[VFB] Epoxy Job from Hell update

[Tom Davenport]

Over  a year ago I made a post detailing an "epoxy job from hell" on a 
Scott rod I built at the time.  The epoxy didn't cure properly and 
attempts to fix it made things worse. The rod was ugly, but it worked 
and became my favorite rod.

I broke the tip of this rod fishing a month ago and decided to try and 
redo the entire rod, since the tip has 8 of the 10 guides.

The full job would require removing epoxy from the two main stripper 
guides and the winding check, hook keeper/logo area.

Just about everyone I talked to said "don't use solvents, just cut and 
scrap off the epoxy with a razor blade.

So I started with the razor on the main stripper guide and it was slow, 
tedious work.  When I accidentally shaved a bit of the graphite with 
one strip attempt, I decided to bring out the solvent!  Any possible 
damage to the rods finish couldn't be as bad as a razor slicing out 
pieces of graphite.

I used an epoxy/paint remover gel I bought at a hardware store, and 
took care to just cover the epoxy.   It worked great!  It softened the 
epoxy enough that I was able to just wipe it off with a rag with a 
little bit of denatured alcohol... it even left the wraps intact so I 
didn't have to rewrap.  It is turning now (I finished the tip tonight), 
and looks 100% better than before.

Tom Davenport