Ever need to mark a piece of wood for identification purposes, but
with what?
No marking pens, sometimes not even a pencil.
Enter a piece of black board chalk.
Low cost, leaves a nice white mark, and can easily be removed when
finished.
Funny what you can learn if you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open,
and just watch a craftsman do his/her job.
Lew
Lew Hodgett wrote:
> Ever need to mark a piece of wood for identification purposes, but
> with what?
>
> No marking pens, sometimes not even a pencil.
>
> Enter a piece of black board chalk.
>
> Low cost, leaves a nice white mark, and can easily be removed when
> finished.
>
> Funny what you can learn if you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open,
> and just watch a craftsman do his/her job.
>
> Lew
chalk is great- sometimes.
if the wood is getting painted or is being left raw no problem.
however, I have had ghost marks of the chalk show up after stain and
especially after waterborne clearcoats. I no longer use chalk as a
marker on interior finish work.
Lew Hodgett wrote:
> Ever need to mark a piece of wood for identification purposes, but
> with what?
If I'm marking logs or boards in a pile to mean "I'm buying this one"
then I use water-based paint dabbers from the Early Learning Centre.
Bright fluo colours, not anything that can;t be got rid of later. My
son is 11 now, so I've had these a few years since he was finished with
them!
For more permanent marking, I use a timber marking crayon. It's a
double-sized coloured crayon in a wooden holder - just like a colouring
crayon, only bigger and not easily broken. It's just the "right thing"
- works fine and doesn't wash off.
> Enter a piece of black board chalk.
How else do you do rough layout on a big board for which order you're
going to cut the drawerfronts etc. from it? I couldn't work without
one!
OTOH, I find blackboard chalk to be crude and blunt. I use tailors'
chalk (sharp-edged triangles) instead.
Lew Hodgett wrote:
> Ever need to mark a piece of wood for identification purposes, but
> with what?
If I'm marking logs or boards in a pile to mean "I'm buying this one"
then I use water-based paint dabbers from the Early Learning Centre.
Bright fluo colours, not anything that can;t be got rid of later. My
son is 11 now, so I've had these a few years since he was finished with
them!
For more permanent marking, I use a timber marking crayon. It's a
double-sized coloured crayon in a wooden holder - just like a colouring
crayon, only bigger and not easily broken. It's just the "right thing"
- works fine and doesn't wash off.
> Enter a piece of black board chalk.
How else do you do rough layout on a big board for which order you're
going to cut the drawerfronts etc. from it? I couldn't work without
one!
OTOH, I find blackboard chalk to be crude and blunt. I use tailors'
chalk (sharp-edged triangles) instead.
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> chalk is great- sometimes.
>
> if the wood is getting painted or is being left raw no problem.
> however, I have had ghost marks of the chalk show up after stain and
> especially after waterborne clearcoats. I no longer use chalk as a
> marker on interior finish work.
>
I use chalk mostly to indicate orientation of pieces (stock) and to mark out
bisquits, and I once had the problem of not being able to get rid of some blue
chalk in the finishing process, it had insinuated itself into the grain
somehow.
Compressed air and a dust gun have proved to be the best way of removing it,
just prior to pre-finish. No more probs.
-P.
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On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:25:44 GMT, Lew Hodgett
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Low cost, leaves a nice white mark, and can easily be removed when
>finished.
>
Some of us even have different colors in the drawer.
Chalk is also very useful at the wood dealer when selecting stock. You
can roughly mark out stock for highly visible and important parts,
changing your mind as often as necessary. The chalk lasts long
enough so it's still visible when you get the material back to the
shop, so you won't forget what you had in mind.