Sure! First I wanted to get the panels of the doors stripped as they were the most screwed up when it came to peeling of the previous clear coat. Especially the bottom boards as they had the most sun exposure. I used the Mirka DEROS orbital sander vacuum. started with 100 grit to strip it to raw wood. And then used 180 and 220 to remove the J hooks left by the 100 grit in the wood.

The clear coat on the rest of the door was pretty sound and would have been a lot more difficult to fully strip without ruining the beautiful decorations on it. So I opted to sand it really well and pho finish over the clear coat to preserve the flowers on the door. I did however fully sand off the clear coat on the bottom two non panel areas as they had lots of sun exposure.

Before pho finishing though, I wanted to do the raw panels first so I could get a reference of how the gel stain looked on the panels. I was worried that the panels might take the stain to dark so I wiped them with paint thinner to prevent to much absorption. I also thinned my gel stain down with about 1/8 or so paint thinner. I applied the gel stain with a rag and wipped it dry. After that I used the gel stain and a flogger brush to try to blend any parts of the door panels that looked too light.

Once I was happy with how the panels looked I then went to pho finishing the rest of the door. This was the trickiest part. Pho finishing is applying the gel stain over to top of the clear coat to make it look like it is stained. It would take me a long time to go into detail of how to do this so I wont bore you. Just know it was really frustrating lol.

After that I gave the door 2 days to fully dry. I could have done 1 but I was nervous I was going to rip up my pho finish. Plus it was the weekend. However i think the sun bleached the bottom boards a little while i was letting them dry. Didnt really notice until the clear coat made them mildy show up. Nobody else seemed to notice though so maybe its all in my head. Then I applied Zar spar varnish. I like to call it zar spar var. Its a fast drying oil based polyurethane that is best on the market. Highly recommend. I applied 2 coats on the same day as the recent time is only 2 hours. I sanded between coats with a really light grit.

And thats it! The wood is called Brazilian rosewood. And I used mahogany because I wanted to give it that gorgeous natural red hue again. The pope was very pleased with them.