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How to French polish your guitar. Video 9 of 9.
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- In this video I do the final stage of the glossing up process.
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You are one of the best. Have not seen anyone is this generous to make a series like this. Thank you Pablo.
qvu100 thanks, I am very pleased you enjoyed it.
Pablo, I watched this whole series today in one sitting. I plan to finish Bruce's guitar this way and I hope that i can do justice to it. You have been an inspiration to me and I thank you very sincerely. God Bless you and Dovey.
Mr Requena, Thank you for a very informative series. I have used this series a few times now as a refresher. They are a wonderful resource to the group of amateur builders.
Absolutely fantastic series! Anyone watching all nine episodes knows they have just seen a true master-finisher among luthiers at work and received a teaching from the very best among the best!!
Watching this series of videos has, without a doubt in my mind, been among the best times I've ever spent on UA-cam. Period!
Beautiful work! I am an amateur luthier, and I've built 3 classic guitars and 1 mandolin until now, and always finalizing with french polish. My technique is growing better, but it is still very imperfect and far from your results. Thank you for these videos!
Hello Pablo, first i have to congratulate you for your professional job & explain every detail of your work. I enjoy very much watching the video that you do. I am a guitar player myself & guitar maker when i was about 16 to 26 than i stoped for good. Reason i emigrate to Canada i met a friend who want to offer a job since that time i continuo to do till my retirement. Once again i realy admire you & reminds me back those days making afew guitars that i missed a lot!! Thank U & continue with your success. Now i am 71 years old retired playing with my 4 guitars at home for my pleasure. If i was 35 years younger, i would buy one of yours guitars. I love Instruments!!!!!!
Hello Pablo, first I want to say that your work is amassing, and so inspiring. I got from you the "courage" to take a shot and try to build my first guitar. I have order based on some words you say in one of you video, a classical guitar kit from Maderas Barber... now I wait for the order to come.
I'm not completely stranger to wood working, is been one of my main hobby, I build small boxes for my friends, cigars boxes or jewellery. Always use only natural materials and I build them completely manually, no power tools involved except for drilling holes when needed.
Thanks Pablo!! One more great video! Next guitar i will follow your method! Can you do a video about triming and glueing the bridge? Thanks
Thankyou very much Pablo; so detailed. For a novice it is so much easier to understand what to do when you can see it rather than reading and looking at pictures and your long from video does that so well. Many thanks from Melbourne Australia.
Thank you so much for this wonderful series of videos ❤
Thank you Pablo - Fantastic video series.
Thanks Jon, you might also be interested on my video course series that you can find on onlineguitarmakingcourse.com
@@redkitekk Thank you Pablo - I'll have a look.
What a great series. Thank you so much for sharing your process. I really appreciate it. You do beautiful work. Take care!
Thank-you for this series, you have indeed taken the mystery out of French Polishing and instead of being intimidated by the process you gave me the encouragement to try it as soon as possible. I will refer back to this many times I am sure. Thanks again
I am new to French polishing and learning to polish a guitar at the moment. Your videos have been an incredible help for me. Fantastic series! Thank you very much.
Que preciosidad de guitarra D. Pablo. El color es una maravilla.
Such a fantastic series of videos. I'm a new beginner at french polishing and they have helped me tremendously. I am about to start the process on a guitar I recently stripped of finish. Thanks for your help.
Garry Kelsey you’re welcome
Thank you! Brilliant series. This is a great introduction to French polishing for guitar makers. ¡Gracias, Maestro!
Pablo, thank you so much for publishing this series! I’m currently French polishing my first guitar, and I’ve found your videos to be extremely helpful.
I've really been enjoying your videos. I work on guitars all day and then I watch guitar repair videos late into the night, LOL. Thanks for sharing your skills.
Thank you Pablo. Very much appreciated! 🙏 You’re one of the best.
Im always amazed at how universal woodworking is. I learned to buff out a finish 2 decades ago from a finisher i worked with. Never thought it would be uses by luthiers. So the French polish isn't a difficult process just time consuming. Good to know.
Fabulous series. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. It is certainly appreciated in my shop.
Thank you Pablo! This is great video series, as all others videos )
Keep going!
A very, very good series of tutorials. My new guitar is starting to look amazing already befor spiriting off. Thank you so much for these instructions. I always was very much afraid of doing french polishing - now I have almost done it!!
