Yeah, basically scraping and reshaping the wax back into a flat shape. Not sure how much you can get away with before that gets more complicated and how your type of stylus impacts it (see metal or wood available, would guess metal might steal fewer bits of wax).
‘Tabula rasa’ is from ‘scraped tablet’, which seems like it might’ve worked decently well for those used to it. I’m sure contrast is lower on pigmented wax that’s soft enough to erase compared to chalk on a slate, but … chalk sounds aren’t my thing and neither are dry erase smells, so I’ve thought about trying it. Usually use a paper notebook that I don’t erase for most things, though.
Wax tablets with a stylus are a historic solution but I haven’t actually tried one yet. If I do I’ll come back with a review.
How do you erase what you’ve written/drawn?
The stylus has a flat spatula-type device at the not pointy end, that you use for erasing.
Sorry – how does the “flat spatula-type device” ‘erase’? Does it just smooth the indentations made in the wax?
Yeah, basically scraping and reshaping the wax back into a flat shape. Not sure how much you can get away with before that gets more complicated and how your type of stylus impacts it (see metal or wood available, would guess metal might steal fewer bits of wax).
‘Tabula rasa’ is from ‘scraped tablet’, which seems like it might’ve worked decently well for those used to it. I’m sure contrast is lower on pigmented wax that’s soft enough to erase compared to chalk on a slate, but … chalk sounds aren’t my thing and neither are dry erase smells, so I’ve thought about trying it. Usually use a paper notebook that I don’t erase for most things, though.
Cool idea, I like the historic and low-tech aspect. I will look into it.