The hunt's nutcracker, I bought is a great machine 2010 for cracking black walnuts or any hard nuts, and it even got better with a new dayton motor now attached I bought in June. Best black walnut, butternut and hickory nut cracker I have ever owned. It operates smoothly and allows very precise nut cracking. This is an old school device that makes sweet work of a hard job...breaking those hard black american walnuts.