Thanks a lot for your help, and for your time!
I watched this whole series and did my guitar this way- with the exception of the grain filling. No source for 0000 pumice powder was readily available. It looks pretty good for a newby, if I do say so myself. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
MUCHAS GRACIAS !!!! With your help I will improve my first french polishing on my first classical guitar ! And this is funny I'm french but never did a french polishing yet... By the way mi abuela se llama Manuela Jimenez (Andalusia) ... Muchas gracias senor
I binged all morning. I just couldn’t stop watching until we finally got to the end result. I think with these 9 lessons, I will try it in the 12-string I am currently making. Thanks for the wonderful inspiration maestro.
You are very welcome.
Just in case you are interested I have a complete guitar making course on www.onlineguitarmakingcourse.com
Thank you Pablo your videos have been extremely helpful. Just finishing up on my first Parlour guitar build.
Wonderful! This is the most helpful and comprehensive tutorial series I have seen for French Polishing. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise and talents. I have always been afraid to try French Polishing since so many of my questions were always left unanswered. You have convinced me to finally give this a try.
jimginnyohio, sounds great, enjoy it.
Thanks Pablo I am just about ready to finish my 1st solo build. I’m going to use your method. Thanks for the thorough videos.
So now I know. Thanks for a structured and informative series. Most enjoyable.
You have taken my French Polish to a different level. Thank you!!!
Absolutely fantastic instruction. I’ve watched the series twice , made notes and have started polishing my guitar. I’m grain filling using pumice. The back, sides and head are blackened oak, mahogany neck and spruce top, so quite challenging for my first French polish. With your instruction I’m sure it will go fine. Many thanks. Vin
Buen video Pablo!
I just can keep saying it: great videos!
Thank you so much Pablo, can’t wait to get started on mine
Thank you! A true master...patience IS a virtue!
Wow, that was a wonderful series. Thank you Pablo!
Stunning master craftsman
Many thanks for posting this series - I thoroughly enjoyed the videos and learnt much about improving my own French polishing techniques. I restore musical instruments, mostly concertinas and portable harmoniums, so I'll be applying what I've learnt to my own finishing process in future projects.
Another excellent video from one of the best set of luthier videos on youtube. Thankyou! I'd be afraid to play such a perfect instrument!
Thank You Sir.
Marvellous
Thank you
Thank you Pablo. This was a very good and interesting series about French polishing. I am only on my first guitar build but I decided long time ago that I will use French polish. By the way , all your videos are very good and informative and I watch all of them with great pleasure. Thank you / Christer (from Sweden)
Very interesting an useful instruction series. Thank you for all.
Much appreciation here. A very clear and helful presentation. :)
Thank you so much. The time you have spent to clarify and demonstrate the process is priceless.
Truly wonderful series. Thanks so much, Pablo!
Thank you for showing your methods of work.
Thank you very much for taking the time to share this process in such depth. Inspiring! And what a beautiful guitar!
Pablo thank you so much , your videos have inspired me to try french polishing on some instruments that I have ! The way you work is beautiful and there is no doubt that you are an artist of your trade . I play professionally in Australia and use my spanish flamenco guitar a lot ,when I bought it the factory finish on it was too thick and sounded not so good, so I have sanded it back,....it is now going to be french polished ! Thanks mate!
Pablo, thank you very much for your generosity. I certainly learned a lot just watching your whole series. I'm a luthier trained in the nitrocellulose lacquer school, but since I'm making a lot of classical guitars now, I think that it's more than time to try to french polish these guitars, and maybe (why not?) the other steel string guitars I also made. I'll definitely give them a try. Thanks again, you're such a good teacher.
Thank you so much! I learned a lot from this series! Your guitars look amazing!
I watched every video thank you for your professionalism and attention to detail it is a very pretty guitar
Sir, I have watched all of your videos on this process and have taken many notes from each one. I feel confident that you have given me the details and the information to accomplish a refinishing of a guitar that deserves the effort. Thank you!
Enjoy it.
Thank you very much- you've truly demystified the process and I've now got a method to follow- I'm looking forward to applying it to my current builds!
Peter Olson thanks for your comments.
Much appreciated, a work of art...
Excellent series Pablo. Really appreciate that you took the time to put it together.
