Marking pens and bleeding

[BobRad]

I've been busily going through my pile of blanks and marking them all for tracking purposes. On the last blank I turned, which was pretty narrow and a bit off centre, the marks from the marker were barely removed by the time I got it down to thickness - so maybe there are some residual maker chemicals close to the surface.

I'm wondering if there could be any effect from residual bleeding of the marker solvents into the finish. For most of the pens I marked them with a CD and photo safe marker pen, but I also use a Sharpie pen.

 

[EBorraga]

I put folder labels on all my blanks and then mark on the labels. I used a sharpie when I first started marking blanks and found that they will bleed through the wood.

 

[BobRad]

Then I hope that my scrapbook marker is less powerful. In retrospect I should have marked the ends - even though the grain is more absorbent, the ends will get more stock removed and are covered by caps.

 

[MobilMan]

How about writing on masking tape & applying that to the blank.

 

[BobRad]

Yes - I'll either do that or use my label maker

 

[GoodTurns]

I use the wite-out pens...stays on the surface and easy to read

 

[Rfturner]

I use pencil whenever it is wood