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In fact, metal eyewear plating color fall off is the problem of plating issue, it has nothing to do with metal eyewear. Usually the metal eyewear is required to be plated finished. Here we introduce several plating process for metal eyewear and their advantages and disadvantages.

Electrophoresis plating, commonly known as “water-plating”, it refers of coating mirror surface on metal eyewear by electrolytic method, more commonly used in normal alloy metal eyewear. To take example, stainless metal eyewear, nickel silver metal eyewear etc..

Advantages: low cost, and rich colors
Disadvantages: Very low coating adhesion, gold, silver, gun generally available for about a year; other colors generally can occur color fall off in 3-6 months.
Most Chinese eyewear supplier applies water-plating method coating metal eyewear.

Heavy gold electroplate–divided into “multi-layer texture coating method” and “the multilayer plating method” of two kinds. These two kinds of galvanization technological requirement is a natural metal color, thus the frame color is a single adopting of such processing, basically gold, silver major color.

The feature is coated with a thick 3.5UM gold or silver, generally available for about many years, no skin irritation and discomfort complaints.

IP vacuum ion plating: heat frame surface to form negative ions, free in a vacuum furnace, combined with the pigment particles through current electrodes to the lead adsorption on the surface of frame plating layer is formed.
Advantage: Eco-friendly, strong electroplated coatings adhesion, generally available for about many years without color falling off.

Weaknesses: color is gloomy, plating is not bright.

Multi-coated divided into spraying and paint two types.
A, spraying process: used for many students metal eyewear outer coating and covering.
Advantages: rich colors, bright
Disadvantage: prone to falling off and fading.

B, baking varnish technology: Used for fashion frames;
Advantages: coating thick, colorful and bright
Disadvantages: easy to scratch, color fall off.

There are various metal eyewear plating method, quality plating refers to electroplating equipment, materials, technology and other related factors, compared to other plating method, vacuum ion plating process is more complex, technical requirements for equipment are higher, so it is not easy to color falling off, the plating cost more expensive.

Usually, metal eyewear material ranges are nickel silver, stainless steel, titanium etc… These materials processed through precision processing, e-plated with gold, silver, or popular painting colors finish. Metal eyewear is sturdy and durable; it has smooth surface and good appearance, light weight. Following is a brief introduction about our metal eyewear producing process:

1. After we receive customer’s order, we will study carefully as per customer’s specific requirements; we will work and confirm with customers every detail in order to ensure that the products meet customer’s specific requirements. During the producing processes, the production order will be arranged to different departments such as design department, material procurement department, accessories department, assemble department, e-plating and painting department, assembling and shipping department.

2. Samples production. We can make the technical drawings as per customer’s specific requirement and physical samples. After the drawing approved well, samples production will be started, we will ship the samples for our customer approval. Final confirmation of the sample is the basis of our products basis.

3. Material preparing. Our materials procurement department will book material according to customers orders needs, the material includes eye wire, bridge metal and end piece and other accessories, temples tips material etc. Metals generally have nickel silver, stainless steel, titanium etc, in order to ensure the quality; most of metal materials we used are high quality which imported from foreign.

4. Accessories producing, After material reach to us, we will process oil pressed or wire cutting the material or semi-finished products, then the accessories will go through bending, cutting, welding, polishing, tumbling, shinny, etc.

5. Welding group main process: welding rim lock→ open rim lock→ welding metal bridge →welding cross bridge→ welding nose arm→ welding hinge→ welding spring hinge box→ welding frame

6. Acetate parts group process (including temples tips, plastic temples): acetate cutting→ shooting metal core→ cut temple→ temple decorating →handiwork→ bend temples→ tumbling → polishing →QC, final process is for frame assembling.

7. Lens cutting. Firstly making eye mold based on CAD drawing, and then fix eye mold on cutting machine to cut lenses.
Assemble process. According to the orders assembling group assemble for the front, temples/temples tips, lenses. So that a complete metal eyewear are finished.

8. Final inspection. After the assembly is completed, if metal eyewear has attached acetate temple tips, it will process final polishing and shinny, and then clean the frame and process final inspect. All products must get through final inspection before shipment.

Finally, according to the requirements of the customers, we ship the goods through express (usually we use FedEx, DHL, or UPS) or by air to transport the goods to the customer’s hands, we’ll do the tracking and trance for the goods, once we find the shipping problem, we will act promptly to handle the problem. After customer receive the products, customer feedback with any questions, our related person will seriously study and then make a proper processing until customer satisfied.

Our factory most competitive products are metal eyewear, acetate eyewear and buffalo horn eyewear.

