Making my guitar build SHINE
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- What do you reckon, glassy enough?
Got loads of exciting projects in the works, guys, so please do follow along if you fancy!
If you live in London and want to come visit Mark Knopfler's Guitar Collection (and the guitar in the video) the link to register your interest is here:
events.christies.com/Christie...
Things I used to achieve this finish!
SKIL Drill: www.screwfix.com/p/skil-cd1u3...
SKIL Random Orbital Sander: www.skileurope.com/uk/7461aa
Stewmac Buffing Wheel: stewmac.sjv.io/AWQ4R1
The assorted sandpapers were from Mirka and the Buffing compounds are from 3M (I got mine both of mine from a supplier online in the UK, and other bits came from my local paint supplies shop!) Same for my spray gun which is a Devilbliss GPG. I guess these products are stocked by various suppliers based on location - not from the brands themselves - so look up your local shops and support them! :)
Hope this helps. Best of luck in your finishing endeavours and lets put new wisdom in the comments!
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I've said it before, and no doubt, I'll be saying it again soon :) But your meticulous attention to detail and dedication to luthering guitar-making are truly inspiring. How you blend technical skill with artistic expression in your work, especially in the buffing and finishing process, showcases your talent and passion for creating beautiful instruments. The thoroughness of approaching each step, from selecting the wood to the final buffing, is remarkable. Each guitar you create is an instrument and a unique piece of art. Keep up the fantastic work, and thank you for sharing your process and insights with us. And congratulations on the Christie exhibit!
Tips for buffing, Tie your hair back. You do not want to get even one hair pulled into the wheel. Your finish is phenomenal. I do lathe work and you start buffing where I finish, Very entertaining and informational
Came here for the hair comment! Otherwise OMG SO GOOD!
I have an old friend who lost half of his hair (up to the part) by getting it caught in a buffing wheel. Scary.
Had shoulder length hair until an incident with a buffing wheel. It had a 3 hp motor, so it didn’t stop! The draught from the wheel will pull loose hair towards it, increasing the chance of accident. After I got over the shock and pain of having a large chunk of hair pulled out, it was off to the barber’s for a short back and sides.
Not me but coworker lost hair in a mining incident. Rockdrill tore most of scalp off. I tutor on a wood lathe. Long hair gets put up before the lathe gets turned on@@StepDub
Yep. Scary
Impeccable attention to detail. That’s what I think is the hallmark of Tempest Guitars. As a model maker, the quality of any finish is in the prep work. Your insistence on handwork truly is what your benchmark is “the brilliant at the basics” plus it gives you a more intimate connection with your work. You transfer some of that remarkable spirit into what you do. Extraordinary work ❤❤❤.
I truly enjoy watching your enthusiasm as you work. My last name is Tyszler (pronounced “tishler”), which means “carpenter” in Polish. I don’t know how many generations back it goes, but my paternal grandfather and his father were carpenters who mostly built furniture. My grandfather even built an entire summer house all by himself (he was about 4’7 due to malnourishment from poverty, which makes that feat even more incredible). He worked full time for hourly wages as a carpenter who built and repaired furniture in a basement shop in Tudor City, one of the wealthiest buildings in Manhattan (the same place where Leona Helmsley lived). My maternal great-grandparents also owned a furniture factory where my great grandfather built beautiful furniture. You help me understand what my grandfather and great-grandfathers might have enjoyed about their professions. Granted being a luthier requires a different skill set than carpentry, but both professions share a fair bit as well. When I see your true excitement about seeing an idea work or a new technique you tried come out beautifully, it helps me understand the reason they enjoyed carpentry and chosen that profession. Thanks for helping me understand!
Whoever did you dirty is really lucky you're a sweet soul and an absolute professionnal. Total class.
The young lady must be very well connected if she was invited to Christie's. It's a shame she can't find a commoner to buff her guitars.
That koa back is a real knockout! Finishing like this to a high gloss is time consuming, and I appreciate your dedication to detail.
