Pleasure to use and well made
First I will say that this press is a pleasure to use.  It is also beautiful and well made.<br /><br />But the packaging left a lot to be desired.  For how expensive it is I was expecting it to be packaged safely in a product box.  Sometimes I like to buy things like this for gifts – I would never buy this for a gift because of the non-existent packaging.  It came in a plastic bag, in an Amazon box with no padding.  I picked the box up from my porch and you could hear it banging around in the box.  You have to hook the handle on yourself, which is easy (except for the fact that the handle was also banging around in the box).  It doesn’t come with any instructions.  I assume the wood should be maintained by some means so some documentation would have been nice.
Rating: 4 stars