OK, I’ve spent the last week putting many coats of shellac on my guitar project. These have all been base coats. French Polishing the guitar is rather tedious but not very strenuous. Each coat is super thin so it takes a lot to get a good cover over the wood. After about 15 coats, the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Finishes’
French Polish, My midway point
OK, I’ve been progressing on my french polishing work. Each coat doesn’t take very long or really much work at all. The problem is it needs a zillion coats (ok, maybe closer to 12-18) and you have to wait a few hours between each coat. I’ve progressed up to 7 coats. My approach has me [...]
Finish Update
I finished the epoxy pore filler. From a texture point of view, I believe I have accomplished the job. From a color point of view, I have an uneven tone. I need to explore pore filling more though I’m not sure I have the time to do it on this guitar. The neck and headstock [...]
Started the finishing process
My chosen finish is a shellac finish using a french polishing method. I’ve sanded everything and started the first part of the process – pore filling. Pore filling is the process of filling spaces between the grain of the wood. It’s very important on the wider grained wood (usually the sides, back, and neck). I’ve [...]
Guitar Building – A few small things
In getting the guitar ready for the finishing process, I also wanted to do a few small things. First, the guitar’s heel on the neck was an area I wanted to modify. I’ve seen on some guitar’s that have interesting treatments on the headstock of the guitar that they do a similar/complimentary treatment on the [...]
Shop Tour – Pictoral
I know, I know. Finally he shows his entire shop. Of course when you entire shop is less than 10′ x 16′ there isn’t much to show off. First, here is my main work bench. Someday, I may build my own from scratch but I wanted to get to work so I bought a bench [...]
How to determine how much finish is needed?
I’m working on finishing the Handcut Dovetail Hope Chest that I discussed several posts ago. In class, we used Shellac to finish the interior (ok, pre-finish). I’ve not used Shellac really. It seems like a really interesting finish and can provide some color to the work without the over powering nature of some dyes and [...]
