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Thread: Colour leads for marking timber
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6th March 2024, 08:28 AM #16
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6th March 2024, 08:46 AM #17
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Hi Ma
Indulged in one of the pica's. Kind of expensive for a plastic pencil plus pack of leads. Didn't love it as for the reasons you have stated. A sharpened tip breaks up straight away, then drawing with a thick crayon. Prefer the consistent lines from narrow mechanical pencils.
The leads are inexpensive and I had the pencils already.
Also, tried the soapstone sticks Michael suggested. They are also pretty good. Carved the edge to a single side bevel. The ship tip wears quickly but then the tip stabilises.
So why try another- main objective of trying the yellow is to see if it stands out on as wide a variety of timber as possible, light and dark. Then there is a single markup pencil to deploy.
If I have joy with the pilot yellow leads will note so here on the forum, but they are in snail mail. Not due until mid April.
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13th March 2024, 10:37 PM #18
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Yellow arrived, not a huge jump from the light blue, but useful as well.
Interestingly, how that I have an array of "colours" they are arrayed to my right while marking up and use different colours for varying aspects. I suspect there is not a 'serious' reason for this - but the result looks nicer while working and I suppose that helps for paying attention.
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