Polaraized sun glasses help.

[fightingquaker13]

Well, I just got back from visiting my dad. While I was there, my15 year old and much loved Ocean Waves polarized glasses died in the line of duty. When I bought these thing, they were about $90, which I thought was high, but they were darn good glass and scratch resistant, so I splurged. Now they are are going for $125-$150 and up. Not only no, but hell no, I'm too hard on my fishing gear to spend that kind of scratch on something that can easily go overboard. I mean, I could buy a brick of .22s for that price.   Besides which, I figure that the stuff that was top of the line ten years ago is middle of the road  today and it still works just as well.
 
 
 
So the question to you boys is this. Figuring a price point of say $60 or less (give or take), can any of you reccomend a high quality polarized pair of sunglasses? It doesn't need to make me look sexy (God had his chance at that and failed miserably, so the glasses won't help  ), they just need to reduce glare and help with sight fishing and be durable. I bought a pair of $19 el cheapos and they got scratched up inside of two weeks. That is false economy. Any thoughts?
 
Thanks

[crusader rabbit]

So your "quality" glasses lasted 15 years and now cost around $125. That comes out to around $8.33 per year.

Your cheapo classes cost around $19 and lasted around two weeks.  That's nearly $500 per year to keep replacing them.

False economy, indeed.

Quaker, there hasn't been much in terms of advances in polarization in the past 15 years.  There really haven't been too many advances in scratch resistance, either. Plastic lenses will scratch more easily than glass.  But, glass is going to be heavier than plastic.

If you were truly satisfied with what you had, replace them with another pair of the same.  I mean, come on...  Less than ten bucks a year for good fishing glasses?  It's foolish to try and go "cheap."

Quality glasses are going to cost you at least a c-note and could run up to considerably more rarefied numbers. 

Serengeti specs will sent you back $200 or more--their "Drivers" used to be my personal favorite until I needed huge corrections just to see what planet I was on.

You could check out Oakley Thermonuclear specs--they are pretty good.  Or, you could go with Bausch & Lomb polarized--still popular and high quality.

But, you're probably going to pay at least a buck and a quarter.

Another thought, pay attention to the frames.  Good glass in crap frames is a loser. 

FWIW

Crusader Rabbit

[Timothy]

I'm with the Rabbit!

A bargain is finding something of quality that is at a reduced price.  Buying something substandard ain't no bargain!  I have a pair of Costa Del Mar for about 150 that have lasted me five or six years with a bifocal for tying knots and such.  They're holding up pretty well, better if I'd kept them in the case rather than in the glovebox.

Technically, mine were free because I had over 200 bucks in Bass Pro gift certificates from the kids...in retrospect, I should have stocked up on ammo but I needed the glasses at the time.

[JLawson]

http://www.blublocker.com/collections/polarized-men

[Pathfinder]

I'm with the Rabbit!

A bargain is finding something of quality that is at a reduced price.  Buying something substandard ain't no bargain!  I have a pair of Costa Del Mar for about 150 that have lasted me five or six years with a bifocal for tying knots and such.  They're holding up pretty well, better if I'd kept them in the case rather than in the glovebox.

Technically, mine were free because I had over 200 bucks in Bass Pro gift certificates from the kids...in retrospect, I should have stocked up on ammo but I needed the glasses at the time.

I'm with the others, go with what you know works.

As for stocking up on ammo, apparently I did and did not even realize it. As I'm packing things up for my big move, I keep stumbling across bags of ammo I bought at some point and forgot to put away. Everything, bulk packs of 9mm, .45ACP, Just 2 days ago, I ran across 2 bricks of .22LR I didn't know I had. One had me sitting on the edge of my bed laughing at the sheer lunacy of reaching for a bag in the corner of my closet shelves and finding a brick of Winchester 333's. Embarrassing, but funny!   

And now, back to the thread already in progress . . .

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[Jrlobo]

FQ,

      I wear a pair of prescription glass lenses that are progressive (hate that term). I use them for everything: seeing, driving, reading, fishing and hunting. They are too expensive for me to buy another pair of prescription polarized lenses. I just add one of those loose safety straps to the frames in case they fall off my nose when fishing or hunting and that way I don't lose them or scratch them up. And I don't care much for the clip ons at all as they create ghosts and make the glasses even heavier. Now, when I am shooting at the range, I wear safety goggles to protect the glass lenses, but I am not particularly fond of that.

[tombogan03884]

Do they have "Dollar Store's" in Fl ?
Go there, buy 2 or 3 pair for a buck each, if one pair gets scratched toss them and move on.
I learned my lesson about expensive sunglasses when I had motorcycles and watched the 18 wheeler behind me run over the Ray Bans that had blown off when I looked back.

[fightingquaker13]

Do they have "Dollar Store's" in Fl ?
Go there, buy 2 or 3 pair for a buck each, if one pair gets scratched toss them and move on.
I learned my lesson about expensive sunglasses when I had motorcycles and watched the 18 wheeler behind me run over the Ray Bans that had blown off when I looked back.

That's about where I've gotten with fishing tackle. I used to buy high end stuff. I'd take them in to be dissasmbled and cleaned once a year. It was about twenty bucks a reel. Now folks want sixty to eighty bucks. Hell, I can buy a whole outfit for less than that and just buy a new one when it breaks. Its a sad statement on our society, but its true. Cheap and semi-good enough drives out quality, so the rational choice is to buy cheap and disposable items if they do the job. I think I'll steer a middle course with the sunglasses. I don't want crap, but I'm not spending $150 plus on a pair of non prescription lenses either when they will be used hard on the water.

[TAB]

CHeck your local blue coller supply houses.   they often have higher end safety glasses that are 40 ish.  They last for years and no one knows they are safety glass.   

[tombogan03884]

That's about where I've gotten with fishing tackle. I used to buy high end stuff. I'd take them in to be dissasmbled and cleaned once a year. It was about twenty bucks a reel. Now folks want sixty to eighty bucks. Hell, I can buy a whole outfit for less than that and just buy a new one when it breaks. Its a sad statement on our society, but its true. Cheap and semi-good enough drives out quality, so the rational choice is to buy cheap and disposable items if they do the job. I think I'll steer a middle course with the sunglasses. I don't want crap, but I'm not spending $150 plus on a pair of non prescription lenses either when they will be used hard on the water.

That's the " disposable society" that Alvin Toffler wrote about in "Future  Shock" .