"SonomaProducts.com" wrote:

I'm an ol' pencil drafter myself but I surely use a knife or scribe
whenever I want a layout mark that will also cut the fibers so I get a
clean cut and have a guide for my backsaw or chisel, etc,

In fact, one tip I give out for doing mortises with a chisel mortise
is to layout the rectangle and do deep knife cuts so the overlapping
cuts of the square chisel find their way into the knof cut and you get
nice clean long sides.


If I need to "engrave", it's time for a 6H pencil or an X-acto knife,
either gets about the same results; however, try not to do handwork,
leave that to the artisans.

I'm a power tool type.

Lew