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.