The Erasable Podcast

Gestalt App — join the beta!

Pencil & Paper’s custom Field Notes

J Herbin Vert Pre ink

Iroshizuku chiku-rin ink

Kyukyodo

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 234: Bearded and Abroad

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Johnny Gamber) — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:13:19 +0000

Episode 233: The Dark Side of STEM (with special guest Ian Schon)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:26:01 +0000

We’re back, after two months away! Sorry for the silence, friends. But we think we have something really special for you — a guest we’ve wanted to come on the show for almost 6 years. It’s Ian Schon of SCHONDSGN, a craftsman who makes incredible, unique fountain pens. We’re talking about his journey to starting his own company, design and engineering challenges that fountain pens present, and his foray into his greatest challenge; making the Monoc, his own fountain pen nib from bars of titanium.

Show Notes & Links

Erasable at the Baltimore Pen Show after party at Write notepads

Schon DSGN

Embassy pen

Auxiliary Mammals

Schon DSGN Kickstarter

Our Guest

Ian Schon
SCHONDSGN website
@schon_dsgn on Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 232: Wide Nut Swamp Ash

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:38:21 +0000

Episode 231: Stocking up on Scalpels

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:11:56 +0000

Happy October! This very autumnal episode is a short one — just some fresh points and tools of the trade. Johnny’s playing too much Mario Kart World, Andy regales us with his trip to New York City, and Tim is designing a thuper thecret notebook. Plus: we talk about some new Field Notes and feel very old because of the new Blackwing Eras.

Episode 230: The Hobonichi To-Do (with special guest Tyler McCall from Pencil & Paper)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 22:40:59 +0000

We’ve got a special episode today. Tyler McCall, co-owner of Chicago stationery shop Pencil & Paper, joins us to talk about the havoc caused by the Trump administration’s chaotic tariff policies. These policies aren’t just hurting small businesses like Tyler’s — they’re also driving up costs and creating disruptions for everyday consumers in ways you might not expect. This conversation is for anyone who cares about supporting local shops, stationery or otherwise. And if you’re in Chicago, be sure to stop by Tyler’s store in Andersonville.

Episode 229: Fresh Points of Bel Air Part 491043

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:15:22 +0000

Happy International Workers Day, everyone! If you get a long weekend, we really hope you make the most of it. (Andy’s going to the SF Pen Show, for example!) Before we go off and celebrate, we’re coming atcha with some new Fresh Points, including some new Blackwings, a cool film camera, and the question that plagues our minds, “why is loose leaf paper so terrible?”.

Show Notes and Links

Mission Impossible Final Reckoning

AEnima by Tool

In Case You Were Napping by Puscifer

True Writer Killarney fountain pen

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders

Slow Horses

Snipe Hunter by Tyler Childers

San Francisco Pen Show

Monoc Evo by Schon Design

Your Hosts

Johnny GamberPencil Revolution

Andy Welfleandy.wtf

Tim Wasem

Episode 228: We All Have a Little Graphite In Us (with special guest Allison King, author of "The Phoenix Pencil Company")

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:34:58 +0000

We have a very special episode for you today, folks. We’re joined by Allison King, a novelist who recently published The Phoenix Pencil Company, a multi-generational story about Chinese-American women, data privacy, surveillance, LGBT love, and… pencils! We read the book and loved it, and Allison is here to answer some questions. If you want a copy for yourself, you can buy it at this link, or preferably at your local bookstore.

Warning: this episode contains spoilers! If you’re reading, or intending to read this book, you might want to wait until you finish it to listen to this episode.

Show Notes and Links

Last Boat Out of Shanghai

A Tale for the Time Being

Empire of AI

Our Guest

Allison King
Allison's Website @allisonkingwrites on Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 227: No Canoodling at Walden

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:07:52 +0000

After a month full of travel from our intrepid hosts, involving everything from counterfeit theatre tickets to marriage proposals to a literal train wreck, we’re back to regale each other with stories from our travels, and, of course, the stationery we picked up along the way. Plus, we announce a future book club episode with The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King.

Show notes and links

Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King

Untitled Goose Game book

Animal Crossing book

Paris France by Gertrude Stein

Andor Season 2

The Bureaucratic Banality of Andor | RonBronson.design

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series

Charley Crockett

Somebody Feed Phil

Is a River Alive?

Remix Album from The Cure

Johnny’s Pride journals

Nahvalur Verdigris Muse fountain pen

Erasable logo hats

Erasable Eraser Friend lapel pin

Your Hosts

Johnny GamberPencil Revolution

Andy Welfleandy.wtf

Tim Wasem

Episode 226: Hot n Early

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:56:58 +0000

The summer limited editions are out early this year! Join us for the scoop on two releases from Blackwing, some very watery Field Notes, and finally — you can buy our newest Erasable merch!

