Wooden head-joint are worked on mostly on turnstile and drills. This pieces of wood are brought here from Central America, Argentina, Africa, Brasil and southern Chile. They are diverse on its pigmentation, hardness and vein, which gives each one of them its identity and particular esthetic. The raiser piece on wooden head-joints can be part of the body or they can be incorporated as a different silver or golden piece, to taste of the musician.
See head-jointsMetal head-joints are hand-made from a copper or silver plaque that is welded in a tube and all mesures are design by Fernando Harms. Weld and modeling techniques of the tubes and lip-plate belong are methods developed in this atelier trough testing and rethinking that resulted in a standard process for this particular models, but they are constantly evolving and improving as each piece is a challenge on it self. This process is more heavy than a wooden head-joint, as it requires a lot more of physical strength, accuracy and craft.
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