FAQs
What you might want to know regarding techniques, quality, products and more
What are your products
We are starting with coffee industry, more items are coming in the future
Portafilter / Pourover Stand / Tamper
These 3 items are our first collection of organic / generative design style.
What is the material?
The material availabe now for coffee tools is stainless steel, 304 & 316L
What are the weights of them?
Tamper is still in design but roughly about 200 something grams. Portafilter is about 400-500 grams. Pourover stand is about 2kg.
What should I know about our 58mm portafilter
Size, weight, applicable brands
Size of the portafilter 58mm
We are only making 58mm bottomless (naked) 2 ears portafilter at this moment
What machines can I apply this portafilter?
We have tried so far: La Marzocco, La Pavoni, Flair 58, Slayer, Kees van der Westen.
By the design, it should work for all 58mm portafilter, if you are not sure please get in contact with us.
Will the portafilter be too heavy?
Not really, it's about 450 grams, the organic shape was pre optimizaed with software, compared to a La Marzocco original portafilter, weight of which goes us to 800 grams. Our portafilter is made of pure stainless steel, feels heavy but actually not. Free free to leave on the grouphead.
Some defects you should know
The shape that we are trying to make is very challenging, some misruns are visable at corners or on the inside, making them hard to weld and grind, and we decide to leave their for overall cost control.
We guarantee that the application and overall asthetics are not influenced.
A balance of look and cost
Will it rust? If I wash it?
Nope, all of our parts so far are made of stainless steel, with additional passivation process, a chemical treatment for stainless steel and other alloys that enhances the ability of the treated surfaces to resist corrosion. Feel assured.
Is the complete portafilter mirror polished?
No, actually, we are mostly focusing the outside, asthetically good, that's our goal, it's very difficult to polish some inside holes as organic style comes with small tiny holes on the inside, please understand it's not our philosophy to over beautify a product to charge extra or to reach only so-called "High End" market, we don't want that, we want more people who love the style could get one.
How are your products made?
It's challenging to make, and that's what makes it interesting.
3D printing as a start
We used a lot of FDM/SLA 3D printing, testing designs and assembly
Investment Casting
Investment casting is a very important part of our process, find out more about it here, it's the foundation of all of our work
Combination of 3D printing and casting
The most interesting thing of our project is the combination of casting practice with 3D printing.
Why not directly 3D print metal?
Simple, for a 500 gram portafilter, the cost, just the printing cost goes easily to more than $400, not to mention the mannual polishing.
Then to do a simple math with our pourover stand, it's more than 2KG, what will that be, it's not our philosophy.
Normally, 3D printing metal starts with a size limit, we have bigger parts to make, normally when you print only one part the charge goes rocket high.