French Polishing Techniques - French Polishing Fundamentals Part 7

[@UniversalEngineer]

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

[@bryantcochran5065]

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

[@TheArtOfLutherie]

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

[@paullanier8280]

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

[@TheArtOfLutherie]

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

[@luckysevenairammo1217]

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]

I might have to steal that technique boss. Sorry.

[@luckysevenairammo1217]

​@@carlcarlssen4299Do it ! Denim works wonders 👍🏻

[@bigdteakettle8989]

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.

[@motoservo]

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?

[@rjrotermund]

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.

[@albertbakx3751]

Bedankt

[@TheArtOfLutherie]

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

[@codelicious6590]

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?

[@marleytc2003]

Can I put shellac over nitrocelulose?

[@TheArtOfLutherie]

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

[@ToastyTilapia]

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]

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

[@joeyoungs8426]

The shape of a small iron.

[@Maxime-ho9iv]

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]

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 KZbin 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]

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]

He did a tremendous job with this series and he put it online for free here on KZbin. 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.

[@slidersson]

bla bla get to the point and stop blabbing