In Which The Interior of the Door Gets Primer and Putty

After I was happy enough with the strip job on the interior of the door, I went ahead and used Durham's Water Putty to fill in the gaps from the lock set patch. I let it dry for about an hour and then put on 2 coats of SW Easy Sand that I had bought last year for touching up the baseboards.
I don't know if I ever used it on anything, but out of the can it is exactly like liquid whiteout. It has the same smell, the same viscosity (thinner than water), the same opaque white color and matte texture... It's probably cheaper than liquid whiteout too! Anyway, because of the viscosity, brushing it onto a vertical surface was a mess: if I used a downward stroke, the primer would run down the inside of the ferrule and splatter all over the ground. it may hve been partially because I was using a cheap chip brush so I didn't have to clean my nice purdys, but it is so runny, I doubt a $20 brush would help all that much. it also gets tacky almost immediately, so you can't really go back over to tip out the brush strokes. The warm weather we've been having probably didn't help, but I think that's just how this primer works.

After 18 hours of dry time (the next day), I used some more Durham's to fill in the gouges I made while stripping off the paint. In some areas I had to rebuild the molding profile where I got a little too aggressive with the 5-in-1.

I also filled in some of the more pronounced grain and let the whole shebang dry for half an hour. On a side note, I really like Durham's compared to the pre-mixed putties on the market. I think if I had used Durham's on the drywall patch, it might not have turned out quite so bad. Maybe.
I then wet sanded the interior with 180 grit 3M red roll sandpaper. I won't buy anything else these days, this stuff is fantastic. I am going to be putting on another coat of easy sand, so I didn't sand too much, just enough to take off the nibs and cut down the grain as much as I could. Another hour and then I did a little more filler work to get the spots I missed or oversanded. I'll give it another hour to dry, then lay down the 3rd coat of primer. Tomorrow I'll resand the primer and I'm planning on laying the topcoat of enamel on sunday. next week it looks like it may rain, so I might not get a chance to finish up the exterior for a while.
While waiting for the final filler to dry, I wallowed out the peephole bore to fit a standard 9/16th peephole. For some reason, the bore was roughly drilled out for 9/16, but with a slightly undersized (and very very dull) bit so the old unit (which was full of mold...) was a 1/2" unit that was very loose in the bore. Now the bore fits the new peephole perfectly.