Watch-wise I currently can't provide too much value to this forum, so I thought I at least share something new I learnt about vintage household products recently for the RWI public to enjoy [emoji4]
So at a friends' place we spent a couple of days at during a holiday trip the Missus enjoyed a vintage Alexanderwerk bread slicing machine and kept on talking about how good it worked compared to our friggin' 5 years old standard household automatic slicer by Krups (90 bucks value or so).
So I decided to briefly learn a bit about these things, bought a 50's vintage machine on eBay for 20 bucks, worked a bit on it and, after learning that this beast now cuts bread like a hot knife would go through butter, sold the Krups for 30 bucks [emoji23][emoji106]
So, here an overview of this particular brand and machine:
Alexanderwerk got founded in 1885 and still exists today. They started off with a mechanical meat grinder and produced a wide range of household and industry/ lab machines since then. Today/ since somewhere around the 80's they only work in the field of medical industry/ lab equivalent.
Here a range of bread slicers over the decades, pictures from google search, no warranty on accuracy of models/ versions
v1 (~1900-1920's):
This one I personally really like. It's so.. manly.. archaic... but since we have kids (7-13 years) this one also shouts 'look Dad, no limbs!' somehow...
v2 (~1930-1940's):
v3 (~1950's):
v4 (~1960's+):
Here please enjoy an oldschool advertisement I found online, from around the 50's/60's:
Now on to 'my' machine: I opted for the v3, since it for me sports the best from both worlds: robustness of true vintage high quality craftsmanship while utilizing quite modern materials (stainless steel etc) but not yet affected of a 'too modern strive for cheaper and more efficient manufacturing' if you get what I mean. This, paired with vintage yet timeless appearance. Decide for yourself
I disassembled all parts, cleaned them thoroughly and oiled the necessary parts. After putting it together it indeed now will become a daily used, darn cool tool in our kitchen
Some pics from about middle of the cleaning process already when I got the idea for this thread ^^
ALL METAL BEZEL! Goal here is to hear no clicks at all though...
And a RWI tribute shot with a BBB:
I hope I didn't waste too much of your precious time, but rather enjoyed this little write-up
All the best,
Evil T.
Sent from my PAM using the RWI PAMatalk mobile app
So at a friends' place we spent a couple of days at during a holiday trip the Missus enjoyed a vintage Alexanderwerk bread slicing machine and kept on talking about how good it worked compared to our friggin' 5 years old standard household automatic slicer by Krups (90 bucks value or so).
So I decided to briefly learn a bit about these things, bought a 50's vintage machine on eBay for 20 bucks, worked a bit on it and, after learning that this beast now cuts bread like a hot knife would go through butter, sold the Krups for 30 bucks [emoji23][emoji106]
So, here an overview of this particular brand and machine:
Alexanderwerk got founded in 1885 and still exists today. They started off with a mechanical meat grinder and produced a wide range of household and industry/ lab machines since then. Today/ since somewhere around the 80's they only work in the field of medical industry/ lab equivalent.
Here a range of bread slicers over the decades, pictures from google search, no warranty on accuracy of models/ versions
v1 (~1900-1920's):
This one I personally really like. It's so.. manly.. archaic... but since we have kids (7-13 years) this one also shouts 'look Dad, no limbs!' somehow...
v2 (~1930-1940's):
v3 (~1950's):
v4 (~1960's+):
Here please enjoy an oldschool advertisement I found online, from around the 50's/60's:
Now on to 'my' machine: I opted for the v3, since it for me sports the best from both worlds: robustness of true vintage high quality craftsmanship while utilizing quite modern materials (stainless steel etc) but not yet affected of a 'too modern strive for cheaper and more efficient manufacturing' if you get what I mean. This, paired with vintage yet timeless appearance. Decide for yourself
I disassembled all parts, cleaned them thoroughly and oiled the necessary parts. After putting it together it indeed now will become a daily used, darn cool tool in our kitchen
Some pics from about middle of the cleaning process already when I got the idea for this thread ^^
ALL METAL BEZEL! Goal here is to hear no clicks at all though...
And a RWI tribute shot with a BBB:
I hope I didn't waste too much of your precious time, but rather enjoyed this little write-up
All the best,
Evil T.
Sent from my PAM using the RWI PAMatalk mobile app