For buffalo horn eyewear wearers, the most difficult problem is probably the buffalo horn eyewear out of shape.

It is a troublesome problem for the wearers, it will not only affect the users comfortable wearing, but also cause wearers feel fatigue, and headaches. If users wear such frame, in some cases, even endanger to the health of the wearers eyes.

Why buffalo horn eyewear out of shape?
Formerly, buffalo horn is a purely natural products and horn original texture and shape is curved, so horn raw materials have features of memory functions.

From our industry experience, other buffalo horn eyewear suppliers products is easily out of shape, some suppliers products won’t out of shape. How come it is?

Since a piece of horn material width is 170mmx60mm, during produce buffalo horn arms. In order to save horn material. Other buffalo horn eyewear suppliers engrave straight arms. In this method, they are able to cut out 2 pairs of arms, thus saving some production cost and make more profits.

However, this method was likely to cause products out of shape. Because these straight buffalo horn arms need bending procedure, for a few time, horn original texture and shape must bounce back into the original straight, eventually leading to the wearer’s buffalo horn eyewear out of shape.

In order to prevent buffalo horn eyewear out of shape because of memory functions, during engrave buffalo horn arms, our factory totally follows horn original texture and shapes. In this method, buffalo horn arm is a naturally curvature. No need bend-shape by hand in later procedures. These natural bending arms are not easy out of shape compared with straight arms. It is also not easily out of shape in wearer’s hand.

Actually, following horn original texture and shapes spends more horn material. If arms width relative big. Base on measurement 170mmx60mm horn raw material. It can only produce 1 pair of arms. For straight arms, it can produce 2 pair of arms. Our costs are increased by one half.

As a professional buffalo horn eyewear supplier, in order to peruse a high end quality buffalo horn eyewear product. We guarantee that all our buffalo horn arms produced by follow horn original texture and shapes.

How to shape by hand if your buffalo horn eyewear don’t have good shapes?

Buffalo horn is a purely natural products and horn original texture and shape is curved, so Horn materials have certain memory functions. What can we do if the buffalo horn eyewear don’t have good shapes caused by the horn material memory function?

If wearer or buyer choose to return it to the buffalo horn eyewear factory maintenance, can be a waste for a long time, and even take 1 month or more. And also during transport and custom clearance may be in troubles.

As a professional buffalo horn eyewear supplier, we would like to teach you following method to shape your buffalo horn eyewear by hand.
Using the HOT AIR GUN, if there is no HOT AIR GUN, also can use household electric hair dryers and transferred to the hottest grade. Blowing buffalo horn eyewear deformed front or arms over 10-20 seconds until horns soften, and then maintain good shape by hand. After maintain a good shape, then leave the buffalo horn eyewear cool in natural, never soak buffalo horn eyewear into water to cool it, it will make buffalo horn peeling or blistering.

When need maintenance buffalo horn eyewear by using horn cream to avoid it bursting?

From our experience, when the humidity of the air is around or greater than≥80%, buffalo horn eyewear is not easy to break or crack. When the humidity of the air is less than≤20%, buffalo horn eyewear will have a risk of bursting and crack.

So generally no need to use horn cream in summer, in the winter and spring, due to the drying air humidity, it had better use horn cream to maintenance buffalo horn eyewear.

1. Please don’t soak water, or use hot water washing, it has risks to loose shape and become mildewed. After washing by water, please remember wipe with a soft cloth immediately.

2. Please don’t put your buffalo horn eyewear on bed or next to bed to avoid be damaged when sleep. We recommended that take off buffalo horn eyewear into eyewear case or drawer.

3. Please don’t put your buffalo horn eyewear on sofa or car seat to avoid the risk of being accidentally breakage.

4. Please don’t fall, press buffalo horn eyewear due to avoid it broken.

5. Maintenance horn by using lanolin cream or some hand cream to avoid it brittle.

Firstly, let us learn what is the difference between materials and features of buffalo horn?

Natural white horn: white horn is glittering and translucent as jade, often with natural white and yellow natural textures. Is the best among buffalo horn eyewear, due to the scarcity of material resources, the prices remain high, and used for making high-end luxury buffalo horn eyewear.
According to experts, animal albino formed primarily by gene mutation. Such as white Tigers, White Lions, white Bull ….These are very rare and precious, and the White Buffalo is one of the most precious. A lot of people in the world treat White Buffalo as sacred animals.

