Help! Painted in a corner with Prismacolor Verithin White Pencil

[bill epstein]

Congratulated myself as I made highly visible location marks on dark walnut parts today with the aforesaid pencil until I found that all the solvents I know are used for "blending".

Can I "blend" away the marks? Or will I blend them visibly into the subsequent finish? Or plane, scrape, sandpaper melt them into the grain?

Shirley there's an easy answer? I can't be the first numbskull to mark on wood with the thing.

[Jim Koepke]

One of my favorite erasers for pencil marks is a very sharp very fine set plane.

It should solve your situation.

jtk

[Tony Shea]

As Jim said, handplane the surface smooth!

[Tom M King]

If those are the old ones, they have wax in with the "lead". If so, I'd get it all off with something sharp. I use them too, and usually use a cabinet scraper.

edited to add: I remember using new utility knife blades to scrape it off once. They worked better than you might think they would as little scrapers.

[Phil Mueller]

As Tom Suggested, I often use a razor blade as a small scraper...works wonders.

[bill epstein]

Thanks, guys, much ado about nothing, the scraper took the marks off no problemo.