I went to Tractor Supply Co. and saw an engraving pen on sale for $2.29 each. I bought 4 for a lifetime of usage. On the way home and stopped at Home Depot and bought a roll of Aluminum sheet for $8. I used a serrated scissor and cut it up to several hundred tags and engraved all the new grafted varieties before the rain wash all the ink off the temporary labels.
Tony
Very nice Toney, as you know the more multi grafts you have the more complicated it gets keeping track. I didn’t realize how confusing it can be until be until I started grafting onto grafts from the year before.
Looks great Tony. Those engravers still on sale? I’ll have to pick some up.
I am not sure if the Tractor Supply Co in your area still have them on clearance in the back anymore. I also bought a few nice old pocket knive sets for $4.99 and the original price was $14.99.
Tony
I saw those at our local TSC a couple of weeks ago and just about bought one, but wondered how well they would work and the if it would last for more than a few labels?
I have an engraving bit for my Dremel tool but it is harder to use that like a “writing pen” due to the size of the of Dremel.
It works real well and easy just like normal writing. I did 50 labels in about 10 minutes. It used 2 AA batteries.
Tony
@tonyOmahaz5. That pen and aluminum tags looks like the way to go. I was going to google your pen but couldn’t read the container label. Thanks, Bill
Thanks, Bill
