Marking damp bark/ timber?

[OakAdmirer]

Hi all, not exactly an arborist here but I do work an awful lot with wood products (strainers, rails, posts and so on).

 

Quite often find myself having to mark damp wood (often with the bark still on; this is for fencing and whatnot displayed in public places) for sawing, and this proves quite tiresome. Can always make a mark with a silky saw but that takes time, and when you have to make precise, measured marks on 100 bits of wood before some chainsaw work this all adds up!

 

Then there's timber crayons, which I haven't tried yet, but looks like they produce too big and smudgy a line for accurate work.

 

Found an old thread on here with various timber pencils that are meant to be good, but upon further research lots of people were complaining that the lead snaps off far too easily:

 

Tippex pens seem an obvious solution but are prone to drying up really fast and perhaps leave too much of an obvious, ugly mark on the wood.

 

Is there some miraculous solution people on here have that could help?

 

Cheers for any and all advice

 

[spuddog0507]

A 3" nail works wounders and its cheap as, 

[woody paul]

Hacksaw blade with hook sharpen on the end. 

[Stere]

timber scribe?

 

George Barnsley, Sheffield, Rubber Tapping Tool, Timber Scribe,Old Stock, Unused

WWW.EBAY.CO.UK

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Could also be used as a timber scribe.

 

[Steven P]

smoothie pen?