The wooden headjoint from China I bought on Ebay showed up today.I haven't spent much time with it but I don't have anything bad to say about it. Fast shipping, it came in a nice case and the wood is very nice. It plays nicely through the 1st two octaves up to D3, although I have to pay attention to the 2nd C and G as they want to go sharp. It starts breaking down at E3, but that doesn't surprise me as it took me several months before I could stay in tune from E3-G3 on my alto and even now if I blow forte those notes go sharp.

I'm not sure what I expected from it. I don't sound better with it than my silver plated headjoint and it will take me awhile to get the full range in tune that I have with my other headjoint (up to G3). But just playing some reels and airs it sounded nice and probably more traditional than my metal head, which is what I wanted. Celtic music is always in the 1st two octaves so the range on this is fine for what I bought it for.

I guess the best part is it stopped me from handing out $3000 for an Eppler headjoint or $2000 for a David Chu headjoint. And if I do try out pricer wood headjoints in the future I'll have something to compare it to.

I took a chnce on it because they had many positive comments from buyers of their wooden instruments on Ebay and I will add my positive comments.

I got an email from Guo today saying they are coming out with alto flutes next year. I'll save my money for one of those.

That sounds like quite an interesting alternative!

How much did you pay for the headjoint and how do you know if it fits or not?

I've been looking at some of these chinese flutes but I have no experience of them. Does yours have a membrane hole covered with paper, or is it just a standard Boehm substitute manufactured from wood?

Standard headjoint made out of wood. The only complaint I have with it is it doesn't fit my flute, so they must have sent me a 25mm bore instead of the 25.4mm bore I ordered. They offered to exchange it, but haven't offered to pay the shipping back-$25. So I'm using plumber tape on it now until I find a tech that can resize it. The headjoint isn't a replacement for my metal one, which is much more responsive and easier to play in tune.