Beautiful ! Thanks a lot for this video series, thanks to you I’m working again since 3 days on my old build I let down for years because I couldn’t finish this stage with success. You said French polish isn’t that hard but I find it is for me and my nerves !
Thank you very much Pablo for making this video’s 👍🏻
A true craftsman.
Thank you
Thank you, Pablo, for this very informative video series. You do amazing work! Best wishes!
Thank you Pablo for sharing yor knowledge and secrets. You are great!
aniello iaccarino thank you
Hola Pablo! Muchísimas gracias por esta serie de videos. Los vi el año pasado, pero ahora en cuarentena decidí lustrar una guitarra que estaba rota. Te mando mi cariño desde Buenos Aires, y siento tu compañía durante este proceso de trabajo!
Olá Pablo. Assisti todos os vídeos desta série várias vezes. Estou deixando de trabalhar com o verniz poliuretano, que é muito tóxico, para trabalhar com a goma laca. Quero te agradecer muito por todas essas informações e parabeniza-lo pela sua didática e paciência. Muito obrigado, um grande abraço.
You’re welcome
Gracias Pablo por todo! Nunca utilizaré pulimento de carrocerías, la goma laca a mi entender y a mi manera purista de aplicarla no la necesita. Enhorabuena por el trabajo y por el legado que nos dejas.
Miguel Xorruno estoy de acuerdo contigo en que el pulimento no es realmente necesario, pero lo enseño aquí porque a muchos principiantes a veces les cuesta trabajo conseguir un brillo intenso y retirar todo el aceite, por lo que a la mayoría de la gente que ve estos vídeos le puede ser útil.
También comenté en uno de los vídeos que mi forma de barnizar no es la única y que no quería hacer más que dar unas ideas que le pudieran ser útil a mucha gente que sin ser Barnizadores profesionales quieren barnizar su propia guitarra. Ya me imagino que si tú barnizas a nivel personal no vas a estar de acuerdo con todos mis métodos pero bueno... eso es lo normal, no?
@@redkitekk Has realizado un trabajo fenomenal y sin dudas es el mejor del mundo mundial ahora en la red. Para mi manera de hacerlo lo fundamental es respetar los tiempos de secado, yo como mínimo entre sesión y sesión dejo que la goma laca cure un mínimo de 24 horas o más, y cada vez voy dando más alcohol y menos aceite hasta eliminarlo, paulatinamente en el proceso voy utilizando lijas de 320, 500,800,1200,1500,2000 hasta lograr EL efecto espejo y 3D(profundidad de las vetas).
Always is fantastic your videos, Congrats Pablo, really a big class again!
Appreciate the series, trying to do a cigar box now and was wondering how to get rid of streaks. Guess I always thought the final polished look was part of the running process, had no idea abrasives were used to gloss em up.
Cheers!
Magnificent!! Thank you.
Bravo maestro
Grande Maestro !
Gracias
Hola, lo felicito muy buenos sus videos!! Un saludo grande desde Argentina!!!
Leonado Pas muchas gracias.
Thanks Pablo
Fantastic trabajo Pablo! Felicidades! De hecho muy impresionante!! Estou seguindo sus recomendaciones para el polido francés. Ya estoy en las etapas finales, sin embargo aún ha quedado muchas pequeñas fibras de la muñeca pegado en la guitarra. Entre las manos, utilizo lixadas leves para sacarlas. Hay algún processo o técnica para evitar que las fibras se peguen a la guitarra?? Estoy utilizando un tecido tricoline 100% algodón para la muñeca y internamente algodón especial polir (comprado en tiendas de pintura de autos). Muchas gracias por compartir su conocimiento y trabajo. Un abrazo desde Brazil.
Ese problema es porque estás usando un trapo muy nuevo que suelta fibras. Yo uso la tela de una camisa vieja o algo así y va muy bien.
@@redkitekk perfecto Pablo! Muchas gracias por su pronta atención. Voy a cambiar el trapo por otro ya viejo. Felicidades una vez mas por el magnifico trabajo que haces! Un abrazo
Thank you Pablo for this series of great videos. In the end you say, that the squeze out of the glue from the bridge would be easy to remove... but doesn't the glue damage the shellack? Greetings from Germany
No, it is fine. The glue is water based so you can just wipe it off with a damp cloth.
