Thread: Jewelers loupe

I buy them a few at a time. Cheap enough to have one in the cave, the shop, and the kitchen where I do my honing.
Amazon.com: loupe 60x
Have fun!
~Rihard
PS the 60x has a UV light position to check currency and bring all that Uncle Sam put into bigger bill to make counterfeiting less easy. It also will show up some fungi.

Get you one exactly like this one. It works perfect & the black part pulls out & pushes in for focusing. There was another article on here showing one of these somewhere. They go for about $5. If you look & see one on auction, copy the title & go to sellers other items & paste the title in the search box & usually a buy it now one will come up.

The one Richard is talking about if you go to Amazon is just like this one.

Thanks to all for the helpful advice. I have just placed an order on amazon.

It's all a matter of what you want to see. If all you want is to be able to see the chips and you have good vision these cheapies are fine. If you want detail and eye relief and good light gathering power then you need quality.

Check out Optical Accessories if you want quality.

I'm fond of my Hastings Triplet. Bausch & Lomb's is the cheapest, probably around $40-50 now for the 10x. It's got the best resolution you'll get short of a full, high-quality microscope. Resolution is the ability to distinguish separate details as being separate. With low resolution, the separate details can just merge into a single blob. Higher magnification without good resolution will just get you a view of a bigger single blob.

The higher magnification you use, the lower your light-gathering ability will be. 10x is a good compromise between seeing what you need to see and the view being too dark to be useful.

Baush and Lomb 10x works for most of my uses but I have purchased larger optics off eBay/Amazon. Still go back to the B&L most of the time.