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Pay with Nano and other cryptocurrency

We no longer can accept payments for Nano through Shopify.  Everything has to be done manually.  I am fine processing Nano payments manually because I believe in the future of it and want to help with adoption.  If you are interested in purchasing a pair of glasses with Nano, please shoot me an email at hello(at)rauchroad.com and I'll work with you to make it happen.  I am going to continue to search for new ways to get Nano integrated into the site. We have also added the ability to pay with other cryptocurrencies through Coinbase Merchant.  

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How to Choose the Right Shaped Sunglasses

When you’re standing in front of a display of sunglasses, deciding which to buy can be a daunting task.  While many may look appealing, which of them are really going to work for you?  Which will land you the job, get you the girl, make a passerby look twice? You could spend hours trying on each pair that catches your eye, narrowing down your selection, then retrying the best remaining, but after all of that you still might walk away with a pair of shades that just don’t look quite right.  The right pair of sunglasses for you is largely dependent on your individual features: your head and nose size, your face shape and your usual color scheme.  The following...

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Why You Should Choose Bamboo and Other Wood Based Sunglasses

For years the market has been stocked with the same old sunglasses, which offer some aesthetic variety of plastic frames, but not much else. That is why designers have taken to bamboo and other woods as top choice material for modern sunglasses. Fashionably, there is no question that the unique variety of wood grain looks great on a frame, but many wearers are leaning toward these new shades for other reasons. As the market is overflowing with cheaply manufactured oil based products, bamboo and other wood based sunglasses offer the opportunity to be a conscious consumer. Besides looking and feeling great, these natural materials just happen to work better as lightweight, practical frames too. Sustainability: Bamboo is a highly sustainable...

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How much do our sunglasses weigh?

Lets find out. I've had a few people ask me how much our sunglasses weigh.  Being part or all wood & bamboo they are actually lighter than standard metal and plastic sunglasses. All of the glasses weighed today were compared to Rayban Wayfarers and measured on a Dymo Digital Postal Scale. Make sure the scale is at 0.0 The Rayban Wayfarers weigh in at 1.3oz. Our Duncan rosewood sunglasses weigh in at 0.8oz. Our Bryson bamboo arm sunglasses weigh in at 0.9oz. Our Frisco bamboo & wood arm sunglasses weigh in at 1.0oz. Summary All our of current models are lighter than classic Wayfarers by Rayban. The biggest difference was 0.5oz. To give you an idea of how much that is,...

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