Thread: Any coffee grinder collectors ?

Useful and accurate information on grinders in one place:
orphanespresso.com/500-Grinders

I worked with, sold to, and bought from, these folks for about 6 years. They changed direction about three years back to manufacture hand grinders to better standards:Orphan Espresso Manual Coffee Grinders

~Richard

Lets see some pics nick.Have never owned one but some are beautiful machines.

This is a star no 18 coffee mill. This what I plan to restore mine too



This is a star coffee mill no 7. All original .

Fairbanks

Zassenhaus ;

Zounds Zimmy, zats znice!

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Zounds Zimmy, zats znice!

Zank you Zer ..........

I bought my girlfriend one of the narrow ones you have.

I love fresh ground coffee! Doesn't have to be anything exotic, but it's sure good fresh! I was always curious about how good one of the antique ones would work. Do any of you guys still use them?

Originally Posted by nicknbleeding

I bought my girlfriend one of the narrow ones you have.

They call those 'knee grinders' because of the concave sides. You can sit with the grinder held between the knees for stability while grinding. I've used all of them that are in the photos, and the one at the top, on the left, known as the Brilliant, is the best of the bunch AFAIC. Prized by Zass collectors judging by ebay results. All are very good at what they do IME. Oddly enough, the double door model is not much larger in capacity than the others shown. Just really cool to have. There are two others that I would like to acquire from a collecting point of view, a side handle grinder, and a really old open hopper model. I'm done with acquiring grinders though.