Show notes and links

Erasable Eraser Friend pin

Erasable logo corduroy hat

Orbital

Andor Season 2

Doctor Who Series 14

Levenger True Writer in Sapphire Mosaic

Diamine Sapphire Blue

Field Notes Summer Tote

Field Notes Is a River Alive?

Is a River Alive? By Robert MacFarlane

New Field Notes box art

The artist and his pencil sharpener collection

Blackwing Labs 05.13.26 pencils

Blackwing Labs 05.13.26 notebook

Blackwing Volume 140

Andy

Johnny/Pencil Revolution

Your Hosts

Johnny GamberPencil Revolution

Andy Welfleandy.wtf

Tim Wasem

Episode 225: Justin Timberlake Was Supposed to Be Here

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:15:00 +0000

May is upon is, and we’re here with a short one, discussing our tools of the trade, and some fun fresh points — Johnny talked about his sugar cane notebooks for Earth Day, and Andy introduced some new spring Erasable swag for 2025 (Stay tuned!)

Show Notes & Links

The Birthday Massacre’s Sleep Tonight

Where the Crawdads Sing

Bullet Journal 2.0 2023 Artist Edition

Chiikawa

When We Were Real

Where the Axe is Buried

Led Zeppelin by Bob Spitz

Bad Monkey Soundtrack

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

Sugar Cane paper notebooks at Pencil Revolution Press

Makers Cabinet

Elipso Kickstarter

IRIS Large Format

Timberlines on Substack (Blog of Charles Berolzheimer, CEO of Blackwing)

Your Hosts

Johnny GamberPencil Revolution

Andy Welfleandy.wtf

Tim Wasem

Episode 224: Keep That Eye Jelly

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:48:37 +0000

To celebrate our podcast turning 11 last month, we’re traveling back in time to channel our 11 year-old selves, and examine what stationery meant to us as Little Guys.

Show Notes and Links

“The Chicago Look” Field Notes

Bon Iver Field Notes

Nahvalur Original Plus

Nahvalur Nautilus Ti Black

Andy’s Yikes blog post

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution

Andy Welfle
andy.wtf

Tim Wasem

Episode 223: We Use Glasses Like Civilized People

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:59:43 +0000

Today’s episode is a short one — Tim’s out, and Johnny and Andy talk about some of their new pencil hauls (including a Pentel Black Polymer 999 that Andy’s particularly excited about). Johnny gets civilly disobedient (more so than usual, that is) in his reading from his zilbaldoni.

Show Notes and Links

The Erasable Podcast Discord

Andy’s new blog, Asterisms

The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution

Andy Welfle
andy.wtf

Tim Wasem

RErasable: Episode 106 with Musgrave Pencil Company’s Henry Hulan

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:18:26 +0000

Welcome to the first installment of Re-rasable, a new series where we resurface some of our most memorable episodes and interviews from the past ten years.

For this inaugural edition, we’re rewinding to Episode 106 and our conversation with Henry Hulan, Chairman of the Musgrave Pencil Company. This interview was a true highlight, giving us a rare inside look at the history and craftsmanship of American pencil-making. Even more exciting, it led to the creation of the Musgrave Single Barrel 106—a pencil made from vintage red cedar and numbered after this very episode!

Join us as we revisit this special moment in Erasable history.

Links & Resources

The Erasable Podcast – erasable.us
Musgrave Pencil Company – musgravepencil.com
Musgrave on Instagram – @musgravepencil
Musgrave on Facebook – facebook.com/musgravepencil

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a fellow pencil nerd! Thanks for listening, and stay tuned for more Re-rasable episodes to come.

Episode 221: I Found Some Dorks!

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:52:42 +0000

We’re back for the New Year, with a ton of Fresh Points and Tools of Our Trade -- and the first sections from our Zibaldoni!

Show Notes & Links

Ali Serra’s Blackwing extender

ADHD is awesome

Staying Alive by Neil Astley

Port Protection TV series

Vintage Field Notes

Draplin’s “Turquoise Tribute” Field Notes

Episode 220: A Very Soft Triangle

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:26:35 +0000

For our last episode of 2024, we came together to talk about some of our favorite Tools of the Trade from the last year. Andy recounts his trip to Hawaii and Tim talks about a new segment we’re starting next year.

For this episode, we recorded video, available to Patreon subscribers! If you’re a patron, head over to Patreon to see our faces and visual examples of many of the things we discuss. And if you’re not a patron, join us at any level and you can see this and other supplemental content at any time!

