French Polishing Techniques - French Polishing Fundamentals Part 7

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  • Опубліковано 22 січ 2025

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  • @UniversalEngineer
    @UniversalEngineer 3 місяці тому

    Fascinating! The “law of French polishing” is eye-opening. It explains why more is not necessarily more. Thank you! 👏👏👏

  • @bryantcochran5065
    @bryantcochran5065 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for this, your shortening the learning curve tremendously.

    • @TheArtOfLutherie
      @TheArtOfLutherie  Рік тому

      Thanks for your comment Bryant! So glad it was helpful!

  • @bigdteakettle8989
    @bigdteakettle8989 11 місяців тому

    Excellent videos and an excellent teacher! I'm not making guitars but because of the quality of these videos, I subscribed to your channel in hopes of learning more.

  • @paullanier8280
    @paullanier8280 Рік тому +2

    Wow , this is very thorough in steps . Thanks for the work you put into the video .

    • @TheArtOfLutherie
      @TheArtOfLutherie  Рік тому

      Hey Paul, thanks so much! Hoping it helps you and a lot of people to get better results with their French Polishing.

  • @luckysevenairammo1217
    @luckysevenairammo1217 Рік тому +3

    I have good luck with well warn old denim for the first few coats. It has a burnishing character to it that softer cotton can't match, i think the hardness of it really forces the pores to fill better and burnishes the wood down better. Then as I approach the finishing coats I switch to softer tee shirt material as it doesn't dig in as much if that makes sense.

    • @carlcarlssen4299
      @carlcarlssen4299 10 місяців тому

      I might have to steal that technique boss. Sorry.

    • @luckysevenairammo1217
      @luckysevenairammo1217 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@carlcarlssen4299Do it ! Denim works wonders 👍🏻

  • @motoservo
    @motoservo Місяць тому

    8:50 wet pads strip, dry pads build. I was with you until you threw in the qualifier after all that which you stated that pore filling is opposite. So, what I'm not clear on, was the statement that the dry pad builds just for pore filling? And opposite for building body coats?

  • @dlsalmonman
    @dlsalmonman 4 дні тому

    Great video! Question - im at the bodying stage snd wonder how long i have to let each application dry for before doing another - it seems like i can just continue to go, as by the time i get to the peg head everything seems rock hard snd i can just keep going - what is your recommendations ? Also, I am following your techniques and advice very carefully and am really getting a beautiful finish on a Ukelele, but it seems I am going through very little of the button shellac. I mixed up a pint of everclear to 4 OZ button lac (2 lb cut) and have been coating/polishing for 2 days now, seem to have the start of a nice body coat, but have gone through perhaps a 1/10th of the pint. So, I guess my question is, how much of the shellac should I expect to end up on the Uke? That will help me figure out when I am done. Thanks!

  • @albertbakx3751
    @albertbakx3751 2 місяці тому

    Bedankt

    • @TheArtOfLutherie
      @TheArtOfLutherie  2 місяці тому

      Thanks @albertbakx3751 ! So happy to know it was helpful and I appreciate the Super Thanks too!

  • @codelicious6590
    @codelicious6590 9 місяців тому

    Im curious, using the French polish technique can you achieve a sense of depth to the appearance of the finish with enough coats? Or wouyld some other method be better to get a sense of depth?

  • @rjrotermund
    @rjrotermund 6 місяців тому

    Thank you! This was very useful. Too much information on the web that just confuses. I've seen people use silk for the outer layer. Do you have experience with this? Does it make a difference vs cotton T-Shirts.

  • @marleytc2003
    @marleytc2003 2 місяці тому

    Can I put shellac over nitrocelulose?

    • @TheArtOfLutherie
      @TheArtOfLutherie  Місяць тому

      Unfortunatley no. I tried it once, just as an experiment; the alcohol ate into the nitro and made a mess.

  • @joeyoungs8426
    @joeyoungs8426 Рік тому +1

    The shape of a small iron.

  • @ToastyTilapia
    @ToastyTilapia Рік тому +1

    I'm just about to french polish for the first time and I just threw out all my old while cotton t shirts when I moved a couple months ago.......................................................

    • @TheArtOfLutherie
      @TheArtOfLutherie  Рік тому +2

      New cotton t-shirts will work, too, just ring them through the wash a bunch of times to soften up the fibers.

  • @Maxime-ho9iv
    @Maxime-ho9iv Рік тому +1

    You went through a huge effort with those videos, but then we come to the most critical part and you don’t explain some part. What is the talc for? You talk about it, quickly, the type to use, but for what? Pore filling? What is it? You don’t show that.
    Also I think a lot of stuff you talk about should be better explained when you actually do it. Mixing shellac? Just do it in front of the camera, it’s small thing, yes ok 3 to 1 ratio everybody understand it, but still it’s much better shown. Same for the magnetic mixer, just show it or lot of other details like adding oil to the shellac itself. Just actually do it. I’m sure so much people didn’t even grab this info because it’s in the oil video and not in the mixing shellac video. Etc.
    It feels like you focused too much on the overall presentation and setup, and the aesthetic of it.

    • @TheArtOfLutherie
      @TheArtOfLutherie  Рік тому +2

      Hi Maxime, You are right, French polishing is a very subtle and detailed art, which is why I created my course The Art Of French Polishing; theartoflutherie.com/french-polishing/? with over 100 videos demonstrating every step of polishing a guitar from start to finish. I put this UA-cam series together to help people who can't take my course but who still want to get some of the information to help them get better results in their work and understand the process on a deeper level.

    • @chipmhandle
      @chipmhandle Рік тому +1

      Hi Maxime, it is a very involved process, which his course covers in great depth and detail. Surely not like painting a wall. He is a great teacher and will not leave you stranded when questions arise.

    • @ThiagoCP
      @ThiagoCP 9 місяців тому

      He did a tremendous job with this series and he put it online for free here on UA-cam. There's a lot of knowledge to take notes and apply. Do you know basic digital marketing strategies? This is a simple 1:1 marketing trick to build a target public interested in this topic. All that he left out in those free videos is on purpose, so you can have all your questions answered in the paid course. He's also offering a free ebook about french polish which is also a strategy to have your email and offer you the paid course.
      This is all VERY BASIC stuff and there's nothing wrong with it in this case because I really think that he went really far above with all the knowledge he shared for free. You probably stumbled upon a lot of people trying to sell you courses and make you a millionaire in a week with very shady marketing strategies on the internet.

    • @steveh2248
      @steveh2248 14 днів тому

      Say dude what knowledge, or tricks of the trade did you give away...... for free?

  • @slidersson
    @slidersson Рік тому +3

    bla bla get to the point and stop blabbing