@@redkitekk Thanks for your quick response. I am really gratetful for your professional help here. It is my first build of an acoustic guitar (OM) an I am not used to use hot hide glue or fish glue for example, but I was encouraged by several people in forums and luthier supply shops to use my Titebond Original for the bridge. So because you can wipe of Titebond with a damp cloth also, I think this will work fine as well!? Of course I masked out the bridge position before starting with shellac, like you did ;-)
I've watched all your 9 videos in one sitting. Very informative and beautifully done!
I also noticed that the fretboard has chipped on the last fret very close to the soundboard. Did you fix that after the polish, or was this particular guitar for educational purpose only?
Hola pablo Muchas gracias para OKC OK usa
感谢您的分享,请问老师,您做这个漆的周期是多长时间?谢谢👍👍👍👍
It takes about a month to french polish a guitar
Hola Pablo, ¿hay versión de tus vídeos en castellano?. Sería fantástico para todas aquellas personas hispanohablantes interesadas en este apasionante mundo que no hablan inglés.
Muchas gracias.
Thanks for the video how many hand of shellac and thickness on the guitar.
Amazing Pablo, this is the first time I do French polishing, and i did well until the last phase where i applied the fine car polish directly to the guitar. It left some marks and i can the guitar is not soft as use to be, and sticky. What would be the problem?
Is it a must put wax after the final process?
I have Ax wax from dr.ducks it is very famous for polishing and cleaning do you think i can use it ?
Thank you again 🙏
Very great series of video!thank you! I have a question..Is it possible to have a matte or satin finish with shellac? Is there any technique?
I don’t think shellac is the best finish to achieve a Matt finish as you will always get a bit of shine. You can have a semy gloss finish which you can get by not going too far with the last glossing part of the process.
Gracias Pablo! exelente tutorial. Una pregunta. yo tengo un guitarra Alhambra 9p que tuvo un percanze y la tapa se le salio un pedazo del nitro... se puede lijar hasta la madera la tapa armonica y hacerle el French polish solo a la tapa? me encantaria saber. y cual serian los numeros de lija que usarias? gracias y saludos desde Australia.
Hola Mauri, Para lo que tu quieres hacer, lo mejor es usar decadente (paint striper). Para evitar dañar la laca del fondo y los aros puedes cubrirlo todo con papel de periódico y cinta de carrocero.
Una vez has quitado la mayoría de la laca con decapante puedes usar papel de lija para limpiar la superficie de la tapa. Yo usaría 180 para empezar e ir subiendo a 240, 320 y 400 hasta dejar la tapa lista para la gomalaca.
Un saludo
@@redkitekk Muchas gracias! con tu instruccion estoy seguro que el resultado final sera como el tuyo. Sera un proyecto para las vacaciones de Navidad, tendre que comenzar buscando los productos por aca. Thanks for your amazing videos, saludos!
I have loved this series! I'm getting ready to finish my first guitar in a few weeks and I'm going to use your method. One thing I would like to see is how you remove the area where you taped off for the bridge. Any tips there?
Matt Geiger it is very simple. What I do is to make a cut in the middle of the tape to be able to start lifting it and the I just pull carefully the tape away from the edge.
@@redkitekk So it separates cleanly at the tape line or do I need to score around the edges too? Thank you so much for your help and great tutorials.
Matt Geiger it separates clean, you don’t need to cut around it.
Matt Geiger it separates clean, you don’t need to cut around it.
Thankyou for the videos, I am definetly getting better at polishing now :) For taping off for the bridge, I tape 1mm less from bridge edges then remove the built up shellac carefully. Is this how you do it? Or do you have a better way?
Lewis D. Lancaster what I do is to put tape on the area where the bridge will go and then work out the position of the bridge on top of the tape and remove the excess tape cutting with a very sharp scalpel around the bridge so that the tape left behind covers just the exact area of the bridge, once the guitar is polished I remove the tape and glue on the bridge in place.
PabloRequena 👍🏻 ok, so the tape is exactly the same size as the bridge and you don‘t remove any shellac that has built up at the edge of the tape. I think I may have been using too many layers of tape, so the build up on the edge of the tape was too high. I will try exact tape size and only one layer next time. Thankyou very much!
Does Chestnut Burnishing Cream work as substitute for Mer car polishing? I can't find where to buy Mer. Thank you!!!
