The Perception of Doors

So, I recently had the exterior doors to the house removed and "dipped" to remove the crazy green/turquoise/ugly paint that had been applied by someone in the home's distant past.  You may remember these doors:

The results were at the same time spectacular and disappointing.  The doors themselves are absolutely amazing, but the due to the fine detailed moulding and carving, along with some age lines, not all of the paint was removed in the dipping process.

My contractor was a little disappointed in the result, I could tell, as he called me and suggested I would have to decide whether I was *really* committed to my original plan to poly the doors and allow the natural wood to show, or if I wanted to punt and paint them.  I told him I was not even going to consider repainting them, so he instructed me to obtain some dental tools and begin removing all of the tiny paint flecks from the nooks and crannies of the doors where dipping had been insufficient.  For hours I (and for some of the time Becky) labored with tiny precision tools, pulling old paint off of these doors.  If you happen to come to the house once they are finished, love the doors.  Please.