Wasted $120 on a fancy leather grain press that warped after 3 uses

Bought one of those brass hand presses from a seller on Etsy last spring... claimed it was handmade in Italy. After pressing maybe 15 book spines, the whole thing bent out of shape and the screw stripped. Has anyone else had better luck with the cheaper cast iron ones from Harbor Freight?

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miles_hall25d ago

Man that sucks. I see this pattern everywhere now. People pay for the fancy label but get the same junk you'd find at a big box store. The brass thing sounds cool but brass is soft man. It's gonna give out under real pressure. Cast iron is ugly and heavy but it actually works. I think we've all been burned by the hype. Fancy packaging and a story about Italy doesn't mean quality anymore.

dakota41525d ago

Right? Next they'll sell us faucets made of pure aluminum foil and call it "artisan flow technology." Spend fifty bucks on a "handcrafted" handle that strips out before you even finish installing it. Guess that's what we get for trusting a sticker of a Tuscan sunset over a chunk of actual metal.

joel_clark3725d ago

Handcrafted" handle strips out before you finish installing it... that's exactly what happened to my buddy Mark with his fancy bathroom faucet. He spent a weekend patching the drywall where it leaked underneath.