When you epoxy a practice wrap on the end of the but section for color choices, what is the best way to remove it? Do you let it dry all the way? I know my dentured alcohol brakes down the epoxy quickly. So what do you guy's do. I do the add water to the color combination trick but I think when the epoxy is really added the colors get even darker. Thanks Tom

I know this isn't going to help much for removing the test wrap, but I took two old blanks, one slate gray and the other silver, and cut them down and did a wrap of each color that I use the most. I do about a two inch wrap and put color preserver on half of each color and then epoxy the whole thing. It gives me a pretty good idea of the color for most any blank color that I've built on. It also gives the person who I'm building the rod for a good idea of what colors are available for them to pick from. They always seem to know what they want except for the color! Their comment is always " I get to choose the color? I don't know, I haven't thought about that."

As far as removing the epoxy, as long as it's fairly new, it should come off very easily with a little alcohol and a fingernail. That's how I get my "practice" guides off anyway.

I would use alchohol as well.

I also use a color stick like Jay. Since a lot of my business is long distance, over the internet, I have taken an old blank and wrapped it and epoxy it and mailed it to a customer to get his approval.