Masking tape

[starlingwood]

Can anyone recommend a masking tape that can be drawn on with pencil or biro.

 

[Droogs]

Tesa low tack but use a B/2B not HB

 

[Spectric]

Most of the ones I have come across or use can be drawn on, even the Scotch blue one I use, the bigger issue is the time in which you have to remove it before it becomes hard work. I tend to use a length of masking tape on my workpiece onto which I mark my cut line, find it much clearer than putting the mark directly on the wood, but this might just be a hangover from my days using engineers blue.

 

[Yojevol]

I've never had a problem. Ove the last few days I've been using HB on a cheapy tape from Screwfix.
Brian

 

[thetyreman]

3M masking tape is good, lidl recently had them on sale.

 

[Linus]

Frog tape is excellent with different grades for different tasks from low tack to non-bleed.

 

[starlingwood]

Must just be the pencils I use. I will check what type I'm using. Biro is a waste of time too. I'm using blue scotch tape and this orange one with some sort of writing. Neither are satisfactory for writing on, I sometimes just wany to a line when setting out on the router table.

 

[Cabinetman]

Must just be the pencils I use. I will check what type I'm using. Biro is a waste of time too. I'm using blue scotch tape and this orange one with some sort of writing. Neither are satisfactory for writing on, I sometimes just wany to a line when setting out on the router table.

It’s simple enough, just buy some creamy white, I go through loads of masking tape it’s so incredibly useful. Wilko's is probably cheapest. Ian

 

[Suffolkboy]

I've never bought masking tape that couldn't be written on.