Start at the inside of the wraps - where the reel feet are and work outwards toward the beginning of the wraps. You may just get them started and then peel them off - pick them off with a fingernail.
Good luck - and don't let your wife get near your old glass blank, my wife launched a vacuum cleaner in my work area - future back bedroom last week pulling out some beach chairs. I picked the hoover upright off the blanks and noticed a rattle in one of them I recently stripped. Her little temper tantrum resulted in a split in the tip.
