I design the machines I wanted to own.
Before Kinetic I ran a company making mechanical products in a very different industry — gears, cams and levers — and that is still the kind of design that interests me.
I like machines that are simple and complex at the same time, where refining one small detail changes how well the whole thing works.
What could have been built a hundred years ago — designed today.
That’s the brief I give myself. Take the thinking and the style of now, and build it the way the best machines of a century ago were built: in metal, with mechanisms you can see and understand. It is a harder problem than reaching for a microcontroller and some code, and I find it a lot more interesting.
The pay-off isn’t just how it looks. A lot of those hundred-year-old machines still work today, and I expect mine to as well. There is no Wi-Fi to drop out and no touchscreen to die. Any maintenance a Kinetic machine ever needs can be done at your kitchen table with ordinary tools.
None of this is cheap to buy. Over the years it pays for itself many times over, and it leaves you with more time to enjoy the coffee.
Even if you never buy one, I hope you find the machines interesting.
Three rules.
- Genuine materials316 stainless, 6061 aluminium anodised and bead-blasted, hardwood. Nothing coated to hide what it is.
- Mechanical, not electronicGears, shafts and flywheels do the work. No motors, no screens, no firmware.
- Serviceable at homeEvery part is visible and reachable with ordinary tools. Replace the part, not the machine.