I forgot to mention that a lot of people are just bad at snapping lines and they end up with really fat, fuzzy lines. Changing the line probably won't help.
If this is your trouble, try 2 things. After you pull the line tight, hold the smart end away from the work and lightly pluck it to remove excess chalk. Now you shouldn't have so much chalk on the surface of the string that it spreads out on contact. Instead, the chalk "in" the string will be all that is laid down.
And number B. When actually snapping the line, most people snap it way too hard and the chalk scatters -- some goes off in the wind and the rest is scattered out making a faint, fat, fuzzy line. A really good carpenter once told me to drop the line. that's a pretty good way to think about it. Pick it up 8 or 10 inches and drop it. Some of the high performance line has a ton of stretch, so I'm not sure if these rules apply to them.
Around here, we have a saying when somebody snaps a bad line.
"It may be faint, but at least it's fat."
Last edited by Gabel; 01/17/08 01:15 PM.
