Reply To: Half blind dovetails scribe lines

One thing I do sometimes, rather than have a difficult to see knife line on end grain, is instead of using a knife, I use a B or 2B pencil, and shade in to the corner. That gives me a nice clear delineation of what is to be kept and what not (which can save on hair pulling). And any overspill on to the tails also helps to highlight any tightness that might need paring. Cristian Becksvoort demonstrates this technique on his video for FWW (Just another dovetail video, I think it is called).