Hola Pablo! Thank you very much for making this videos, you are very generous. I have a question for this process, have you experienced some cloudiness on your finish after the polish compound application? I have tried the 3M hand glaze and my golden shellac turns a little bit dull (I don't know how to explain exactly, but some white-ish reflections showed up). Thank you again. Un saludo desde Argentina.
I have some minor scratches on the rosewood back of my guitar which is satin finished and seems to be French polished... This was the most helpful video series I watched in a while. Now , can I fine sand the blemishes and re-aply alcohol diluted shellac to the back? Maybe 3 layers... I don't mind it being glossy. Appreciate your advice.
Mohamed Aba Yazeed sure, that would be a good approach.
@@redkitekk do you advise I wet sand or dry sand the back and sides before re-applying the shellac?
Mohamed Aba Yazeed I would do it without water.
@@redkitekk ok, will do; what grit do u recommend... I was going to use 1500... Shall I go fiber? Thank you for your most valuable assistance 🙏
Mohamed Aba Yazeed 1500 is a good starting point. You can afterwards use a few different grits up to 3000
Pablo can paste wax be used in place of the car polish? What would Torres have used to achieve a nice glossy finish?
Hello Pablo, as you can see in my previous message, I will soon start build my own first guitar. I have a short question to you and it will be very kind of you to give some opinion.
I see other luthiers applying shellac inside guitar also... some other, including you, left the wood bare and not protected what so ever.
Please give us some insights on the subject, from your point of view. Is this affecting the sound... is good or not advisable to doit...etc.
thanks allot for all you wonderful videos.
Razvan Butiac this is just a personal choice. My guess is that when people polish inside they are trying to minimize the absorption of humidity from the air to keep the wood more stable but I personally feel that this isn’t necessary. Also, if for any reason you have to fix a crack in the future, having polish inside will interfere with gluing internal reinforcements.
@@redkitekk
Thanks allot Pablo. I got the point.
Hi! I have a question. I have followed your very instructive video series about French polishing. Everything has worked just fine until the last two steps: spiriting of and using a silicon free polish compound. The top and back looks very fine but the sides were left with milky white spots in different sizes. They appeared “magically” during this last step and seems to be inside the shellac rather than on the surface. I have tried to sand down a bit and the spots seams too go quite deep in the shellac. Before I try to build up new layers of shellac I wonder if you have any suggestions too what I have done wrong so that I can do it right this time around. I would much appreciate your advice and thank you for your fantastic videos om UA-cam. When the time is right I hope to join one of your classes one day. /Mathias
Mathias de Mare it is difficult to know the reason why but it sounds like if the polishing compound has reacted with the shellac on the sides, perhaps the polish was thinner there.... difficult to know but I think you would probably have to cut back all the way down to the wood and polish the sides again. Sorry not to be able to be more helpful.
I really enjoy the process and I have a question.Can i aply shellac over a guitar which already has varnished?Thanks.
Ο Θεός και η ψυχή τουςThat (applaying shellac over a (industrial varnish) make not great sense in my oppinion... the industrial varnish "deathens" the sound of mostly every guitar...
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Hi Pablo, my respect, I didn't notice how you finished the fingerboard, do you use something for it too?
Yes, I use lemon oil, but any wood quality oil for finishing furniture wood be great.
@@redkitekk Thanks a lot for your reply. I really appreciate your work and your humanity. All the best Maestro!
I must be doing something wrong. I try to duplicate what I have seen in this video and it is a mess. When I try to add multiple layers in one session the lower layer come off and I get patches with most of the finish gone. Any suggestions?
It could be a number of things, you could be loading the rubber too much too often, you could work the polish for longer without reloading and do less sessions. It could also be that you are nor using enough oil.
Wait 24 hours in between sessions.
Thank you very much for sharing your experience with us. May I remove my cuenca brand guitar shellac and replace with french polish since scratches everywhere after using it for 20 years. What sandpaper should I use? 2000 ? I really appreciate your suggestions.
76sprucetop I would remove as much polish as possible with paint stripper and finish cleaning with 240,320 and 400 sandpaper until all the current varnish is gone and then you can start French polish.
Some polishes contain silicon compounds. I've read that if silicon gets into a guitar's timber, then future refinishing can be compromised by "fisheye" blemishes.
Should this be considered in using car polish on guitars?
Richard Christie, sure, try to find one free of silicon, but also, before you re polish it is always a good idea to cut back the surfaces to remove anything that is not shellac.
Yes only use carnuba wax polish