Antique Italian Coffee Grinder - Restoration

Video Description

In this video I'm restoring a very unique looking antique italian coffee grinder. I recieved this coffee grinder a few weeks ago as a gift from a subscriber from Italy. He sent me a picture of it, asking me if I want it on Instagram and I said yes immediately. I really liked the unique look of it and its design. At first I thought this would be a very simple straight forward project. It would soon turn out how wrong I was. The two big wooden parts became a real challenge to restore. It would be rather easy to make new ones, but I really wanted to keep the original ones and restore them. As the bottom piece was warped a lot and was also 3mm oval I couldn't just machine it all clean right away, otherwise I would need to take off way to much material. I decided to try to bend it back flat by soaking in water for a day and than clamp it flat and let it dry. Fortunately my plan worked out and the pice got almost flat again, to my surprise it also became round again within 0.5mm. The reliefed stress made a few cracks appear. I filled them all with a mix of epoxy glue and sawdust. After that I was able to machine it nicely and didn't loose to much on its original size. The wooden top was rather easy to restore compared to the bottom. Because it had a very loose fit in the body, I decided to machine that diameter clean and glue on a sleeve. That worked very well and then I just had to remake the slots in the sleeve with my rotary tool by following the existing ones. The color choice was also quite a difficult task on this project. I changed my mind a few times and even repainted the body. First I painted the outside in corn yellow, but that looked very bad with the dark wood. After alot of thinking I decided to püaint it in light ivory, which in my opinion was the absolute correct decission. It matches the dark wood very nice and also works nicely together with the gold. Overall I'm very happy how this coffee grinder turned out. I hope you like my work and the video. Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and specially to: Tonya M Broerman Zack Thompson Adel AlSaffar afreeflyingsoul Carsten Bauer Yale Baker Gregory Alex McGeorge Alistair Moor Amar.k Anthony Eufemio Bendurion Br. Michael-Francis Smith, OSB Chris walter David Barker Greenstitute Haitham Al Zir HouziMoto Josh Ledford Josh Wasserman Joshua Bentley Lambda GPU Workstations Louie Carboni Marius Costan Matt Boothman Mellissa Marcus Monte Gibbs Nick Houston NoLoneSurvivor Paul Mampilly Pong Lenis potokslow StevenVR Tyler Autry Tyler Carruth Vickie Bligh Vince Valenti Xavier Carbel Yuri Zapuchlak Ajna Alex Breton Allen Frank Amanda Taylor, Esq Andreas Mimra Andrew Egerton Andrew Phillips Anthony Adams Arni Bjorgvinsson audi4444player Blake T Brian Hoerl c km Chad Bryant chris roberts Chris Simondet Daniel Varga Dave Hardware Embiss flowercrownbouncer Frankie DeSantis Geoffroy Grant Daniel Grok Senften Haley McFadden Hunter R. Ivan Jack Curry Jason Koi Jeremy Cole justin f. Karl R Kelly Imgrund Ken Rosso Kurt Gazow Marc Cerisier Mellissa McConnell Mike Donaldson Omar Domínguez Pasacal Schmikal Ray Yeager Regis Vincent Rev. Gina Pond Robert Todd Scott Marshall Sergei Shvartsman Subramaniam Venkitaraman Suiros Svenja Kuckla Tim Holt Trevor Kam Tucker Ifft 웅록 윤 My camera: Panasonic HC-VX11 I payed a lot of attention on the lighting when filming this video and also the quality of the sound to create an ASMR style video. If you have any questions about the process, machines i'm using or other stuff, just ask me in the comments. I read them all and i try to reply as soon as possible. Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english. Subscribe for more of my content. I'm uploading videos about mechanical stuff, as new creations and buildings and also restorations. Thank you for watching :-) „I make a new one“ T-Shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/my-mechanics My Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanics My Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanicsinsights My Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/mymechanics