Dewalt launched new Radians-made safety glasses, model DPG110, dubbed “Chisel.”
According to Amazon’s product listing:
Experience the perfect blend of style and functionality with our half-frame design, catering to the dynamic needs of outdoor enthusiasts.
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I wondered if perhaps the description was accidentally referencing a different product, until I came across this part:
The DPG110 Chisel offers 99.9% UV protection, ensuring your eyes are safeguarded against the sun’s rays during every adventure.
Further down the page, it does add that:
DEWALT’s premium Guaranteed Tough protective eyewear, [are] perfect for construction, manufacturing, automotive, HVAC, and more.
I found the “outdoors enthusiast” and “adventure” parts unusual, but it’s not a bad thing. These seem well-featured and reasonably priced, and should be suitable for work or play that calls for safety eyewear with impact protection.
The glasses are rated with Z87.1+ impact resistance. Features include anti-scratch protection, a vented “floating loop” nosepiece, soft-touch rubber brow, and also soft-touch temples.
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They’re available with clear or tinted polycarbonate lenses.
Price: ~$7 each
As someone that still hasn’t gotten around to getting prescription safety glasses, and who wears goggles whenever impact protection is needed, I love how lightweight these look. The half-frame design looks pretty comfortable.
Alexk
For the price, I’ll give it a try. Not my style, but I like having safety glasses stashed in different areas and tool bags. It looks like it might not fog up when wearing a dust mask.
Off topic, I bought the m12 fuel jigsaw yesterday for $129 and can’t wait to use it today. The non fuel was terrible. I think it would cut faster without the battery and used as a handsaw.
Peter
Haha and I hope you have better luck with the new jig saw.
I am very happy with me Bosch 12v
JohnBCS
I grabbed the new M12 jigsaw close to launch and love it. It’s just what I was looking for in a jigsaw. I have a corded bosch and used to have an M18 barrel grip, but the M12 is easily my favorite.
Mike
Doesn’t seem significantly different than the old model DEWALT DPG55-11. I purchased this back on 2012. Works well until the most piece starts to fall off.
Mike
Nose piece*
Also it uses to be the same price $6-8.
Stuart
Different nose piece and temples/arms.
Bonnie
Looks pretty par for the course. Most of the DeWalt safety glasses I’ve tried I found to be a little too restrictive in the arms. I assume since these lack much of an ear-hook they are designed to be tight so as not to fall off, but they get pretty uncomfortable on my giant melon.
My primary sunglasses these days are 3M’s rimless UV safety glasses. They’re really comfortable, and I appreciate the lack of obvious branding or superfluous design elements, which I can’t say about these Dewalts.
Rog
Too over-styled for my tastes. I prefer my safety glasses to be extremely nondescript, so I use the plain plastic molded ones.
John
Do these come with rat tails or mullets in the package? Seriously who designs this garbage?
Stuart
Wow, that’s kind of harsh.
John
No, not really. Calling a spade a spade. Companies pander designs to a certain demographic which perpetuates it. Who thought Pit Viper glasses were a good design?
Adam
Perhaps if they came in that rainbow finish look. These look like safety glasses first & foremost to me.
MM
These don’t seem particularly extreme to me either, at least not these days. They’re not to my taste but that style of lens has been around for a long time. I think the colors are actually quite practical, it’s easy to see if people are wearing these from a distance and if they’re easy to find if dropped or misplaced.
I used to manage a university lab, and that included safety matters. I found that the one thing which best correlated with people wearing safety glasses as frequently as possible was providing a wide variety of different styles. Different people have different preferences and also different head shapes. If they have a variety to choose from and can pick ones they like they will wear them a lot more regularly than if there’s just one or two styles provided.
burnan
I think the point is valid. Companies produce goods to fit what they think will sell more, or what is cheaper, or “stylish”. This matters to most when it comes to what we wear, and then it gets a bit personal. Fortunately, there is a lot of choice.
Mark M.
These aren’t my style but I’m all for whatever gets people to wear safety glasses. Best thing I ever did was take an old pair of Oakley frames and bought OEM clear lenses. They’ve held up for going on 7 years and don’t scratch, fog or otherwise bug me the way budget safety glasses do.
