58.5mm Espresso Tamper – Rosewood Handle, Self-Leveling & Double Spring-Loaded Calibrated Design – Fits 58mm Portafilters for Precise, Consistent Shots

I'm kinda floored by this thing. First impressions, it is heavy. Like 2 lbs heavy. The machining finish is beautiful all around. The wood is smooth and well finished and while it does display a logo, there are no weird Amazon brand names to be found. The logo is quite classy really.How this works:There are two springs in the unit. The first is a very light pressure spring that attaches to the collar. The collar is precision machined and matched to the shaft so that it slides up and down easily, but cannot wobble or move off perpendicular. When the collar engages the top of the portafilter, the light pressure spring compresses and the tamping plate travels straight down into the portafilter. There is second spring in the shaft, between the handle and the tamping plate that is weight calibrated. This spring is changeable. The tamper comes pre installed with a 25lb spring and there is a 20lb and 30lb spring in the box, a long with tools to change the spring. As you push down, the collar spring compresses until the tamping plate touches the coffee and then you feel more resistance as the calibrated spring kicks in. You simply press a little further to slightly compress the calibrated spring, and you're done. The trick here is to not bottom out the calibrated spring, or you will just be directly applying force to the puck.25lbs is a lot less force than you think when pressing down. I have no doubts that this tamper comes a going to provide me consistently in tamping for years to come and it goes be me peace of mind that I am able to eliminate another variable in my pursuit of the perfect shots.I can't recommend it enough. After holding this thing in my hands and using it, I would've been willing to pay a fair bit more to own it. The quality level is just not something that you see anymore these days.

The media could not be loaded. This is truly a high quality tamper. Looks great and the wood is classy.It fits perfectly in the stock bambino plus basket. I tried it with other baskets as well like an IMS and it fits pretty well. Very easy to use out of the box and the default calibration is enough with no need to exchange it. Tamping is great and does its job well every time and flat every time. For the price this is probably one of the best tampers out there and would highly recommend it.Can be slightly difficult to clean because of the ridges at the bottom but not a big deal and can be done with a small brush in a couple of seconds.I had another tamper that was calibrated as well but had a very thick bottom part that made it difficult to tamp flat but this one is made just right to allow for perfect tamping every time. So if you have a similar problem this will work well for that.A small thing but I like the small keychain it comes with. Just a cherry on top.

We use this twice a day. The build quality is pretty nice. Solid and holds up well. The wood handle is great quality and looks really nice.

High quality. Love it. The only reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is because i didn't receive the bottomless portafilter with it. It showed it in the pictures when I bought it. Was one of the reasons i paid 200$ for some espresso accessories. I cant find what i bought now, its gone. Usually you can see itll say "purchased" with a date and ive searched and can't find it

I bought the whole set. The tamper looks elegant with the nice wood. It creates a good level coffee surface to create a rich flavor coffee. Then putting it in the tamping station next to my coffee brewer gives a nice look to me kitchen counter.

Beautiful looking tamper with the ability to adjust pressure via one of the removable springs.

Exactly what husband wanted. Love that it is spring loaded

This espresso tamper has been fantastic! It has a solid weight, feels great in hand, and complements my coffee set up beautifully. Plus, it includes extra parts in case the spring wears out over time. Highly recommended!