How to fill the grain using pumice powder before French polish your guitar. 

Thank you so much for not only explaining in detail how to french polish, but also explaining how to deal with both problem areas and how to fix blemishes that might occur when polishing. This is really excellent teaching.

A perfect explanation of the function of the pumice powder in filling the grain. Thank you. The white powder always perplexed me.

Wonderful, Pablo! Thanks a million.

Thanks brother your videos are always very appreciated.

This is exactly what I was wandering and I saw exactly what I needed to see. Thank you so much !

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much for all the details!

Very good explanation and demonstration.

Very excellent demonstration well done! 🙏🙌❤️🙌👍👍👍👍👍👍

Thank you Pablo. A great and very helpful video. The guitar you are making looks really beautiful. I love the wood selection and the purfling and binding, very classy.

Thank you for a very good video

Thank you, Sir !

Siempre aprendo algo nuevo viendote maestro. Muy buen trabajo como siempre. Un abrazo

interesante Pablo, Nice Guitare!

Qué bueno Pablo! muchas gracias! Estoy terminando de lustrar una guitarra que restauré, siguiendo tu serie del lustre francés, es increíble lo que aprendí con eso! Me cuesta la unión del aro y el taco, o la unión del mango y la cabeza... Un saludo grande con mucho aprecio desde Argentina!

Thank you Maestro for this insightful and comprehensive demonstration. It is already evident even from afar that the quality of the woods on this particular guitar in your hands will make for a legendary instrument. Stay healthy maestro, you are a treasure and blessing for all of us!

Gracias Maestro. El mismo procedimiento se puede utilizar para restar brillo al acabado, cuando lo queremos mate ? Solo que debemos mojar el tampon en agua? o en aceite? Cuàl aceite? Gracias, buenas noches

¡Bravo! This was really interesting, Pablo. I tried grain filling with pumice and burnt umber for colour, and it didn't turn out very happily. This video gives me better insight into this process.

De las mejores explicaciones que he visto, muchísimas gracias. Una pregunta, es posible rellenar los poros con el mismo polvo de la madera que uno lija? Se comportaría de una forma parecida a la piedra pome? Se recomienda? (bueno fueron varias preguntas lo siento ajajaj)

Can grain filling diminish the resonance of a spruce top? Isn’t grain filling purely aesthetic? Or can grain filling improve high ends or low ends? Are grain filling and or polishing with shellac really necessary?

Ok.. what is the horn for? I gotta know

Great video! Do you ever use egg white before French polishing? Any opinions on the benefits or disadvantages of it?

Hola Pablo como estas? Gracias por la información. Tenés algún video en español o con subtítulos te lo agradecería Saludos desde la Argentina

I wonder if the expectation to have the grain filled came with the use of pumice on the sanding process. If I'm not wrong there was no sandpaper in the past. Now we have to fill the pore as is expected. Of course, its easier to clean the surfaces later on when there's no holes in the wood, so it a sanitary issue as well. LOL

What about the pictures in the background on the easels? Are you doing watercolour painting? Looks interesting... Such a nice technique with the pumice powder. Why seal the guitar with epoxy coats and increase the plastic waste?

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Hola Pablo, como estas? Se que es un video viejo pero igual no pierdo nada con intentar preguntarte: existe alguna otra alternativa a la piedra pomez? En mi pais consigo la piedra pero no en forma de polvo, por lo que queria saber si se puede probar con otra cosa. Muchas gracias y excelente el video!

If your wood is stained do you still use the same approach for filling or will this method pull up the stain?

I'm wondering if talc or baby powder could work as an aggregate to cut the wood and fill the grain

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Do i need to use this powder if i used resin method to fill the grains?

Have you ever used drywall powder before ?

What kind of 'rubber' are you using to rub with?

You made my day with this!👌 ... I need to start watching your videos more often!😏 when you have time take a look #EvyMusicAndLifestyle also, thank you!

Hola Don Pablo maestro. I have some beautiful (?) ideas I’d like to share with you concerning guitar making I would do had I been able to be an instrument maker like you. You are very welcomed to try this ideas if you like because they are just ideas without ownership or at least you might offer an opinion. 1. I believe that if the spaces between frets was concave a little bit in the center , the player might be able to get more vibrato effect from his guitar. Another idea I would play around with is to have pieces of thin balsa wood strips inside the body hopefully each tuned to respond to one of the 12 musical notes as the instrument is played. I recently purchased a vintage guitar possibly about 60 years old. I French polished it including what I could reach in the inside of it. It has a colorful label to which I also applied the French polish to and it looks beautiful. So why not also treat the inside of the instruments to look as beautiful in the inside as well. And put a fancy, colorful label as well? Benicio Dela vega on fb