The Beginning

To begin with, measurements from devices like Optikam allow us to measure and lay out your lenses incredibly accurately – to a tenth of a millimeter.  In the lab, we have a machine called a lensometer that measures prescriptions.  We determine the exact center of your personal, prescription lenses and add markings that help us align them to the frame you purchased or dropped off.  We have an electronic lensometer that sits on a shelf – our workhorse is the B&L Model 70 Vertometer.  This lensometer is built like a tank, is consistently precise and accurate, and allows us to see your prescription clearly with our naked eyes!  

The Next Step

At this point, we are either tracing the exact shape of your frame or the lenses that came with it to determine a great many important things about your glasses.  Our machine makes a pattern of your lenses and at this point we start to lay out where your prescription fits on your lenses.  Once we have everything aligned to our satisfaction, we apply some safety tape and attach blocks to your prescription lenses. This is so they will fit inside the “edger” and stay aligned the way we want.

Putting It All Together

The edger is a Satinelli LEX-1200 – the most advanced edger available! 

Perfection at every curve.  Today’s lenses and frames have a wide range of shapes and curves.  The LEX-1200 is equipped with a multiple frame tracer that accurately reads any shape at every curve. Versatile edging options are offered via unique specialty-shaped wheels and newly designed software.

This amazing piece of equipment gives us complete control over what your prescription looks and feels like in your frames.  You can get glasses anywhere. However when you get your glasses from COVE, you know that you have a pair of precision, hand-finished glasses that are worlds different from what you’re used to getting. Come see us. You’ll see better.