Show Notes and Links

Erasable Patreon

Long After Dark Tom Petty notebook and Pen

Field Notes: Vintage

Nahvalur Christmas 2024 pen

Blackwing Lab 11.19.24

More Adam Savage pencil hunting

How to ADHD

Nahvalur Nautilus fountain pens

Diamine Onyx

Musgrave Harvest Pro

Best American Food/travel writing

Moonbound

Three Body Problem Trilogy

Stories are Weapons

iA Writer Notebook

Your Hosts

Johnny GamberPencil Revolution@pencilution

Andy WelfleWoodclinched@andy.wtf on Bluesky

Tim Wasem@TimWasem

Episode 219: Indiana Area Code Day

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:19:59 +0000

Today on the show, we have a much needed catch up, with a freewheeling discussion around Tools of the Trade and Fresh Points. We cover the new Blackwing 574, the Field Notes Dream Journals, Bluesky, and even talk about something Andy's only dreamed of — Star Trek wine.

Show Notes & Links

Arab Strap band

Gangs of London TV series

Stardew Valley

It. Goes. So. Fast. : The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

Field Notes Dream Journal Gift Set

Made in Baltimore

Blackwing 574

Find us on Bluesky!

@andy.wtf

@timwasem@bsky.social

@johnnygamber@bsky.social

The Stationery Folk Starter Pack

Eberhard Faber Permapoint 182

Star Trek wine advent calendar!

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@andy.wtf on Bluesky

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 218: I Want To Go To There

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:54:50 +0000

For this shorter episode, we’re fighting our pre-US election anxiety by talking about handwriting in digital notebooks. Johnny had a few questions about it that we didn’t have time to ask Roland in the last episode, so instead he turned to Andy and Tim, both who have some experience writing on a tablet with a stylus, to learn the ins and outs of digital writing.

Show Notes and Links

The Far Side by Gary Larson

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 217: Posh Blond English Protagonist (with author Roland Allen)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:24:08 +0000

Tonight, for our special Erasable Book Club episode, we discuss the new book The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. And who else better to discuss it with, than the book’s author himself, Roland Allen! Roland joins us from the UK to talk about how he researched the book, how the structure of it came to be, and especially to geek out about his favorite notebook and writing utensils.

Show Notes and Links

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

Uniball Micro UB150

Stalogy notebooks at Jetpens

Our Guest

Roland Allen
Roland-Allen.com
@notebook_historian on Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 216: Roll On the Wrap On

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:37:15 +0000

Tonight we catch up on some Tools of the Trade, from watching too much British TV, to the Allman Brothers. We look at the latest Blackwing release, compare ADHD to stationery, and Andy recaps his trip to Europe. And finally, we reveal our next book club book, which we’ll talk about in the next episode!

If you want to follow along in our book club discussion, pick up a copy of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen. We’ll be discussing it for episode 217, coming out the week of October 7, 2024.

Show Notes and Links

Drunk On All Your Strange New Words

Our book club selection: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen

The Power Broker

Episode 215: I Got Spinners on my Xacto (with special guest Leslie Herger)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:40:18 +0000

During our Decade of Pencilcasting celebration, a few folks mentioned that we should talk more about art pencils, and our good friend Leslie Herger from the RSVP Podcast and Comfortable Shoes Studio joined us to do just that!

Show Notes and Links

Comfortable Shoes Studio
Less is More Healthy

XOXO 2024 Field Notes

Gentleman Stationer Shop

Nahvalur Aqua Regia and Terra Firma

Uni-Ball Zento

Pilot Precise: Harmony

Comfortable Shoes Studio

Less is More Healthy

Less’s Kofi

Less’s YouTube recommendations:

Our Guest

Less Herger

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 214: Original Poison Core

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 17:49:26 +0000

In this episode, we;re taking a break from rooting for Team USA to check in with a midsummer episode about some fun new Blackwings, the latest Field Notes release, and a rousing round of Tools of the Trade to see what we’ve been listening to, reading, and writing with.

Show notes and links

Sturgill Simpson GQ Profile

Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir

Jason Hardy Songs

Jason Isbell Field Notes

Stephen Wilson Jr. - Son of Dad

Microtomic Blackwing Eras

Robert Brighton Blackwings

Field Notes Index edition

Narwhal Original Plus in Lovina Graphite

Diamine Midnight Hour

Hitide DTLA

Episode 213: These Colors DO Run

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:32:22 +0000

On this episode of Erasable, the guys are trying to muster as much patriotic spirit as they can and talk about some of their favorite American-made stationery brands. From JR Moon to Write Notepads, there are still some good quality products made between American shores. Plus: Updates from Blackwing, Andy’s trip to Seattle, and more!