Thanks for the kind words!
As many others have said, your attention to detail is remarkable! And congratulations on the Christie's invitation. Very good choice on their part I believe.
On a more mundane note, just in case you haven't thought about it, cleaning your microfiber cloths is just as important as using them. Sorry if you already know this but remember to NOT wash them with other fabrics as they will pick up the other fabric's fibers which could lead to scratches. Washing them on high is fine but dry them on low to no heat. And whatever else you do, never use any sort of dryer sheets or fabric softeners. They will ruin your cloths. There are also dedicated detergents for microfiber fabrics you might want to look into.
Again, apologies if you already know this but it seemed worthwhile to mention.
I love that you used a "Sandisk" box to support the sand(ing) disk! 😀😀
Hey Daisy. I am a Londoner living is the US. I have built a number of guitars, strictly for myself. There is always one on my bench. They are Allen, not Alan Keys. Just a technicality. The Yanks usually call them Hex Keys. But Yanks use language so loosely it is often hard to tell what they really mean. I love your videos and LOVE that guitar.
Super tip: when sanding, sand with different direction between each grit to make sure that previous scratches are all gone.
love your videos btw
Congratulations for the fabulous finish on that spectacularly beautiful guitar. Also for the invitation to exhibit at Christie's, that really is a mark of respect. One little thing, it is good practice to tie your hair back and use eye protection when using the buffing wheel. I'm always forgetting these things myself, but you are usually exemplary. Great video, thank you.
Thanks so much! Yes, of course - it is tied up in a side pony tail but of course it should be put behind my back. Got too excited.... sorry for making you uncomfortable! I understand the feeling.
I'm a retired woodworker. Remember with all air dried finishes, it takes time for ALL the volatiles to escape the film layer. The finish instructions may say it will be dry in 24 hours or what ever, BUT that does not mean the all the volatiles have evaporated from the film layer, which means the film layer has not finished shrinking. If you polish too soon, you may discover the grain of the wood appearing a month or so later. I recommend doing serious testing of your finishing methods before committing them to the product. Check your samples every week. Happy rubbing and buffing. Great video!!
HAH, that explains why my Gibson SG, has low areas grain appearing. They obviously were more interested in moving it along Quickly. I have the skills to make it right fortunately. Lacquer paints really do need drying time. I have done a couple of those on guitars, and it is tempting to want to get to the finish job. The SG was built in 2019 so I guess enough time has elapsed so when I do it, it should stay to a flat finish.
Greetings Daisy from the U.S. Isn't it wonderful that fine craftspeople are a community 🙂 My family ancestry are Norsemen Scottish Irish and then into England. I'm delighted to see you bring your talent skills up front. Beautiful beautiful wonderful , in a world that tries to be ugly--it is a blessing to have talented people to bring some joy into this world. 🙋♂️.... hey maybe I'll see you again...P.S. I am a huge fan of Dire Straits and JJ Cale who founded that sound.
Shaping, sanding, finishing and polishing.
The zen moments amongst the chaos and clamor of building.
Play safe n take care.
So much like bodywork on a car!
Dig it!
Beautiful work. Just a tip......variable speed random orbital sander.used in polishing automotive clear coats, and always use a sanding block, finally...be good to your Mother🙂
As a painter of automotive (1 drop) of detergent in a bucket of water for wet sanding helps to lube while sanding plus helps remove any wax for if you need to repaint
Welcome back Daisy! You've been missed!
You don't need the background music. I like the sound of the sanding and your voice.
beautiful work. Make sure the buffer goes off the edge of the body, if you hold it with the wheel dragging onto the body it can grab it out of your hands.
I've done this sort of work using automotive rubbing compound--you can work up from 'red' rubbing compound to 'white' polishing compound and even 'clearcoat' polishing compound. Ifthis isnot fine enough, Maguire's auto polish has a very fine abrasive in it. My Koa guitar looks about this good. (I did not make the guitar, but I polished it up from Satin to it's current hand-rubbed
condition.
