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Not once but I strain before use also I discard after six months. just can't bring myself to belive thta the mix can stay instrument quaility good for three years.MichaelP38800.6935185185

Dave,
If you can't find it in a store you can get it from several mail order houses. I think woodcraft supply has it.

I just checked www.woodcraftsupply.com and they do sell it $8.99 a quart plus shipping.

Ok Brad,thanks a lot!

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Wow, my french polishing effort sure didn't look like that. Would you
mind sharing your method?

James,   Geoff's second post in this thread will link you the the Millburn guitars tutorial. It is by far the best and most comprehensive expose on the subject that I've seen. Follow it to the letter, and you're made in the shade. (especially the part about just using 5-6 drops...). Here's the link again.

http://milburnguitars.com/frenchpolish.html

Hope this helps.

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Thanks, Alain. I'm going to check it out. I actually read it last friday and
started rubbing some finish on an ES 175 I'm restoring. I used qualasole,
and it didn't build very much. BUT I just got back from the store with the
droppers and what not to do it the way the article says to.

As many of you know, I have been French polishing since I was 15, in my grandfather's cabinet shop. The Milburn tutorial is one of the closest to the Old World method I have read. It is how my grandfather taught me with the basic exception that I was taught to spirit-off after every body session after the third as an on going leveling process. My grandfather also believed it made the amalgamation denser there by making the cured film harder. There is doubt in this being fact.

This method may be more work than required but I still use it. I am in the process of trying Robbie Obrien's method and test planks loog good. It really is not a far departure from what I do, but is a good bit less time required. So this old dog may just have learned a new trick

Get His DVD it is well woth it MichaelP38801.3791550926

Thanks Michael and Geoff and everybody who gave so much great information here on this, FP will sure be the way that i'll go, i breathe enuff saw dust wiyhout having all the fumes of a spray booth, it'll be nice to FP my guitar in front of the TV too! You folks are just great!

Thanks

Serge

Yeah. But in my opinion, it's not the spraying that sucks, it's the sanding.

Yeah, always does, that part won't be done in the living room though.