Pinecone Pinion grinder

At this year's Specialty Coffee Association tradeshow, I met Ilan Maimon, and after a few minutes talking to him I could tell he's the grinder guru. I've always been kinda fuzzy about grinders and burr sets and RPMs, and what combination of things is best. But Ilan knows.  A while back, I was offered distributorship of a line of grinders called HeyCafe. I had their entire lineup shipped to the DoubleShot and we put them through their paces. Unfortunately I wasn't particularly satisfied with the build quality of the units, so we declined the offer. Come to find out, Ilan is the founder of this company. He built HeyCafe in China, aimed at producing a cheap alternative, mostly for the Asian market. He's also worked for Hemro Group, designing and building Ditting and Mahlkonig grinders. So we got the inside scoop on all that.  But the most exciting thing is the fact that he recently started a new grinder company in Switzerland called Pinecone, and this is their first release, the Pinion. I