Furniture Fun...or Is It?

I'm also not an expert at refinishing furniture, but hey, I gave it a go. A "client" needed her raw wooded kitchen hutch finished and I volunteered for the job. I'm not completely ignorant when it comes to wood. I come from a line of wood workers, namely my dad, plus I took a wood working class for my degree. She wanted an antiqued look using a black and spanish red oil based paint. No problem I said. It shouldn't take more than a few hours. I primed it. Painted it black. So far so good, then red. Now time for the sanding. I've never used oil based paint before. This project came with a learning curve. Now I know your just can 'sand' oil based paint. You have to bust out the 60 grit with your sander and use your entire body weight to get through the stuff! I also pulled out the chisel. Then I had to go back over parts with the black, then the red and do some wipe away action with some finishing touches with a dry brush. All in all it took about 10hrs to do. I think it turned out pretty darn good, and now I know, oil paint is the devil.