Show Notes and Links

Quintessence: The Quality of Having It

Born in the USA

J. R. Moon

General Pencil Company

Musgrave Pencil Company

Blackwing 746 Collection

Jason Isbell Field Notes

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 212: Jimmy Neutron Zine Scene

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:18:57 +0000

After a few weeks of different mixes of hosts and guests, we’re back as The Terrific Trio tonight, talking about the latest Tools of the Trade and Fresh Points.

Show Notes and Links

Writers Playing Video Games

Star Trek Discovery

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Suits

Daisy Jones and the Six

Blake Mills "If I'm Unworthy"

Navel Gazing

Under the Bridge

Guild of Bookworkers Newsletter Archive

Playlist to win a custom journal from Johnny

XOXO Fest 2024

Stephen Sondheim Auction:

OLD old Blackwings

Old and new Blackwings

Pocket Bullet Journal

New Narwhal pens” Spring Nautilus and Pride Editions

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 211: Eating Chicken Soup From A Stormtrooper Helmet

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 14 May 2024 23:15:16 +0000

Tonight, Andy and Johnny are chatting, sans Tim, about some of the recent spring releases from Field Notes and Blackwing, recap Andy’s trip to The Happiest Place on Earth™ (hint: it involves many many pressed pennies) and they even talk about $75 minimalist notebooks.

Show Notes and Links

Levenger True Writer Origins

Three Body Problem on Netflix

Three Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu

The Core of an Onion by Mark Kurlansky

Disney pressed pennies

Jerry Garcia neckties

Fancy iA Writer Notebook

Field Notes Flora Edition

Blackwing Volume 710

Independent Bookstore Day 2024 Blackwings

Deadest Prints Field Notes

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 210: A Box of Flamingos (with special guest Carol Beggy)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:29:13 +0000

This is a fun episode, folks. We’re joined by Carol Beggy, a longtime listener, group member, newspaper journalist, and author of “Pencil”, one of the latest books in the Bloomsbury Object Lessons book series, joins us to talk about her book and the object of all of our affections. We chat about the wonders of the newspaper supply cabinet of the 1900s, Thoreau, collecting pencils, and much, much more.

Show Notes and Links

Pencil (Object Lessons, by Carol Beggy)

Object Lessons series

John C. Burke

Portage Reporter Notebooks

China markers

The Transcendentalists and Their World

Our Guest

Carol Beggy

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 209: Potato Podcast Content

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:30:38 +0000

It’s been ten years, folks. In this episode, we talk to some of our favorite recurring guests — Brad Dowdy, Caitlin Elgin, Les Herger, and Caroline Weaver — and reminisce about the last decade. We even have a cool swag bag that you can buy to help us celebrate! Plus, way more potato content than you probably wanted.

Show Notes and Links

All About The Musette Bag

Pen Addict

Comfortable Shoe Studio

Caitlin Elgin

The Locavore (Caroline’s latest venture)

Potato Pencil Lovin’ (a song about making a potato pencil written by AI, prompted by Tim)

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 208: A Watershed Episode

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:36:37 +0000

Today’s episode is a short one — as we prepare for a bigger 10-year anniversary episode, we spent some time talking about our tools of the trade, and really focusing on the pencils and paper we’re using lately.

A quick note: We’re getting ready to produce a gift for our Nubbin Stage Patreon supporters! We can’t reveal it yet, but it’s so cool. If you’re a current supporter at that level, please update your shipping address! And if you want to get in on it, please sign up for an annual plan at our Patreon before March 11, 2024!

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 207: The Old Country Buffet of the Mind

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:22:48 +0000

Andy is back from the other side of the globe, where he visited Japan looking for adventures —and stationery! Tonight, Johnny and Tim team up to grill Andy about his trip, and best yet — they’re in the same room!

If you’re a Patreon member at any level, you can watch video of this episode at patreon.com/erasable.

Show Notes and Links

Photos from Andy’s trip

Shift Happens by Marchin Wichary

Pencil, by Carol Beggy

Blue Lights

How to ADHD

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 206: All Reachers Great and Small

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:02:23 +0000

Happy 2024, friends! We’re starting off with the first episode of the new year with a Fresh Points episode, talking about some of the cool new stuff to hit the market since we last recorded — Draplin’s Tactile Turn pen collab, Blackwing Volume 2, Studio Neat’s Keepbook, and more.

