Here we'll look at the steps involved in my "Floridation" process.  I take a modern Otto Link Super Tone Master and make it play much more like the Florida vintage STMs. 

We're going to go through a typical mouthpiece refacing here. This is a modern Meyer that I did for one of London's top session pros, Jamie Talbot. He still uses it all the time. This one dated from the 70s or 80s I think, the dimensions haven't changed since then but the rubber used to be harder than it is now. With a modern Meyer the aim is to make it play more like the "New York, USA" vintage of Meyer.

OK, so I'm assuming you've noticed the prices of vintage mouthpieces lately, especially Otto Links.  Are they really that much better than modern ones?  In a word, yes.  This picture is why:

Results are in from the Mouthpiece Challenge. how did we do?

Can you tell the difference between a metal and a hard rubber mouthpiece?  I made some identical mouthpieces so we could find out...