I heard a guy at the lumber yard say he uses a dab of wood glue on his pencil marks before cutting.

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That just seems like a messy fix for a simple problem. A sharp pencil or a marking knife gives a clean line without the gunk. Glue would gum up the saw blade and leave a residue you have to clean off later. It's solving a problem that doesn't really exist if you mark your wood properly in the first place.

evan_campbell14d ago

Derekward is completely right here. The whole glue trick just adds MORE mess to a process that was already fine. Now you gotta scrape dried glue off your blade AND your workpiece before you can even make a cut. That's double the cleanup for ZERO benefit. A proper marking knife gives you a crisp line and a little groove for your saw to follow. No glue, no fuss, no gummed up tools. People love overcomplicating things when the old way still works better.

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norathomas1mo ago

Reminds me of people adding extra steps to simple tasks. Always looking for a hack instead of just doing the thing right.