Working with (machining) glass
Oct 17, 2011· Yes and no. You can machine glass with the tools you have. You can grind your own lenses. What you can''t do, or can''t do easily, is to mill from block of glass to polish ready lens without making a grinding tool. The words polish and grind are not used the same by lens makers as we use them. In the above I used the machinist definitions.