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Keep it simple
If you're gonna take off the old stuff it's a slow and painful process with sandpaper. Use a chemical stripper (outdoors if you love your family and your lungs/liver) to get to the wood (it's no less toxic than breathing sanding dust for HOURS) and then seal the wood (Val Oil, Boiled linseed oil, whatever you choose...) dry for 10 days MINIMUM to allow the VOC stench to go away as best as possible. Prime and paint as desired. Finally top seal with a good strong epoxy, if you want to add glitter mix it into the epoxy, use diamond dust XXX fine or some other fine glitter or you'll get curling of the flakes and it'll look like schnitzel. I use devcon 2-ton epoxy (the stuff in the twin-tube syringes from any dept store) and have great results.
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