Great Videos Kathy. What do you do when you get rosewood stain on the white purflings with the first application.Especially when pore filling. I applied 2 coats of shellac along the bindings before the pore filling but it still seem to stain the pufling and I had to scrape each time. Is this how ( scraping) you keep the white.....um white? Ron
I seal the bindings with shellac (1-lb cut), too, before doing the pore filling, but didn't have any problems with any staining. Maybe I stayed away from the bindings when I was pore filling? After the pore filling was done and I started to do the seal coats and subsequent bodying coats, it protected the purflings from any staining.
Great video, Kathy, and lovely to see you on TH-cam, after having admired your website for years! By the way is that a cat purring in the background from time to time?
Hi, Robert! I just went back to watch the video, and I don't know what that sound is!!! :) It's definitely not my cat, because she never comes in the guitar workroom while I'm working --- though she does sit on top of my computer keyboard when I'm trying to work on the computer, and often is purring then! I'm thinking it's either my camera making weird sounds while it's recording, or perhaps I had the table fan going while I was working (it was in June or July, I think, so it tends to get hot in there). Anyway...I just love the French polishing process, and I'm missing it. I haven't actually been building since then....too busy with other stuff going on this past year! But I have a violin that's been sitting in my workroom for 19 years (!!!???) just waiting for me to get back to it...
You use both, but for different purposes. You use the olive oil all along as a lubricant (a dot on your pad when you feel you need it). The walnut oil is not used as a lubricant, but a little ways into the process, you put a few drops of walnut oil into your shellac mixture; it ultimately polymerizes into the shellac: tbguitars.com/french-polishing/
I'm afraid I'm not clear on what you mean here. Could you explain what you're saying here in another way, or in more detail for me? I'm not clear on what you mean by "the first touch of your polishing the wood". :)
Great Videos Kathy. What do you do when you get rosewood stain on the white purflings with the first application.Especially when pore filling. I applied 2 coats of shellac along the bindings before the pore filling but it still seem to stain the pufling and I had to scrape each time. Is this how ( scraping) you keep the white.....um white? Ron
I seal the bindings with shellac (1-lb cut), too, before doing the pore filling, but didn't have any problems with any staining. Maybe I stayed away from the bindings when I was pore filling? After the pore filling was done and I started to do the seal coats and subsequent bodying coats, it protected the purflings from any staining.
Kathy are your bottles of product not contaminated by the glub method you are using? Kinda like backwash!
Nope. If shellac accumulates on the screwtop part of the bottle, you just clean it up after each session with a cloth and alcohol.
Great video, Kathy, and lovely to see you on TH-cam, after having admired your website for years! By the way is that a cat purring in the background from time to time?
Hi, Robert! I just went back to watch the video, and I don't know what that sound is!!! :) It's definitely not my cat, because she never comes in the guitar workroom while I'm working --- though she does sit on top of my computer keyboard when I'm trying to work on the computer, and often is purring then! I'm thinking it's either my camera making weird sounds while it's recording, or perhaps I had the table fan going while I was working (it was in June or July, I think, so it tends to get hot in there). Anyway...I just love the French polishing process, and I'm missing it. I haven't actually been building since then....too busy with other stuff going on this past year! But I have a violin that's been sitting in my workroom for 19 years (!!!???) just waiting for me to get back to it...
You mention olive oil but I recall that Tom uses walnut oil? Have you tried walnut, do you find olive oil better?
You use both, but for different purposes. You use the olive oil all along as a lubricant (a dot on your pad when you feel you need it). The walnut oil is not used as a lubricant, but a little ways into the process, you put a few drops of walnut oil into your shellac mixture; it ultimately polymerizes into the shellac: tbguitars.com/french-polishing/
the first touch of your polishing the wood is exactly how do not start it.
I'm afraid I'm not clear on what you mean here. Could you explain what you're saying here in another way, or in more detail for me? I'm not clear on what you mean by "the first touch of your polishing the wood". :)