This is a new tamper from Cafelat that's designed specifically for the VST baskets http://www.chriscoffee.com/products/hom...oyaltamper

I am a working barista. My preferred tamper is a cherry wood(i think) c-flat made by RB. I use it 100's of times in a shift I work about 6 days a week. I can tell you that I like a tamper that feels nice as far as weight goes. I like something that has a handle that is comfortable. I also sometimes will use my coffelab tamper, it has a rubber top, I get a blister thing from the ridge between the metal and the rubber. It makes a fold in the skin of my palm. So the handle material makes a difference to me. I also like a tamper with some sentimental value.

-thanks for your time

Bezman wrote:Hi.

Any information will be very appreciated!

To spend magnanimously is nice, at times, no doubt in complimenting equipment for money already spent. My first espresso maker was a large thingy-ma-jingy, black, egg-shaped steam container with a portafilter attached. Black and Decker or Mr. Coffee, something anyway I'd found in Wallymart for $25. Actually, sort of liked it, and wished I'd room for keeping it along with a Delonghi and Gaggia that came after. Might somehow compliment recent ruminations over an ibrik, manual Turkish grinder, or the mocha pot in the glass cabinet I could certainly stand to use more often than usual fare from a La Pavoni.

I used JB Weld, anyway, not quick-set, along with a Goodie barber's shaving brush, I cut the hog bristle from to modify a hard plastic disk I shaped and ground for fitting into a tamper. Used for so long, I believe I may eventually have wore out at the Goodie handle, which developed a crack. Been using a flat, inexpensive all-aluminum tamper replacement since. Wasn't much, if all of $10.