I finish a lot of my work with epoxy coating. I was inspired to do this after seeing some of the Moulthrop family (Ed, Philip and Matt) work at an exhibit at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and also some work by John Williams (Urban Wood Creations).
Sometimes I like the high gloss of an epoxy finish, but sometimes I'd prefer to tone it down. My approach to toning it down usually is to wet-sand from some fairly high grit level, like 600 or 800, to another even higher grit level, stopping before the sanding simply restores the high gloss that existed before starting to sand. That's usually a final grit level of 1500, 3000, somewhere in there. I've also used rubbing compounds (usually associated with rubbing out imperfections in automobile paint jobs).
I'm looking for suggestions and ideas about how to do this, and particularly about products (such as rubbing grits) that might help to get the finish from very high gloss down to something more satin-like.
Robert Marshall