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I glued up a 7" satin finished chef the other day. I was continually checking for ooze but when I woke up in the morning, I found this horrible fillet of red epoxy around the front of the scale. I was obviously concerned with scratching the finish of the blade.
I checked the past threads here and the general consensus was to make a brass graver but that would probably still scratch the surface.
Then I saw a post from Andre V suggesting to heat up the graver with a torch first. This worked awesome. Removing the Gflex was just like carving soft wax as long as the brass was hot. This was so easy. I thought I was going to have hours of work ahead of me but it only took a few minutes.
What a great tip. That'll teach me for not waxing the blade and scales first.
I checked the past threads here and the general consensus was to make a brass graver but that would probably still scratch the surface.
Then I saw a post from Andre V suggesting to heat up the graver with a torch first. This worked awesome. Removing the Gflex was just like carving soft wax as long as the brass was hot. This was so easy. I thought I was going to have hours of work ahead of me but it only took a few minutes.
What a great tip. That'll teach me for not waxing the blade and scales first.
Come on ,you do not like humor at all ? We read your post , that was excellent tip to clean epoxy from blade what else can we say ? OK , thanks for sharing this tip with us 
Not so long ago was a topic about this where we share how we deal with this problem and I don t find that is appropriate to write that again here .....