{"id":8310,"date":"2025-11-20T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:58:38","slug":"shop-pencils-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/20\/shop-pencils-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop pencils, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now let\u2019s go through some less commonly used writers – not actually pencils – that can help in the shop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First is the one with the thick lead in the wooden handle. This is the CretaColor 5.6mm white chalk<\/strong> lead. Plain white chalk is a decent alternative. The black charcoal lead is less useful but can help on a light surface.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is handy for marking wood stock with a rough size, placement, or whatever purpose – a quick way to get organized. A simple pencil marking is slower to make prominent and is not seen as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The yellow Dixon \u201clumber crayon\u201d<\/strong> (to the right in the photo<\/i>) is used for the same purpose. I find it less easy and fast to put out the markings, though it is sturdier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the top of the photo<\/i> are some pens – go old Sharpies<\/strong> – and a regular thin writing pen. Only occasionally do I use these on wood. They are sometimes useful for better visibility on wood without a smoothed surface that later will be planned or sanded. Where they are very helpful<\/strong> for is labeling things in the shop – machines, tools, parts, etc. Easy to write and easy to see the words and numbers.<\/p>\n

So that covers it for wood and the shop. On the next post<\/strong>, I will go through the set for drafting, which uses a different set of writing tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now let\u2019s go through some less commonly used writers – not actually pencils – that can help in the shop.\u00a0 First is the one with the thick lead in the wooden handle. This is the CretaColor 5.6mm white chalk lead. Plain white chalk is a decent alternative. The black charcoal lead is less useful but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-and-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8324,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions\/8324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}