Happy new year and congratulations on the Christie exhibit. Very satisfying to see the finish come up on the koa. Beautiful work.
Hey! Love the work, some advice from someone who used to do a ton of finish work:
For wet sanding, wet sanding is way better, after the wash coats you ought to go from dry sanding to wet sanding. Unless there's a ton of orange peel or overspray, wet sanding is more ideal.
A hard block is handy. 3M sells one, there's tons out there if otherwise. Most have a hard rubber sole of sorts, and makes the job easier.
For buffing. Hold the upper and lower bout of the guitar like you would your belly after a massive meal. Keep it infront of you, and tons of soft mats on the floor to catch an eventual slip.
When you buff, use your hips as well. There'd a video of a guy in the Gibson Memphis shop who turned it into a dance, and that helped me get started with buffing.
Hope that helps.
I have missed you. Welcome back.
That flamed Koa is absolutely stunning. I'd be enraptured by it and not be able to work either.
re: finishing - Highline guitars has a good explainer on the sanding side. The lower grits are more for leveling the finish and getting rid of orange peel. Work in quarters and use a light to look for still-shiny (ie low areas) in the finish. When it's uniformly satin, you're good to go.
You're more than expert with the higher grits - but Highline will change the sanding direction with each grit - you can go 90 degrees or even 45 depending on what the jump in grits is and how many levels of grit you'll be using.
For final buff - Crimson guitars has good videos on that. Main takeaway is to always buff from the middle towards the edge and rotate the guitar to allow that to happen. Hands cradle the guitar from the bottom so the guitar is pushing more into your grip. It is apparently safer and lessens that chance that the wheel grabs the guitar and slams it into the floor.
dude, im 24 and just starting to explore opening a studio/shop of my own (in leatherwork ) and i have to say: you are SUCH an inspiration! i really look up to you, you are talented, and passionate, and interesting and funny on camera- all the love and effort you put into your work really shows! Thank you for sharing your journey, i wish you the best!!!
dude? Ummm....dudette? Whatever, she's inspirational and gives my muse duende'!
In one of your previous videos you talked about outsourcing the finishing because you did not feel comfortable doing it yourself. Too bad it was not a perfect solution, but perhaps it was for the better as it forced you to push yourself and just pick up the skill yourself. I am very happy for you for that! It is lovely to see this kind of development through your videos. You reason your decisions so well, and we all learn while watching. I am a hobbyist woodworker myself, and in the process of building my first acoustic guitar. Finishing will be coming some time this year, so thank you so much for sharing your experiences on this topic too!
I am very happy that you are back. I also appreciate the fact that you have been busy creating such an exquisite masterpiece. You are the future and your work will continue to inspire for a lifetime.
Thank you for the lovely comment
Great job, the wood is stunning, watching this makes me want to build another guitar. Just a tip I use when finishing. Use a spare platten from the orbital sander to hold the abrasive disks (instead of the sandisk box). Using the pads by hand as you do at the begining can lead to uneven patches especially on corners but the platten keeps it flat so you" skim off" only the high points. Also try non spongy pads for the same reason especially on the earlier grits. Another tip is Korean edgeless microfibre cloths you can get them from car polishing suppliers.
The key to spraying is using top quality spay thinners and getting the mix correct. I’ve just done a Telecaster style neck and didn’t need any heavy rubbing down, only a light hand rub with polishing oils and tripoli powder. Talc and polishing oil also works. Orange peel means either the mix is too thick or it’s being applied too quickly.
6:20 I see what you did there with your SANDisk box. xD You thought nobody would notice.
Omg hahahaha
Your Passion for wood, eye for detail and craftsmanship drive me to the idea of restoring a late 19th century Italian guitar which came to my possession. I’m just a guitarist but I know a luthier in the Netherlands who gives workshops. I’d like to experience the same joy you seem to have😊
Thanks for the lovely comment!
