Black on black

[PerranOak]

I'm currently working with some walnut that is practically jet black.

what pencils do you use on such wood? I can't see an ordinary one unless the light is at exactly the right angle.

 

[Oryxdesign]

White ones, you can probably buy them cheaper elsewhere but axminster sell them.

 

[MikeG.]

----or try a red ball-point pen.

Mike

 

[Charlotte]

White eyeliner. You may want to check it's texture on the back of your hand as some are very oily. If you are too manly be found in the make up section, you can get a white chinagraph pencil from a sewing shop but I find them to crumbly.

 

[Imperial]

I use a yellow pencil on on AWB which seems to stand out best for me :wink:

 

[Yetty]

Masking tape then Pencil,

or,

Sharp knife.

 

[houtslager]

TRY USING A CORRECTOR PEN

HS

 

[MikeG.]

White eyeliner. You may want to check it's texture on the back of your hand as some are very oily.

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Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte..........sigh........

I sincerely hope that is the last make-up related posting I ever have to read ever anywhere! We're all entitled to the odd mistake, I guess, but your make-up suggestion ranks alongside Piers Morgan's appearance on Have I Got News For You as one of the most serious misjudgements of an audience I have ever come across.....













......I hope!!!!!!!!!



Mike

PS White eyeliner? Is there such a thing?

 

[Alf]

Mike, you're such a... bloke. Embrace your feminine side, dammit. :lol:

I prefer to use my artistic side and use a white pencil of the ordinary variety. I'm sure Chris Schwarz looked into this a year or so ago and came up with a gel pen that did the business best. Anyone remember that...?

Cheers, Alf

 

[Setch]

I find gold gel pen works very well, and lasts longer than the white gel pens.

 

[Ironballs]

Another vote for the white pencils that Axminster sell

 

[MikeG.]

Mike, you're such a... bloke. Embrace your feminine side, dammit. :lol: Alf

My feminine side hasn't heard of white eye liner, however much I embrace her....I'm sure if I asked one of the trainees they would know whether this is real or mythical.

Mike

 

[PerranOak]

Well, indeed.

Though this all raises a further question. I need the pencil to mark-out the "pins" on a lap dovetail. I cut the tails first and then use that side to mark the complimentary member, as it were.

Now, I think that I'm supposed to use a marking knife but I'm not sure about that. Firstly, I'm sure I was told not to use a knife on end grain. Secondly, I'm still not sure I could see it properly unles the cut was quite wide (maybe I need more light!). Finally, I find when I mark like this, if I then cut the joint so that the lines are gone, the joint is too loose: with a pencil line, of course, I can cut just within it and fit the joint carefully.

For this kind of precise marking, I guess that an eyebrow pencil would be too chunky. Still, now I know why so many woodworkers are fascinated with boxes ... they're for all that make-up! :lol:

 

[MikeG.]

For this kind of precise marking, I guess that an eyebrow pencil would be too chunky. Still, now I know why so many woodworkers are fascinated with boxes ... they're for all that make-up! :lol:

Well, strictly you can use any thickness like you like, as you are marking in the waste. The outside edge of the line is your guide, so it wouldn't matter if the line was 5mm wide, so long as it went accurately into the corner formed between the tails and the endgrain.

I've often thought that a really accurate way of marking would be to spray a bit of paint from a spray-can into the gaps.....but I can't be bothered with the cleaning up afterwards!

Mike