NoDak Farming
I once had prescription lenses put in Oakleys for work. At one work site I didn’t have much issues with them. But at another industrial construction site the safety director took issue with them not being OSHA rated to keep the lenses from popping out. So I switched to Wiley-X prescription glasses. Wiley-X makes stylish glasses that are sometimes marketed to the motorcycle crowd. But they have all the OSHA ratings you need to get by with using them at a work site.
I remember the first time I saw half frame wrap-around glasses in the 90’s. They were Oakleys, they were expensive, and if you saw them on someone, you didn’t have to ask if they were Oakleys. That was kind of their trademark look to sunglasses at the time. And now I have safety glasses out in the shop that have this, once expensive, wrap-around half frame style. I’m not attracted to the pair in this story though. They most definitely have a Western Safety flair going on with them. Western Safety’s yellow and black themed safety glasses actually look even more stylish in my opinion.
Ron
My choices are limited being I wear glasses, so these won’t work.
I finally found a goggle-like pair of safety glasses that fit over glasses that don’t steam up. Tried several different brands of goggles but they all steam up and fog. The new pair brand is No Cry. They do great keeping dust and debris out of my eyes when on the ZT.
mark
Check out “cat crap” haha it’s an anti fog product pretty cheap, what I’ve used in mfg. When we were required to wear masks & It did pretty good even then.
Nathan
I’m intrigued like someone said they look a lot like Oakley’s or etc. First thing I thought of was yard work. Might try the tinted one first just for that but only if the lens comes down far enough. I need something big enough but not goggles to keep the dust out of my eyes. I used a 3m goggle today
mark
You might like gasketed safety glasses?
mark
Personally I stick to the full frame options. DeWalt/Milwaukee both good, dewalt fits slightly tight on me.
Watched testing of cylindrical metal objects + spheres being dropped on half & full frames. I don’t like how half frames guide an object like that right to the bottom of your eye/upper cheek bone. The full frames “catch” the object on the bottom lip of the frame & prevent it from getting as close to your eye. In real life, I find things can’t get kicked up underneath the bottom of the glasses as easily.
For me I only wear half frames when I’m working with liquids & don’t have projectile concerns. But I still don’t think the coverage is as good.
Ps, did we lose the ability to receive email notifications to replies to our comments/replies to a post a while back? Or am I doing something wrong?
Stuart
Yes. The software was updated with new subscription features I didn’t want or need, and even though they were disabled, the update was buggy and broke the site. I had to disable the comment subscriptions to fix things.
Just before that happened, two readers had issues with it, and I had already lost confidence in the service provider. When the update broke the entire site, despite the features not even being enabled, I lost complete confidence in the service.
In the months since that happened, you’re the first to bring it up.
mark
Ah got ya. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll just manually circle back for conversation I especially care about continuing. Frustrating having tech issues like that, I get it.
s
the price is competitive for the market.
i tend to prefer the ‘kleenguard nemesis’ model, specifically for the extended rubber arm portion that grips, but doesn’t rely on intense pressure to maintain their location, which makes wearing them for extended periods of time more comfortable. and while a rat tail or mullet aren’t included, i prefer this style of lens, in part because it keeps more debris away from my eye’s than more standard rounded safety lenses tend to.
these dewalt’s appear to be very similar to the majority of other safety glasses on the market from the offerings i’m familiar with from uline, 3m, or milwaukee, with a mostly-plastic arm to maintain tension to the head. for that, i’d rate these as another ‘me too’ offering. nothing about the design, price, or initial branding appears to be overall positive or negative contrasted to the competing offerings, outside of the differing colors to better coordinate with my work kilt.
the main reason i’d end up buying a pair is if a coworker ends up with something too similarly-styled to what i’m already wearing. makes it easier to identify the thief in the group without resorting to making a grade school project out of marker marks and tape.
James
Second the nemesis. In 16 years of searching, they’re the best for every day and all day use. Cheap, comfortable, durable, and they all come with a tether which is a nice touch.
For high danger situations (for me that’s working with tiny resin beads), I like Milwaukee 48-73-2040. Excellent protection and relatively comfortable, although the foam locks in the humidity so I do have to take occasional “mop the brow” breaks.
Whoever said the Dewalt styling was garbage, I second that too. To each their own; I just find them to be garish for no reason. I prefer my safety glasses to be as muted as possible.