Beautiful work on that guitar Daisy! HNY and have a good time in Africa! 👍👍🎸🎸💥💥
Tip - don't know if this has already been said, but i always understood that it was best to work with the polishing wheel turning away from you, that way if it were to be caught, it would only pull the material to the ground as opposed to swinging it into your head and then across the room
Thanks for making these videos! very nice to watch with a cup of coffee in hand.
Thank you for watching!!!
i got hold of a 69 epiphone texan last year, it was in a state so it wasn't the usual mortgage price but i got a local luthier to straighten the neck out and refret - it had been used fretless at some point! - anyway. the front had been hand varnished as well, so that was totally horrible but i sanded that off no problem, but the smooth surface it left was blotchy and i had no idea why or what i could do about it, so being bored i sanded the rest of the finish away and now i'm left with a really, really nice looking piece of spruce, nice colour, decent enough grain, nice sounding guitar.
trouble is it's bare wood. i tried various filler potions, gun oil, tongue oil, and numerous coats, but i still have bare wood - it just seems to soak up everything. the real head scratcher though is the fibers of the spruce stand up, if you run your hand over it you can feel the "hairs", i have a "hairy" guitar. so that's my problem, how can i get a smooth surface when the fibers are prominent, and can i wax or french polish it as i don't want to spend on a luthier and i don't want to take the bridge off....
I wouldn't have guessed watching someone sanding and buffing a guitar would be the perfect start of the day, but here we are.
You asked for tips so I’ll suggest that I generally find it quite a bit easier to hold the guitar horizontally rather than vertically as you were doing. I like to start on the center line and move towards the edge, doing one continuous pass in a sort of zig zag pattern, coming back from the edge into a slightly different line, out to the edge etc, til I’ve covered one half of the back. Then I’ll flip it and do the same to the other half to give the first half a chance to cool off.
Next pass I’ll return to the first half, but instead of going center line to edge, I’ll go from the neck to the butt, change lines and come back, til that’s half is done, flip and do the other side, and just keep flipping and changing patterns til it’s done.
Holding it horizontally is also a lot easier on your back and knees, as when you hold it vertical you need to accommodate a range of motion up and down of 20 inches for an average guitar at every pass, whereas if you hold it horizontally, you only need to accommodate for an 8-10 vertical range of motion if you start at the center line, and the 20 inch range of motion from neck to butt can be accommodated with hip rotation which is a lot easier than using your back to go up and down the center line when held vertical.
Also there’s less of a chance of catching an edge at the waist when held horizontal as the wheels are always running off the edge. I don’t know if you’ve ever launched one but it’s quite an experience when you do, lol. Production used to come to a halt for a moment of silence when the unmistakeable sound was heard throughout the factory. Most of us only ever did it once, lol. The only time I hold it vertical is when doing the sound hole edges.
The only other thing I can think of is that the liquid polish stage may not be necessary. We used to do basically 1000 grit level, 1500 level, then straight to the buffer Menzera 16 then 18. Mind you that was on big industrial machines with 5hp motors and 6x16 buffs running at a terrifying speed rather than a Shop Fox, but it seems to me you should be able to go from 3k to the buffer, but I’m unfamiliar with the finish you’re using so…
Anyway, my .02 since you asked…:)
Wrapping abrasive around a sponge is a good method. It stops the paper from digging in.
Always a pleasure! The Africa trip sounds very exciting and I look forward to your videos about it.
Two things I've learned in my 72 years on this planet Daisy is No.1 There are no satisfactory shortcuts to excellence and No.2 No one will care as much as you do, so do it yourself! Nice job and deep down you ALWAYS knew you had to learn to do this for yourself👍🏻
Did you send me a message about telegram Daisy?
Fantastic finishing! You made that woodgrain look like a mirror made of silk! (If that makes any sense.)
18:02 This is going to sound weird, but try dancing with the guitar at the buffing wheel.
