is supposed to be better. Sadly to say they were not cheap… but are really good, I also have Ray Ban vari focal that are polorised which are also good…. But the Maui Jim’s have got the definite edge. Oh yeah I opted for the light brown tint as most of my fishing is in low light conditions.
 
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