1905s Cheese Wire Slicer Restoration
In this restoration video I restored an antique butter or cheese slicer from around the year 1905. More about the slicer : this item was used in commercial purpose. It was usually used in shops for the exact purchase of slices of buttercheese or in luxury hotels where pats of butter were served in the morning at breakfast. You can cut one pound of butter into pats for individual servings. The butter or cheese lies in the top and is pushed to the left into the wires while you turn the handle. Another part is located on the same axis as the handle and has a wellstretched wire attached. As soon as the butter is pushed through the rotation of the handle, by the same motion, that wire will cut the butter. The slicer is made from aluminum, steel, brass and cast iron (a pleasure to restore ). The base part has attached a clamp that hold the slicer to the table. After I bought this gem I didn t really find much information about the year of production. I asked some subscribers from the country of ori
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