Before the Martin Guitars factory got robotic buffers, the polishing/buffing workers treated the guitar like a dance partner at the wheel. With the guitar body between the wheel and their own body, they'd hold it mostly at the waist and lower bouts, resting the tail a little on top of their thigh, and would do a dance that looked like a combination of the twist and Elvis' moves. The method let their body/hips apply the pressure and direction, while their hands mostly just kept the wheel from yeeting the guitar!
Also, please tie your hair up or put it all under hat at the buffing wheel! 😬
(Many years ago, I worked on a factory floor with long hair. Even with industrial machines that have instant emergency stops and proximity sensors, you don't want hair hanging down around anything spins or pulls!)
This is BRILLIANT! I love how this is explained, it's such a fabulous way to think about it. Thank you for sharing. I find dancing also helps me radius sand stuff... and yes, RE hair, apologies all! It's tied up but should be tied up better... next time.
I have to say that when I saw your reflection in the wood, I was very impressed 😊
very nice work, I would be scared to play it seeing the amount of work you put in making it flawless. all the best from Bristol.
They make microfiber polishing rags without the stitched border around the edge, to eliminate chance of scuffing from the coarse threads.
When working on flat surfaces, have you ever tried using a sanding block? 3M make some hard rubber ones that are often used for automobile finishing. Cheaper and more satisfying to use than the foam sanding pads. Also, if you can find a fluorescent work light that's maybe a foot or two long that you can maneuver by hand, they're useful for checking to see if your finish is smooth/flat.
👍 Bright and shiny.
Or, as I like to say, shight and briny. 😊
Awesome work young lady.
Spray finishing is an art form all on it's own. I usually find it takes me as long to get the finish right as it does to do all the other build steps combined. Looks like you've got it nailed though, nice work
It's tricky isn't it! Thanks for the comment
I love all your videos, Africa how exciting !!! 🌹❤️🤗
When I first started at Guild some 45 years ago an old timer there impressed upon me, "You don't sand the scratches! You sand away everything above the scratches so don't scratch the dang thing"! All new hires get to start with sanding!
A Beautiful guitar !!
It turned out beautiful!
GREAT JOB. A TRUE PROFESSIONAL
You are not doing anything wrong at all, one small thing would be on how you mark which cloths are for which compound, as you need to be certain next time on which is which.
I really loved that you did it all by hand, I do it like that as I prefer the sound of manual woodworking as compared to power tools.
Have you thought of doing a french polish? (alcohol with shellac) No modern guitar luthiers use it, but any decent violin maker still uses this and only this method (ok, some used oil based methods) as it gives a lovely finish like this, but you don't have to remove material like you are doing by sanding an polishing. Here you only add small layers and keep doing that until all of the wood pores are sealed, it is way thinner than a plastic varnish which helps sound quite a lot with the tone.
It does require periodical maintenance, but hey, maybe this is one of the reasons why violin luthier shops are always busy :)
Shellac for me is the best finish. I’ve a Collings OM1 with Shellac and it sounds so much better than the standard guitar with nitro. It’s about as thin a finish as you’ll get. The downside is that it’s difficult to apply, needs a long time to dry between coats and it allegedly doesn’t offer the same level of protection as nitro, or poly, although my guitar is as hard as anything else I’ve got. It crazily labour intensive which makes it very expensive. The upcharge for shellac on my OM1 was £1800 in 2010, so imagine what it would cost at today’s prices. Unsurprisingly Collings don’t do it anymore.
Hi Daisy. Sorry to hear 🙉 you had a lot of trouble 😵💫 with your out sourcing spray job.There is a saying that if you want a job done better do it yourself 🤠. At least you can spray and finish now , you are your own best critic. I find when I spray fresh air always helps , you can set up a vacuum extractor near your spay job and Ultra violet light helps to dry sprayed objects out better it adds an element of hardness to the finish. Anyway 😊 Happy 😁 spraying and finishing.All the Best for 2024. Take care. John.
Thanks so much for the comment :)
Happy new year Daisy.
