Please be aware of the enormous rise in the population of guitar builders in the last several decades - especially in the USA.
We, as saxophone players, are also blessed by the number of craftspeople that have committed to making mouthpieces - again, predominantly in USA.
Not sure on the guitar stuff, as I'm definitely not familiar, but I would consider very few mouthpieces to be hand made now a days. there are a couple I can think of that are still cast or molded and completely hand done, but most everything is CNC produced and then "hand finished". That hand finishing can range from 20 minutes to an hour in most cases. There are exceptions.
Not saying they can't play really really well or be great pieces, but the process I know about these end plugs is that everything is hand done even the stock that he uses is purchased from a guild of artists that produce these.
I definitely see this as more of a form of art than most mouhpiece makers now a days. Again, there are exceptions to what I'm saying. I just believe truly hand made things in the sax world are more rare.
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