Step 10Lightly remove brown
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If you want, you could add and wipe off more black at this stage. For me I lightly sanded the crisscross area to bring the cream colour back up (grateful now that I had put on so many coats of base colour cream paint) to give the area a really neat, worn look. Also I was unhappy with the finish of the handle so I resprayed some cream in the middle of the handle to really make it look like it had been polished completely clean by years of spell casting.