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Wesley Baggett
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Relaxing 5 minutes of nonstop ocean waves.
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Relaxing 5 minutes of nonstop ocean waves.
Raiza and I at the Jacksonville Beaches Jacksonville Florida.
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Raiza and I at the Jacksonville Beaches Jacksonville Florida.
Unedited Relaxing Ocean Sound of Waves.
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Unedited Relaxing Ocean Sound of Waves.
miscellaneous sheet music for violin and piano
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miscellaneous sheet music for violin and piano
pruning and propagating my fiddle leaf plants
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pruning and propagating my fiddle leaf plants
I bought a Czech made Stadiverio. ARE THEY WORTH MUCH.
Secret trick to getting the top of an old violin safely: Take the "blunt" side of and Exacto knife and scrape all around the glued seam of the violin. The blunt edge of the Exacto knife nicely breaks the glue so you can easier find a place to go in with your palette knife. On really old violins using this method there were times all I have to do was get the palette knife in the seam and slowly twist it and the top will almost completely pop off. NOTE: Modern cheap violins like rented to schools are a nightmare to get the top off because they use glue that is too strong.
Very cool 👍
I think my favorite aspect of French polishing is how incredibly thin the total thickness of the coating is. It looks deep and glassy, but it's thinner than a sheet of paper in total thickness, and that's amazing.
What shellac are you using?
I'm tardy, Wes... Five years late, but thanks. I have a wooden neck angle tool I made but have since also acquired one of these. I did not understand the purpose of the shorter leg! Now I do! Again, thanks!!!!
*Promo sm* 😕
Stradavri never used French polish. Oil varnish only
@wesleybaggett8412 will tell you why you need the top shiny..the other day i was at a concert when the soloist was using a Del Gesu and i thought that violin looked spectacular under lights, was shimmering at differerent areas. obviously someone french polished the living daylights out of it. compared to that violin, all the violins of the orchestra looked so dull !
Is the varnish of this violin oil based?
Do you have a comparison video for bird's eye amd other models for reference? Nice video btw
Such a great technique! Can you give me advice? I always leave lines that are visible in the light! How can I avoid that so that it leaves no witness lines?
please correct me if I'm wrong. I am under the impression that the traditional finish for violins is a particular type of varnish developed by the early makers before French polishing with shellac came about. violins are touched up with French polish later or even French polished all over later on. did you varnish your violin first? has French polishing instead of varnish become the norm now?
I have the same one. I'm just wondering how old it is and how much would it be worth.
This looks just like my mine (materials, outline, arching, varnish). I know these conservatory violins have taken on many different variations since they were first manufactured, so I wonder if ours were built by the same person. I had mine appraised and restored back to playing condition. It’s a mean fiddle. I was told that it was built ca.1850-60
Frank Gray is one of my Ancestors....Very Cool to hear one.
Beautiful work! I'm interested in what kinds of finishes are used to seal violins, are there any sources you could point me to that would help me learn about that?
No, comment for you sell violens
Wesley Baggett Although Geared tuners are easier to turn, those ones were shot. They're working on improving the design plus they'll be ultra-light weight.
did your leaks alot of smoke through gaps and hole like the one the top sits in in the corner
@@hollyjollydog Yes! Lol. I figured that out back then and cemented the joints. Keeping our cabin nice and warm as we speak
If they had compressors and spray guns back then, they would have sprayed initial coats of shellac to save time. Thanks for the video and beautiful instruments!
This gentleman has access, yet he chooses to do it by hand. Back then, my guess some would and some wouldn't. Same as today.
This procedere starts with grainfilling. When you are ready with that, finish polishing starts. You dont want to get more material on it as necessary, because this would have some negative effects to the sound.
Please explain how much shellac and how much alcohol to be used. What to use as a pad and how and when to recharge your pad.
how much do you press ? are you going to press more as the paddle begins to get dry ?
how you apply color before French Polishing
A couple of drops of an oil like palm, or sunflower once in a while on the pad will keep it from sticking for a smoother application. The oil floats up out of the finish harmlessly. It’s a time honored part of the craft. Good vid. Captures the zen of polishing.
On rare occasions I use only olive oil.
@@wesleybaggett8412. Hello Wesley. Why do you choose French Polish, as opposed to Spirit or Oil Varnish ? French Polish from what I have read , is essential the same as Spirit varnish, being shellac + solvent/denatured alcohol , and for me is so much easier to buy. Thanks.
Magginni violins range from 200k to 2 mill US Dollar. I hope he knows what he is doing!!!
it's because it's a copy.
They were a popular German workshop violin (copy) back in the day, late 19th / early 20th cen.) -Not expensive. I own a very old Maggini and, based on what I see here, I would be reluctant to have this gentleman work on it.
Can I mix a few drop of oil based paint with Shellac solution? I want to make Red-Brown. My shellac is light brown naturally, so I need a little red. Can I do this?
No. The solvent for shellac is ethyl alcohol, so you can only use alcohol soluble dyes to color it. However, shellac flakes do come naturally in “garnet”. You might like that. Perhaps mixed with some brown flakes.
