I'm sure this has been addressed here, but I searched and couldn't find an answer to this exact question(I'm feeling like a dope today).

I was putting together the handle on a fly rod over the weekend, and I was planning (for once) to be careful with epoxy, and not to have to clean up gobs of the stuff from the blank, the grip, my hair, and the family dog. I did great, or so I thought, until I looked at the reel seat the next morning, and saw that when cleaning up, I had missed some of the stuff on the very bottom of the reel seat, where (of course) it had dried, and did not want to come off. I tried denatured alcohol, my fingernail, a metal pick -- all with no success.

This is a purely cosmetic thing -- the reel seat nuts work perfectly -- and perhaps I should leave it there to remind myself that I'm always just one mistake away from looking like a moron. I've considered using a stronger solvent and/or a scrubbing pad, but I don't want to damage or discolor the reel seat (a black Pac Bay aluminum saltwater seat). Does anyone have any ideas, any magic suggestions, for getting this off?

DO NOT USE SOLVENTS, place a small pan on the stove and get some water boiling, place the reel seat in the boiling water for about 2 or 3 min's then remove from the water and with a paper or regular towel and your finger nail just scrape it off. Using the boiling water will soften the rod bond enough to make it easer to remove.
Remember don't twist anything as you could move the reel seat itself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go to this link and read the whole thing.

[www.rodbuilding.org]