What Qualifies As "Custom" In Your Opinion?

[BADNESS]

I have been meaning to post this thread for a while now.

My own feelings aside (for now), I would like to hear from everyone else who has an opinion on this topic

Open the flood gates! :laugh:

And please feel free to "VOTE NOW".

 

[jk-27]

If you buy something and then changed it, no matter how little, you've customised it right? You've taken it and made it how you want it.

 

[Oakley Stephen]

I think that "custom" is anything that the individual does to make there glasses unique to there fashion preferences or there personal taste. I do not consider that quick icon change i.e. dispatch/ batwolf a "custom" unless the icons are something not provided for purchase thru oakley

 

[EditReject]

Good poll. To me it is either a Custom order from Oakley directly or any mod to an official pair (i.e. one with a specific model # designated by Oakley).

 

[xmetalmaniac]

Depending on how it is used, I would say made to order. IMO custom is different from modded. Custom can be a " one of " piece or built to suit the buyers needs or wants. I believe people get them mixed up.

Personally I like to mod only because you take things to levels the average person won't do, or even try.......

 

[nlgrav182]

If you can't order it that way from Oakley, it's modded, aka custom. OCP /= custom.

 

[Herbsley]

Depending on how it is used, I would say made to order. IMO custom is different from modded. Custom can be a " one of " piece or built to suit the buyers needs or wants. I believe people get them mixed up....

^ ^ ^ ^ I would subscribe to this view.

 

[Oakley_Sight]

Great thread. I'd have to say eveything on your list barring option ONE I see as customization as that is a standard option from Oakley on those frames to start with. If you paint a car up with graphic's or add vinyls are you customizing it or moding it? To me its customization. If you change the engine for a more powerful one or lower the suspension then that is a mod. So therefore you must be carring out customization with all the other options. If, like some do on the X-metal, you start swapping the noise bridges or arms about or say fit vented lenses to models that would not have them as an option (ie having them cut to fit a Monster Dog or other frames) then that is a mod as you are changing the make up of the frame set up.

 

[Romeo Van Frogskinstein]

Good poll. To me it is either a Custom order from Oakley directly or any mod to an official pair (i.e. one with a specific model # designated by Oakley).

You have firmly bashed the nails head, about as good a brief definition as you could get. All the options in the poll are effectively custom unless the alternative parts used are included with the official product. The Oxford Dictionary states; "customize - make to order or modify according to individual requirements".

 

[BADNESS]

I think that "custom" is anything that the individual does to make there glasses unique to there fashion preferences or there personal taste. I do not consider that quick icon change i.e. dispatch/ batwolf a "custom" unless the icons are something not provided for purchase thru oakley

I'd agree with that