I am rebuilding a graphite spinning rod and need to remove the reel seat and cork grip. I think I read somewhere that boiling water may work. Any suggestions?

Boiling water - not all the time.
Grip - IMO - best to sand of on lathe to get good base to re-do. Cut the seat off with Dremel.
Herb

The boiling water technique will often work for the reel seat, but will not work on a cork handle. Do a search for the boiling technique.

Take a lino knive and carve off the cork. Don't hit the blank. You will be amazed at the lack of bonding the factory did.

Harry,
Really simple,
Take a pair of slip joint pliers and put them in the extended position.
Put the pliers around the grip in the coarse jaws and just chew off the cork. It only takes a few minutes to chew off the cork with the pliers down to the glue. Then, just use a heat gun to soften the glue and use a razor knife held at 90 degrees to the blank to scrape off the soft glue. If it takes off more than 5 minutes to completely remove the cork and clean up the blank ready for a new grip.

I just use a dremel tool with an abrasive wheel to cut the reel seat lengthwise on each side. Then, insert a screwdriver into the slit, twist the screwdriver and pop off the grip. Again, use a heat gun to heat up the glue and the razor knife at 90 degrees to the blank to clean up and remove the softened glue.

Be safe

I did a "how-to strip and rebuild" on my facebook page not long ago. Because the owner liked the reel seat, it was left on there, but everything else was removed. I basically did like Mr. Wilson said, I used channel locks, chewed off the big pieces of cork, then used a utility knife to clean the rest of it up. Here is a link to the album where you can see the cork being removed. This is the only method I have ever used.

Here is a link to the pictures.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/03/2013 05:13PM by Jeremy Reed.

Sounds right, Roger. Thank you