Pen or Pencil?

[Nebraska]

I think he may use whichever is handy.

I don't think it matters as long as the ink does not absorb into the wood.

It appears to me that he may use ink for marking areas where the mark will remain for awhile and pencil for marks that are getting carved away right away.

[Gulf Coast Handyman]

Pencil for me.

Dave

[Glenn Jennings]

Only ever used pencil. If one is worried about smearing it then I use a trick I got from this forum and spray it with Hair spray. That holds the lines pretty well.

[Claude]

#2 pencil for me. Graphite paper for the pattern transfer. Throw my safety glove in the washing machine every so often. Any leftover pencil marks are scrubbed off with a 3M bristle disc in my Dremel; girl is scrubbed off with clear dish soap. Bristle disc also gets any fuzzies out of the cuts, and if it can't get them, then the diamond burrs in the Dremel will.

Claude