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WilliamS
PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 11:56 am 
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Here's a little single-0-ish guitar I brought home from the shop last night (...not my best work but it was built between projects for my friend's kid). This was finished with the method above.

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Kevin Mason wrote:
Several of you have stated that you have French polished with Royal Lac. Does that mean you pad on with oil and simply substitute Royal Lac for shellac, or are you talking about the brushing or padding method without oil that Robbie O'Brien demonstrated in his video?


I don't use RO's approach. I do a more traditional FP building VERY slowly with very little on the pad and just a hint of oil. Then I "spirit off" after about a week's cure. Along the lines of Richard Howell's YouTube tut:



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