If you don't want to deal with using up all your sand paper, dust, the mess of chemical strippers you can always get a box of razorblades and a flat scraper handle and goto town. Thats how we used to do it in the rod shop I worked at. We would take it down to primer with the razorblades then DA it with 80 grit to bare metal if needed.
Heres a video of a guy doing it.
YouTube - Stripping Paint Off A Car
