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Hello. I'm new here... and very new to woodworking in general (i.e. a bit clueless).
I'm in the finishing stages of building my first woodworking bench. I've decided that I want to permanently mark my bench top before I apply a polyurethane finish.
The marks on the bench top will be guidelines, such as 90 and 45 degree lines, to be used when visually roughing out pieces atop the bench.
My question is this:
Exactly how should I go about this? Should I score the wood and then mark/draw into the score lines? What type of "ink" will not bleed into the grain and will remain both visible and unaltered once 4 or 5 coats of polyurethane are applied?
Please be aware that I am currently in Indonesia and, while many types of specialist marking and scoring tools are commonly available in the rest of the world, I will probably need to make these marks with the most basic of workshop tools. So please don't recommend any new and wonderful laser scribers, etc.
Thanks in advance,
J
I'm in the finishing stages of building my first woodworking bench. I've decided that I want to permanently mark my bench top before I apply a polyurethane finish.
The marks on the bench top will be guidelines, such as 90 and 45 degree lines, to be used when visually roughing out pieces atop the bench.
My question is this:
Exactly how should I go about this? Should I score the wood and then mark/draw into the score lines? What type of "ink" will not bleed into the grain and will remain both visible and unaltered once 4 or 5 coats of polyurethane are applied?
Please be aware that I am currently in Indonesia and, while many types of specialist marking and scoring tools are commonly available in the rest of the world, I will probably need to make these marks with the most basic of workshop tools. So please don't recommend any new and wonderful laser scribers, etc.
Thanks in advance,
J