So it is a common theme that even some of the best labs out their suffer from automated-itis when it comes to lens finishing. The same labs than can do spectacular work on the high end specialty jobs regularly are popping out regular jobs with idiotic bevel placement and lens edges that look like they were edged with a weed wacker.
Usually I don't have to deal with this because I only send out the most difficult specialty work to be done by a lab that I trust and that knows I will complain. Anyway I recently had to have my tracer cleaned and rebuilt, and it took about 4 days longer than I had planned for. I got antsy and sent out a bunch of lenses to be finished at a few different labs.
I was happy with the results for the most part, there were a few really huge lenses in plastic frames that splayed out terribly on a -7.00 (unacceptable).
The point of my thread were the groove jobs - They were all edged about 1mm from the front of the lens with a groove curve the same as the front of the lens. Is this the way you guys groove? I always try to match the groove curve to the frame curve, at least a LITTLE bit. I got 3 jobs in from 2 labs, all were edged with a groove that followed the front of the lens curve and were so pushed forward that it looked really weird to me.
Is this normal to you guys that get lots of jobs finished by other labs? Am I just curving my grooves more than most?
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