Work of love ! Beautiful sir !
Great demonstration. Thank you.
what is Gorilla Glue?
Hi, how is this violin build inside? any news about it?
Hi Wesley, this is Grace who bought 3 violins from you in summer 2019. Do you remember? Now, my friend’s daughter outgrowed, need to buy a 1/2 violin. We thought it’s the best option to buy from you. Would you please give me you contact information so that we can talk tomorrow when I get a chance.
nice shostakovich sound track! good choice - I french polish my own instruments when I do repairs and i am grateful for those who share their experiences and knowledge of these things. Thanks. Subscribed. I have some videos on my channel as well.
The color on the violin is just the natural color of the shellac? It’s a beautiful process and a great sounding finish. The older it gets the better it sounds!!
I've been buying violins from china for my daughters and son. I wish I could fix those details. Thank you for the video.
@UC4AToa6z6dBb4QRjp0ztb9w Now you can use Wittner Mechanical Pegs:wittner-gmbh.de/wittner_finetune_peg_violin.html & Hora makes Electric Violins w/ Machine Head tuners:hora-factory.com/electric_violin.html & they're awesome. Rubner makes easy tune machine head tuners for Violin:www.ebay.com/itm/202228591207?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338765313&toolid=10001&customid=42fdcd6e26cd54f34dc5a93a3b1ae98d which are an improved version of the Original Violin Machine head tuners that look like what you expect, pegs w/ built in fine tuners.
Wittner Fine tune pegs also have a special string winder for em.
@UC4AToa6z6dBb4QRjp0ztb9w Hora makes Electric Violins w/ Geared Tuners & they look awesome.
@UC4AToa6z6dBb4QRjp0ztb9w They're machine head tuners which are pegs w/ integrand fine tuners in them & they eliminate the need to have fine tuners on the Tailpiece, the lack of fine tuners on the Tailpiece livens up the sound by allowing the top to vibrate more freely. Wittner makes good ones. I put mechanical tuners on my 5 String Cello & it's holding tune better:ruclips.net/video/SAToDJxAco0/видео.html
Wittner Fine Tune pegs would've worked. The advantage of Geared tuners is that they don't slip & are held on by wood screws. They work better on Electric Violins.
A labor of love!
Shellac has been around for thousands of years and is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on tress and is quite a process to produce shellac.
the pressure on the neck as he is cleaning it. he is holding it wrong. makes me cringe.
he isn't cleaning - he is varnishing. you have NO idea what you're talking about. cringe about your own ignorance.
@@thatoneguy8064 hahahaha
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Have you ever tried propolis?
No I haven't.
which do you recommend, normal shellac or dewaxed shellac? is there any difference?
If these are choices of premade, I suspect he uses flakes and alcohol not a can. He calls it French polishing which I though refers to refinishing, I guess it also refers to the technique used when shellacing something. I made shellac and tried the technique out on a refinished table top, tuned out well, wet sanded with wet sand paper and spray between maybe 3 coats. Smooth, nice, but flat, probably his comments on going over it again if it skips, maybe the wet sanding had an effect. I think I could have started at any point and got his finish if I applied enough coats correctly.
@@mykofreder1682 No,i wouldnt be doing from a premade. I would buy the flakes and then do the cuts myself. But been watching some videos and some refer dewaxed over waxed, and vice-versa. and some even add a wax layer on top for protection, and I was wondering on his opinion. I really like the look a french polish gives, plus, compared to other options, its the least for health issues.
I've always used dewaxed.
@@wesleybaggett8412 alright. thank you for the tip! I will try and get some dewaxed amber shellac!!
I couldn't believe I recognized the violin piece playing in the background. My teacher gave me sheet music for it a very long time ago: "Prelude" by Dmitri Shostakovich, if I remember correctly. That was 50 years ago!!!
it is a great piece. I recorded this one recently, part of it, as it's very rewarding and fun.
Is there shellac on the pad as wel?
You make shellac about 4:1 flakes to alcohol, by weight, I think it can be varied and has the consistency of alcohol which gets sticky when it starts to dry. I used a cheap paper towel wad with a better shop paper towel outside, you dip this sponge in the shellac and let it get saturated, obviously not to a drippy state. The sponge is what allows this guy to apply coat after coat, if you press it liquid will come out. The dampness has to be right so you can press some without making puddles, you press more as it loses liquid to stay damp.
Yes. That's what gives it it's dark color on the polishing pad.
I have found refinishing using a Alcohol based coating, the second and subsequent coats soften the previous coats, how does it build colour when the coats never really harden?
They do harden in micro layers just enough. I can spend a couple of months finishing a violin.
Ne ho una simile in cantina. Posso utilizzarla ancira?.
Basta che li fai la manutenzione.se non presenta crepe e difetti,puoi usarla.
Looks like a doctor is finishing a violin. Like it. 👍
Yeah, Doctors just don't have the hand/eye coordination to do this work LOL!