we’ve certainly had an epiphany this weekend, and it is all about our much promised but little to show for LONDINIUM tamper
here’s some proof of life;
and then to say we have decided to scrap all of that and make something that looks completely different
i’m ashamed to say we had drawn too much inspiration from Reg Barber’s designs (as is immediately obvious in the image above) and while Reg makes world class tampers I’m not much into copying other people’s work so it had to go
that’s right, we can’t guarantee that you will like our tamper as it is a complete departure from conventional designs, but we have searched the web and haven’t come across anything similar yet, so perhaps its a first – lets see – if it is I’m sure it won’t be for long
anyway, we are still rowing hard to get them on the shelf before the holidays arrive
what i can say is the base will still be brass and the wooden handle will still be African Blackwood, which we are using because it is blacker than the wenge that the previous Reg Barber tampers were made from and we can sand it to a bowling ball smooth finish