Rod rebuild

[beamie]

Just a nice sharp razor knife, worked as to no dig into the blank. It is easier than it sounds, you'll do fine.

Sometimes redoing old rods turns out to be harder than starting new ones from scratch, you are finding that out now.

[Sweetwater]

Agree....a razor blade/knife will work fine. The foam will peel right off. You can clean any residual with alcohol (on the rod, not inside you) and it will be fine.

I'm almost finished refurbishing two old S-glass rods and they cleaned up nicely.