Natural Blonde buffalo horn: Blonde buffalo horn is translucent brown, feels and touches comfortable, warm and humid color, which comes from high altitude area in India, with dry textures, there are relatively plenty of raw materials. But since import customs duties and shipping cost etc, Blonde buffalo horn eyewear price are relatively high.

Natural yellow horn: yellow horn is translucent yellow, with noise colors, with dry textures, there are relatively plenty of raw materials, and the price is relatively lower.

Natural black horn: Black buffalo horn from the South of Asian, heavy and thick, jet black color, Black horn is basically buffalo horn eyewear materials, as relatively plenty of raw material, the price is relatively cheaper than white and blonde buffalo horn eyewear.

Lastly, let us learn how is the difference of buffalo horn eyewear man craftwork, buffalo horn eyewear man craftwork distinguished mainly from raw materials, workmanship, gloss and precision difference. In General, low-quality Buffalo Horn eyewear craftwork roughly, touches and feels worse, low gloss, and some cracked inside the horn, or prone to breakage, low-quality of buffalo horn eyewear can’t last for many years. A perfect buffalo horn eyewear hand polishing much better than poor quality buffalo horn eyewear, excellent in workmanship and takes long time, a perfect buffalo horn eyewear cost is much higher, it is strong and robust which can last for many years for wearers.

Usually, Buffalo horn eyewear colors are made from three different types of cattle:
Ox horn（Bos taurus horn）
Water buffalo horn (Bubalus bubalus horn)
Yak horn（Bubalus bubalus horn）

Ox horn
Ox horn is a yellow transparent color, mix more or less black or brownish red blood textures and patterns. Present buffalo horn eyewear colors are yellow, dark brown and light brown.
Ox has a wide distribution, heads up, such as various, and working cattle, mainly in China and Japan, most closely associated with human life.

Water buffalo horn
Water buffalo horn is a bright black color, shininess, mixed more or less white textures and patterns. Good horn feels warm and thick, smaller fibrous, delicate texture, bright color. Present final Buffalo horn eyewear colors are jet-black, black and white horn.

Yak horn
Yak grows at more than 3000 meters above sea level plateau and high-cold Qinghai-Tibet plateau, Yak growth cycle is much longer than Ox and water buffalo cattle, so the point density, hardness, toughness is much more durable, which includes protein fiber component the effect for produce buffalo horn eyewear is one of the best. Present final Buffalo horn eyewear colors are milk white horn.

Natural buffalo horn is above 6 colors, which present buffalo horn eyewear colors are yellow, dark brown and light brown, jet-black, black and white, milk white horn.

Elle Wang was an optician, for over 25 years of career. She felt too many guests slip their eyewear from nose and ears feel pain after long-term wearing of eyewear. So she wanted to design a sort that optometrists can easily maintain, which also makes the guests feel comfortable eyewear.

Buffalo horn eyewear has solved the problems of Elle Wang all thinks about.

Buffalo horn eyewear supplier choose India water buffalo horn or Tibet yak Horn to manufacture, Buffalo horn eyewear production process is not easy, only the most skilled masters whom very understand the horn features can handcraft it. If don’t take careful, it is not only easy to waste material, and it is more difficult to control its thickness and shape. Horn is a lipophilic natural materials with pores can absorb sebum, wear long time buffalo horn eyewear won’t fear eyewear easily slip from nose! Buffalo horn eyewear effectively solves guest’s eyewear slip from nose problems.

Buffalo horn has special natural active colloidal protein ingredients, bitter and salty, cool disintoxicating, cooling blood, conformable and relieving convulsion, carminative pharmacological effects, its elements will stimulate the acupoints around human’s ears. According above horn features, Buffalo horn eyewear will not become a burden to ears but also buffalo horn eyewear can help to alleviate ears feel pain, dizziness when long-term wearing of eyewear.

Buffalo horn eyewear with “customized services”, whether it is type, color, shape, etc, can be “tailored”, let you enjoy swimming in the comfortable sense of nature, let us go to create a pair of your own custom buffalo horn eyewear.

Buffalo Horn eyewear in the layman’s view is a double rims and a pair of arms combination, in the view of expert, a pair of high quality Buffalo Horn eyewear every little process and man craft is patent and very particular. High-end Buffalo Horn eyewear polishing process simply takes 100 hours or more, and totally finished by handwork, while outsiders see just tip of the iceberg, how many people can find the huge ice hidden under a sea?

AOKER eyewear is a professional Buffalo Horn eyewear supplier, AOKER will work with you to uncover the Buffalo Horn eyewear development and production process that hidden value and some of the little-known secrets.

