Originally Posted by
Stanley Covington
Ditto.
Or maybe another coat of lumpy blue, and then black. When you sand the black, the high-standing lumps and streaks in the blue coat will wear through quickly leaving spots exposing layers of color.
Another trick is to wax particular areas, and then paint over them. The milkpaint won't stick well, and can be easily rubbed or flaked off in interesting ways exposing the other colored layers beneath. Very antiquey. If Boss Bubba, aka, SWMBO, likes antiquey things, she might be perusaded to see the Holy Toolbox as a folksy bit of interior decoration for Airbus 1 (or whatever you call the Presidential RV).
I had my toolbox sitting in the corner of the dining room for a year when we first moved into our current house in Japan. My wife loves to entertain, and her girlfriends always commented positively on the antique tansu, not realizing of course, that it contained tools like chisels, planes, and adzes and not lace baby clothes.
The picture below has this done to a Windsor chair's arm. The wax was applied over the black coat, as you can see.
Stan