Beautiful work!
Always a pleasure to watch you work!
Fabulous!🎉
Brothers in Arms .... my very first SCUBA video in the Caribbean - over 20 years ago - was to Dire Straits ....
(not only a great tune for underwater video - but would be awesome on a drive in Africa ...👍)
Wow, lovely work.
Hi Daisy,
as you see my name on the top of this (hopefully), i think I`ll start to introduce myself just by telling you what I did and sometimes still do. Well, I`m from Germany and I`m about to be 72 years of age in March. I live in small (kind of) town about 50 kilometers away from Colone. I was born in a place called Wuppertal wich is about 70 kilometers from here. There I was running my own workshop, sales and repair. I closed the shop in 2014 after about 26 years. Before I had it I worked as a Guitarteacher and this is what I`m still doing as well as I had my own studio and worked as a musician. I also have my skills in the audioelectronics field...
I still do some woodwork from time to time and I keep playing as a Blues-guy.
Like you I love my tools, I developed some of those allso which was fun too.
Anyway, I don`t want to get on your nerves by telling how good, skilled or what ever I am.
I really like to thank you instead. I like what you are posting and all the "freaky" (positive meaning) ideas that you came up with -forging a knife out of giutar strings- and so on.
Now back to your work ... In case of polishing a guitar I often did not have the time to work me through the whole process you`re describing here. So I went like this:
I did the best woodjob I could, cleaned the instrument wery carefully and put on a mixtue of a basecoat and porefiller. After letting that set and get really dry, I did a hand sanding to a grid of about 400.
After that I did a fine coat of nitro-cellulose- laquer to smoth out if there was still some sanding scratches or the like. After another sanding with a 400 grid or a very fine steel wool rubbing, I did agood layer of laquer let it dry and did another one. Now the complete layer of laquer was quite thick and I had a serious basis for real fine sanding to an amount which i liked. After that I used grinding compound or polish( I do not remember the correct name but you will find it on the internet) of the 3M- brand wich they build that way that it`s getting finer and finer during the polishing process. I finished with a light waxing with Carnauba wax.
Sometimes I did an alternate process by aplying a differend material by thhe brand Clou : they call it
"Swabbellack", its from Germany, maybe you have to look it up on the internet. This is really good to work with specially when it comes to necks or other guitar parts that need some extra protection. This coating is also very good for bcks and sides whendoing kind of a french polish for the top.
normally you`re doing the french polish with shellac which is great. -But you can also do it with what they call " Zellulose Mattierung" (also Clou brand). This material is much easier to aply than shellac, dries really fast and isn easy to get a high gloss polish with. Just follow the descripition which comes with it.
I hope this may help in one way or another. You can contact me any time if there ar any questions. Keep on doing your stuff and stay healthy
Another great video Daisy! I said out loud at the same time as you "Never Again" when you were talking about the finisher. lol! I've enjoyed spray finishing, and doing high gloss is the hardest and least forgiving way to finish, but when done right looks great.
Great channel 👍🏻
gorgeous.
Beautiful
I’ve been building nylon finger-style guitars for almost 30 years.
I only French polish. You get an amazing glow that I think looks better anyway.
There are acceptable cosmetic irregularities with French polishing and it’s beyond safe, easy to learn.
I was never a fan of lacquer.
I’ve seen a lot of videos about polishing and always the back which is the easiest to do.
Btw: Most professionals
Nice shine though. A lot of work.
Beautiful finish, thanks.
Fantastic work, incredible finish! Respect to you!
I was hoping to see some wetsanding! (It really increases the longevity of the abrasives, and saves money in the long run). Also, use of a rubber backed sanding block (they come in a multitude of shapes) will allow you to use other, more cost efficient sand paper.
The results show the detail and care you put into your craft, love it!
Well done on learning how to do it yourself, no one will care as much about your project as you will! Beautiful work!
Nice looking axe, Daisy. I hope your little exhibition at Christie's is a resounding success!