A pair of Buffalo Horn eyewear from design to production to consumers, during this term, from our industry experience, buffalo horn eyewear experienced a long of process, may is half a year, even some Buffalo Horn eyewear products development period up to 2 years, eventually products may just is a double rims and pair arms, but, by pay of design and production of time, these who never seen upon can’t said it doesn’t exist at all.

The best horn raw materials are scarce, most high-quality real buffalo horn raw materials imports in a remote area of Africa, China Tibet, India, South America and other places. You can see only double rims and pair arms, but customers did not see real buffalo horn material is difficulty to source and the material is really scarcity.

Generally, all of Buffalo Horn eyewear design is firstly from a design concept starting, why has this style? Why has this structure? Why with this material? It is after long time of thinking, the designer can come upon a small of idea. And put these idea into production, some processes are essential, like make prototypes, a concept first make technical drawings, and then made into real prototypes. we will observation and study, this physical prototype compared with design concept and consumers wear feelings, And problems may happen during mass production, it must go through prototype to test feasibility, even we has technical drawings, We also have to create a model to observation if can meet the requirements of the design and users feelings in the real life. This 2 links is a long of process, especially prototypes production, may need 1 time, 2 times, 3 times of prototyping and modified, including last color selection, this are is long term of process.

As Buffalo Horn eyewear factory, labor cost, the highest is master who makes prototypes, as a good and skilled master, their wage is much higher than some supervisors, because master must have a lot of knowledge of the entire production, only the most skilled masters whom very understand the Horn features to operate. And he will find that some of the problems in the manufacturing process may conflict with the design, he needs to be responsible for these issues, help designers make modifications, if put this product on the production line, the entire products probably be whole scrapped in the production process. Prototype Master is a very high precision job, need to be accumulated for a abundance time to get to this role.

Buffalo horn eyewear in production is quite different with normal eyewear. To take an example for polished technology. A pair Buffalo horn eyewear polished work most basic is 100 hours, from horn plate to cut to production, same of things. For normal eyewear products, one day of polished volume is 300 pieces, the gap between the two is so far away.

100 hour Polishing products, the gloss, high precision, and its standards are impeccable, Buffalo horn eyewear is arts and crafts, and normal eyewear are industrial products.

Buffalo horn eyewear has a lot of things you can’t see behind, from the production process, materials used, have the suitability of the product to consumer. Generally speaking, a luxury product, high prices are related with excellent material with excellent mancraftships.

When I was got my first buffalo horn eyewear brittle, my heart was break. Not because of the buffalo horn eyewear is expensive, because I really love it comfortable wearing, beautiful natural horn, touches and feels refreshing, and friendly to human’s skins.

Until we know the features of buffalo horn eyewear, then we will know how to maintain our buffalo horn eyewear.

The ONE and ONLY

As all horns in nature have differences in color, pattern and striations, ranging from subtle to significant, each pair of natural buffalo horn eyewear is unique and the one only. Horn is one of the earliest materials used to make eyewear, natural horn is varied in color and striations, each piece of buffalo horn eyewear displaying stunning striations that make it a distinctive statement of timeless beauty.

Comfortable Wearing

There are different materials used for eyewear, the best eyewear materials should come close to your eyes and face. Buffalo horn is latex-free and hypoallergenic, very friendly to human’s skins, an excellent choice especially for people with skin sensitivity or contact allergies.

Touches and feels refreshing

Natural horn has the remarkable quality of adjusting to the skin temperature, allowing for an almost seamless feel. The pleasant warmth distinguishes buffalo horn eyewear from the standard manmade materials used in traditional eyewear lines and offers a sensual frame-wearing experience, a big plus for many luxury eyewear wearers.

Time-worn elegance

As buffalo horn is a purely nature material, it has the extraordinary ability to age gracefully with use. The gradual evolution and organic patina embody the very characteristics cherished by selective eyewear wearers.

Eco-friendly

Sourced from sustained domesticated herds, the buffalo horn eyewear we use have minimum negative impact on the environment. Leftover horn chips and shavings from the production process are recycled as fertilizers in agriculture. The humble horn wastes are actually a first-rate quality manure as horn is an excellent source of slow release Nitrogen.

Longevity

As with all items of value, your buffalo horn eyewear need to be maintained to keep them best. Horn is a durable product of nature, if maintain it for correctly, can last for many years.

We suggest that it had better to let owners know how to taking good care of their buffalo horn eyewear. Caution refers ：
-No pressing, no pushing
-No dropping
-Avoid touching from water
-Protect horn by lanolin cream
Use the Vaseline oil moisturized the buffalo horn eyewear to prevent it brittle.