OK - so - next door 6 yr-old girl loves to come to my shop and select scraps of wood to color [I cut down scrap stuff to thin strips just for her, and keep them in inventory for that purpose]. She has an eye for the expensive stuff - gotta admire her taste! - QSWO, QS sycamore, Ipe, walnut, mahog, you name it. Pine, ply, etc don't get it for her.
Beats me why she likes to color wood - but that's my problem, not hers. She hangs out in the shop wearing one of my old tee-shirts as a smock, and creates art. Good enough.
Usually she uses a large selection of sharpie-type things. Today she went after the chalk I use for marking up rough lumber for pre-hack-to-size-before-milling layout.
Idiot Me: "when you are done, I got some magic stuff that will seal that chalk into the wood so it won't rub off."
Turns out that the magic imparted by rattle-can shellac is the magic of making chalk vanish. I don't have a very big fan club, and she is one of them, so I need to not disappoint her. The look in those eyes..........sheesh.
Suggestions? So that I can return to wizard status in the eyes of a lovely 6-yr-old? It is just plain-old chalk [many colors] on strips of wood run through TS or BS.
TIA
Kent
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