A lot of people like to use a ballpoint pen. I do not. Marking up the tracing paper w/ ink always bugged me as I’d get it on my hands and ultimately on the project. I tried various sculpting tools settling on the rounded point end of a Schein PFI W3. No clue if these are available anymore, I think it’s an old 80’s dental tool. I imagine there are equivalent tools on the market.
Some other tools I tried:
- multiple flat tipped sculpting tools
- the almost-bladed nature of the tools made it impossible to get smooth curves
- ball tools
- Could work, but mine were always to wide in diameter. You’d have to find a really small one
- dull sculpting blades
- would just cut through the tracing paper
- would just cut through the tracing paper
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