The best grinding I ever got was from some retailer that used to sell via Yahoo Shopping. I'd bought some really great stuff there pretty cheap, including ACF espresso cups, although I ordered again and got something made in China that was nowhere near the same quality. But I was intrigued because they had a hand crank grinder with a drawer. It was small and maybe about 4 inches wide (couldn't tell with the photo) and I maybe got out about 4 tablespoons of a fine grind in about 2 minutes. It wasn't expensive, but it was more or less a toy. The speed of the grinding was about that of pepper grinder.
However, I brought it to work once to make espresso for our office's manual espresso machine. I got comments about it from European coworkers who thought it was cute, and said that kind of machine is extremely uniform in its grind albeit slow.
