RE: How to remove remnants of silk & dope?
Acetone applied with a small cheap paint brush. Use tweezers to pull it up as you dab the acetone on it. I've used it on sig stix-it and dope on koverall. Should work on dope and silk too. I'll be doing this process on a old Nosen Mulligan covered in silk. I'll recover it in Koverall.
Edwin