Being dumb is never easy, but it does make doing stuff a lot more rewarding. Like this week, I was very glad to be dumb. I made a coffee maker.

If you are like me, you get headaches when you don’t drink coffee. Making this was the most productive thing I have probably ever done, and it was out of necessity. If I did not make this coffee maker, I would die.

But along came HomeMade Modern, right before I was about to die because I had no other way to get coffee unless I made a coffee maker. This site is insane. The maker, Ben Uyeda is the epitome of the perfect human being; so he sucks. The stuff he makes up is simple, modern, and something you won’t find in a gas station. No offense to gas stations, I personally have found sweet NASCAR hats and alligator-skin belts there and for that I am forever grateful. This probably won’t be the only time I will try out his DIYs.

So this is it: The EP53 Coffee Maker. I have no idea what ‘EP53’ means, but that’s okay! Ep53, Ti-83, P90x, it don’t matter! Obviously, it looks amazing on this because a perfect human being made it and that is what happens when they touch things. So I gave it a shot.

Here is what you need:

2 feet of 1/2 inch copper pipe copper fittings (1/2 inch) 2 T-Fittings 3 Elbows 2 End Caps Glass Funnel (I got 100mm top diameter base, but that was much too small. I would suggest a 150-250mm which was out of stock when I looked) Steel Wool (This is to clean and buff the copper, but I just used sand paper and a washcloth after I sanded it) Super glue (I haven’t used it yet because the fittings fit well enough so far, but this is for the joints to hold fast) Chemex coffee filters (preferably cone-shaped) Oreos (any snack will do, but I found that the Oreos worked really well. Allowing me to pop them in while sanding copper)

Tools:

A Copper cutter

You can find everything except for the glass funnel and the Chemex filters at Home Depot. I found the glass funnel on amazon, but if by chance you have some weird local lab store, then you could probably get it there too.

This project looks hard, but it actually was pretty dang easy. But it did make me feel like a man. Cutting copper. Sanding copper. Smelling like copper. Eating Oreos. This coffee maker works best for 1-2 cups of coffee. And depending on the size of your mug, I found the least amount of pipe you should use is 24 inches. This allowed me to do math, which was very challenging. This worked best:

This was proportional to what I needed, and I probably would not switch this up if I were to do it again. It was an ideal size. And roughly a foot tall once you get the glass funnel on it.

Math!

In the end, I was a happy man. If you want, I would be willing to make this again. For you. Not for free too!!!

message me and we can negotiate prices;)

But otherwise get on board and make one of these suckers with the link below.

EP53 Coffee Maker