Daisy it is so great to see you again. I always look forward to seeing your videos. I hope all is well for you.
@@Daisy_Tempest how can I do that
Congratulations.
You do gorgeous work! I have always wanted to try making instruments. I'm a woodcarver and sometimes cabinet maker, knife maker, tool restorer, so I have some tools that'd help, and probably some knowledge, but I'm also a bit deaf, so even if I built an instrument I'd never know whether it sounded good or not.
Thank you for the video and the confidence to try new things. Wishing nothing but the best of all for you this year.
Definitely the buffing wheel is the cats meow. The icing on the cake. Bought one, but I just haven't had the time to set it up and build a base for it. Polished a neck last year by hand, that was an adventure. Think I bought just about every grit of sand paper known to man kind. Matador up to 12,000 grit. Lol. Plus, the micro mesh pads which go to 1 micron. Think after I wet sanded it to that kind of level. The ultra fine 3m polish was actually dulling it out? Was strange that my finest sandpaper was finer than my finest polish? The polishing wheel is just the highest shine possible. Probably could jump from 5,000 grit straight to the buffing wheel and be fine. Ultra fine polish or 12,000 grit might be a little overkill if you are going to use a buffing wheel. Same time over reliance on the buffing wheel is bad. Like jumping from 1,000 grit straight to the buffing wheel. It will shine but you'll see a lot of orange peel. So it is still definitely good to be meticulous about cycling through the grits to at least 5,000 grit before buffing. Looks great. That wood is very beautiful. Heard bolt on necks are actually better than glued on. They last longer, have less issues, and resonate better. Super nice build, very beautiful. Wish we could hear a sound bite of it.
Like to start at a 1,000, too. Some people say 600. But that is too rough. It leaves scratches that never come out and it too aggressively removes material. 1,000 is good starting point and I don't try to get all the orange peel off on the first grit. Knock it down pretty good and by 1,500 it should be close to gone. Definitely by 2,000, then 3,000 and 5,000. Taking the minimal material off through the whole process is best.
That’s a beautiful finish! Well done for learning how to do this yourself!
Safe travels to you! Excited to see the new content.
Magic work Daisy, looks fantastic, all the best.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I look forward to the next episode in "The Tempest, A Luthier life & adventure :)
Happy new year Daisy
Fantastic work! Congrats on the show on 24th!! Thanks for sharing.
Stunning result on that finish! Congrats on the Christie's gig, what a great opportunity! Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks Daisy! great video once again, Happy New Year!
Love watching your videos. Spent a lifetime making jewellery, now (age 79) building my second carved arch-top ukulele. I've learned a lot from you. Tip hammered into me re: polishing...always buff TO an edge, never FROM it. If you polish from an edge the buff will snag the job and smash it against the nearest wall. I know to my cost!😟
Gorgeous wood.
Very satisfying to hear and watch! It is also a great workout too. The finish looks fantastic!
Always good content Daisy
well done love
Welcome back!
Good to see you back and look forward to this years content! Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Well done kiddo that looks gorgeous.
One of the main things about finishes both Paint and clears is to do the initial sanding with more firm pads behind the papers. Then term is called block sanding or blocking. That makes the surfaces super flat. It will even out runs or drips or wavy looks from un even spraying. then as you sand more and more pay SUPER close attention to how things are going on corners or edges where sides meet. That will be the most common places to burn thru the finish thus setting you back to square one.
Excelent, and really nice to see you for staet the year, giveme an impulse to work!!
That has to be so satisfying building a guitar of that quality. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful work and beautiful to see you again! No worries about being busy, I enjoy the little updates on Instagram in the meantime! Thanks always for sharing! I am appreciating the beautiful wood on my modest collection of guitars this morning...and my spalted maple drum box! Congrats and good luck at Christie's!!! Well done!
I’m enjoying your videos Daisy and your narrative as you explain the processes, thank you.
I so deeply appreciate your beautiful work. It really shows that you're very passionate and talented.