Permanent Metal Markijg Pens

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try Milwaukee markers, available at Costo

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How about painting the area to be engraved or pierced with china white paint and then transferring your design onto the area with carbon paper - ie tracing over the design on top of the carbon paper. Bit fiddly and requires a steady hand!
Cheers Willie

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More good suggestions. I will look at the Milwaukee pens tomorrow. Thanksā€¦Rob

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Thatā€™s what I use and the engraving pen that came w my engraver machine

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Hello everyone! Very long time lurker here! Iā€™ve learned so much over the years and Iā€™m happy to be here :slightly_smiling_face:.
Regular Sharpies definitely donā€™t stay on despite the word ā€œpermanent ā€œ. BUT, the Ultra Fine point sharpies do. They donā€™t rub off at all. I never would have thought to check something like this and I actually learned it in an engraving class with Marlen Hazel.

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Marlen is so cool! And welcome!!

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Thanks!
Hazel is amazing- the class was taught by her mentor, who just retired and she was teaching alongside him.

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Yeah she really pushed me into engraving.I posted about her a while ago on here. Good lass

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Does she ever teach on the East Coast?..Rob

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I donā€™t think so at this time

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Get a mechanical pencil and a sewing needle of the appropriate size to fit into the pencil. You will have to file/grind the eye of the needle off and just insert it into the pencil. Pretty handy.

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The best marker Iā€™ve found for marking on metal is Pilot ultra fine point, permanent type. I learned about them from a Valentine Yotkov chasing workshop.

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More good ideas. As feed back, I was at my local hardware buying 1lb. propane cylinders. They had them for $6.50 each. I noticed the Milwaukee tool display had fine point marking pens. I bought a pair and they work well and stay on the metal after being heavily manipulated. This was one suggestion from the many offered in this discussion that I have had a chance to try. Thanksā€¦Rob

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I just picked this up at the local art store and itā€™s working great to mark onto metal. After it dries, it seems to resist being rubbed off by me.

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Thanks!..Rob

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How about this for marking. Buy a small bottle of indian ink and dip the tip of the sharpie into the ink, allow it to penetrate into the sharpieā€¦Or, find out what kind of ink is used in a sharpie?

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Old fart here with a couple of tipsā€¦When ever I am going to saw pierce metal that is fresh from the mill and mirror polished I always cover the back with clear shipping tape to keep the metal from being scuffed up. I mark what I need on the top of the piece or glue on a transferred image. Then once dry, cover it with more clear shipping tape. Thus no scuffing or scratches. Also when I need to saw or shear a straight line, I cover the area with black sharpie and then use my sharpest dividers to score a bright line to make it easier to see. And again cover the metal with the clear tape. I also use sharpies to coast the inside of a crown so when I am cutting a seat I again use the scribe to mark where the seat should be and thus I can see much more easily where I need to cut.

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Something like this, perhaps? Not a marker, but a retractable pen scribe: Amazon.com

Sakura also makes a super fine point waterproof marker that is finer than the extra fine Sharpie.

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