okay so this is how we make a rubber this is the right way to make a French polishers rubber it is not which I've seen many videos on YouTube of a little piece of cotton wadding inside a bit of cotton squirted with a bit of French polish but it was shellac and then made into a little panty bag like this which it's that's rubbish right forget that this is the right way to make a rubber this is cotton wadding it's roughly sort of 12 inches by 9 inches but doesn't matter a square of cotton wadding that's going to be the fats and this is the fat part and on the outside of it here is the cotton which makes the rubber this is cotton cloth pure cotton cut into 9 to 12 inches depending on the size of the rubber you're gonna make my hands are fairly small but I'm gonna make a larger rubber this is gonna be a before Willy here in the workshop he's going to use this and I don't want to waste it because it's going to be charged full of French polish which is expensive stuff right so let's get making you let's make the fat first I'm just going to pick this cloth that I'm going to fold it in on itself I'm just going to keep on folding it in on itself till I find the right sort of point massaging it around I'm going to make it into a pear shape that is a fad it will also be the shape of the rubber when we finished this will be charged with with Polish immense so let's let's do that that's just going to reform it a few times it takes a little while to get used to and making a new rubber with a new fad just take a little bit of practice right here's a transparent or special pale polish I'm just going to charge the cloth it's going to take quite a lot so unique goes it's not bad bottom I'll wait to be soaked I'm gonna put in a little bit of methylated spirits just to help it right okay you probably haven't got one of these but a piece of a4 paper will do it this is an onion board you buy from car suppliers that they use it for their paints I'm just going to form the shape the reason we placing it Bank banging it down onto this board it's a lot want to push remove the Polish you see it coming out here look I'm gonna pick it back up again I want to move it around for fired and start to create a face I'll charge it some more get a little bit more maths not too much you can see me squeezing out the Polish but I'm gonna pick it back up again again I'm going to make a pear shape I'm trying to get a point that has to be a point to the fat and it comes into a pear it's starting to happen as the rubber is used over time that shape really develop and what will happen is it will also form the shape of the persons hand who uses it who makes it and it becomes personal to them so the rubber will become personal to the user you should be able to pick a rubber right no well that's my rubber it fits plumb my hand I'm trying to get at that point I want to get that point right here okay all right so we have the basic shape of a fat now here's the cotton cloth that creates the rubber this one's about I think it's about 12 inches each side I go to lay it on the face at the angle at that point to the corner doesn't matter which corner what the corner is up on my arm and the other corner over see is pointing away my way I'm going to just put a little bit of mess because this is a brand new rubber and I want to my hands are sticky with the Polish I want to be able to grab hold of that fat underneath I'm not going to squeeze it to death I'm just placing it into my left hand which frees up my right and then I'm going to pull down pull underneath there for another section of the cloth fold it underneath and there's flat edge to the rubber it should be a point down here starting to fall I'm going to help that point form okay so here we have my brother I want to demonstrate why it has this shape why we have this point rather than just a round bag and the reason is I'll show you here is a draw outs of a tall boy or a chest on chess that we're polishing right now the workshop demonstrate why neither point okay the reason is wood has taught us for certainly furniture I want to get into that corner so I'm gonna start off here with a little pencil bead and I'm going to apply my brother and come off there and again I want to get into the corner but that's why we have a point yeah this point will get more defined the more this rubber becomes used and shaped and held I won't do too much as well as going to take command of this rubber who changed the style of it in his hand but that point will become more more obvious and you need that to be able to control your rubber and put it exactly where you want to put pulling down my finger goes in folds around the back and see the point starting to happen I haven't let go of anything I'm not squeezing it to death and I'm going to grab the remaining cotton twist it around turn it around still holding ham ham not losing anything and there is a basic rubber shape I'm gonna force it into the shape I want by hitting it down onto the board and again soaking up the Polish it creates a flat face what we don't want is those creases you see in there it needs to be tight and there needs to be a point so this needs to be repeated probably three or four times just to get that shape starting to happen it's quite a big rubber this nice flat face there's a fat fully charged in there with French polish and methylated spirits ready for me to start working and do it take it off again this time I'm going to open it up there's the fat I gotta charge it with some more polished little bit more Metz yeah I'm not squeezing it to death pull that skirt back underneath there gently pull that hold everything in your hands don't don't loosen off you got that point going hold it Ryan twist twist then you start to see there was a point forming as and lovely arrow head there so and starting to get that pear shape a few more times and we'll have a perfect rubber ready to go and stop French polishing that's the correct way to hold it in your hand I'm not squeezing it this is the reserve a French polish it's like a reservoir of French polish and methylated spirits this is what comes out not one of those little silly little small little things that you see everyone else using and pouring on the table it comes from the rubber this is what you will use and there's enough polish in here probably to do a table almost the size of this bench or to sit it's almost enough polish in here to do that at least to get it up to the stage before we need to recharge it again but hopefully the idea of how to make French polish brother now storage of your rubber now you've made it what you do with it because if you leave it on the side it will dry out and that's a huge waste of money and your time because it holds quite a lot of polish so what we do is we have them in the workshop it store it in an airtight container there's an old one in there place it it's like and it'll keep just like that for the next time if it is a little bit sticky with time just charge it a little bit of metal square a little bit Metz over the cotton on the face of the rubber just squirt a little bit of mess over the face and rub off any dirt but you want to keep this these can last for months and months and months right the other thing I was going to show you it's a fad there's a fad in there this is the fact that we use in the workshop is with our buffing cloth and you can buy this online on our website there it is and it's exactly the same principles I've just shown you with the cotton wadding this is stockinette you can roughly fold it over like that pick it up move it around in your hands and shape it into a pear shape again and the same process and a little bit of Metz this time doesn't really matter and then charge it with polish this is transparent or special pale polish to be gone ik polish your beanie polish you choose this is our preferred polish really giving this a good charge they call that polish soak into the stockinette squeeze it out let me just move that rubber over the way look at that nice big flat face I've got to that fat a mister be good for your initial application of French polish you can use a stockinet fat like this and just in straight lines across with the gray build up a layer of French polish before you start bodying but this is if I start shaping this a bit more you end up with a nice pear shape which will naturally happen again it's the same hand position as I had with the rubber so I can start to French polish with this and again all the reserves of French polish are held within the stockinette I hope that sir makes it is if we there you go sticky answer ok so you've seen me make this rubber if you go to Gil boys doctor at UK or look at YouTube you'll see me French polishing demonstrate how we French polish here in the workshop it's something that we've been asked about a lot so take a look at gil boys doctor at UK or look at our youtube channel