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Thanks, Larry. I did end up buying one of the Tajima boxes. Once I started cleaning the old Craftsman, I realized that I’d never be able to get all of the old red chalk out. Since the red chalk might be too permanent for marking furniture parts, I decided better safe than sorry and ordered one of the Tajima’s plus some purple “dust off” calk. I’ll see if I can adjust the pads in the Craftsman (for other work), but they seemed brittle.
Are you sure that Japanese use sumitsubo for furniture? I thought it was for carpentry, which still requires exquisite joinery, but for which permanent ink lines won’t matter. There is also a stylus that is used with the ink pot. That might be less likely to cause trouble.