Show Notes and Links

James, Be Opened by the Wonderful

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life

Feel Something, Make Something

Dr. Who Xmas Special

A History of Wild Things

Night After Night by Daniel Tashian

Nahvalur Nautilus

Blackwing Volume 2

Draplin pen!

Zines! (andy.supply!)

Star Trek playing cards!

Keepbook by Studio Neat

Stuff That Works Journal

Musgrave Songwriter Set

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 205: Blood Erasers

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:21:27 +0000

As we wrap up 2023, Johny, Tim and Andy talked about tools that they used unexpectedly more than overs over the year. From Very Old Ticonderoga’s to dinosaur tape dispensers, there are some old reliables and some newcomers on this list. Happy holidays!

This episode is available with video for active patrons supporting the show at any level over on Patreon.

Show Notes and Links

Musgrave Songwriter

Doctor Who Specials

Three Body Problem

Andy’s zine shop

Whiskey Advent Calendar

Jeff Tweedy World Within a Song

Crossing To Safety

Bodies (TV Series)

How Not to Kill Yourself

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 204: Shimmery and Sheeny

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:11:44 +0000

It’s been a while, and a lot of stuff has come out since we last podcasted as our True Selves. We’re rectifying that tonight, as we check out the latest releases from Field Notes and Blackwing. Join us and find out what we’ve been up to!

Show Notes and Links

Volume 17, the Gardening Pencil

BIRCH BARK

HEARTLAND

Blackwing “Buy Our Trash” Labs

Blackwing/Moleskine Collab

Theory11 playing cards

The Importance of Not Being Ernest by Mark Kurlansky

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 203: The Erasable Spellcast, Part 3: Mountain Dew Eldritch Blast™

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:10:58 +0000

Presenting Part 3 of our Dungeons & Dragons campaign with Dungeon Master Monica Corwin! If you’d like to see a video of this adventure, episodes 200 201, 202, and our other D&D episodes, support us at any level on Patreon.

Join our band of travelers — Ralph, Sam, and Andrøs — as they worm their way out of the wormling fight in the (literal) dungeon for the third and final installment of our D&D campaign! Who are the metal dragons? How do they defeat them? Will they save Graphia and their (quite literally) erasable world?

Your Dungeon Master

Monica Corwin
Website | Amazon | Instagram

Our Adventurers

Ralph Rex
as portrayed by Johnny Gamber

Samik Stoneback
as portrayed by Tim Wasem

Andrøs Goldenbear
as portrayed by Andy Welfle

Episode 202: The Erasable Spellcast, Part 2: Waking up with an Elvish Coffee

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 02:37:31 +0000

Presenting the second part of our Dungeons & Dragons campaign with Dungeon Master Monica Corwin! If you’d like to see a video of this adventure, episodes 200 and 201, and our other D&D episodes, support us at any level on Patreon.

Our intrepid heroes are back! Ralph Rex, Samik Stoneback, and Andrøs Goldenbear officially enter the mysterious forests of Graphia, and try to solve puzzles, fight golems, and understand which dice to roll, under the fearless tutelage of Dungeon Master Monica Corwin! Tune in for the second part of The Erasable Spellcast, our celebration of 200 episodes and more than 9 years of podcasting.

Your Dungeon Master

Monica Corwin
Website | Amazon | Instagram

Our Adventurers

Ralph Rex
as portrayed by Johnny Gamber

Samik Stoneback
as portrayed by Tim Wasem

Andrøs Goldenbear
as portrayed by Andy Welfle

Episode 201: The Erasable Spellcast, Part 1: You Gave It Your Awl

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:46:25 +0000

The first part of our Dungeons & Dragons campaign with Dungeon Master Monica Corwin gets underway! If you’d like to see a video of this adventure, episode 200, and our other D&D episodes, support us at any level on Patreon.

Embark on an epic journey in the enshrouded realm of Graphia, a land veiled in ancient curses and enigma. As darkness threatens to engulf this mystic plane, a brave band of adventurers rallies together, fueled by an unbreakable bond of friendship and a collective intellect that defies all odds. In a race against time, they forge ahead, relying on synergy and wit to navigate through veils of mystery and danger. Their ultimate quest: to unearth the legendary Eternal Quill and salvage not only the doomed land but their own fates as well. Will their camaraderie and ingenuity prevail, or will the shadows of Graphia consume all? Step into this thrilling saga and find out.

And coffee.

Your Dungeon Master

Monica Corwin
Website | Amazon | Instagram

Our Adventurers

Ralph Rex
as portrayed by Johnny Gamber

Samik Stoneback
as portrayed by Tim Wasem

Andrøs Goldenbear
as portrayed by Andy Welfle

Episode 200: The Erasable Spellcast, Part 0

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:31:19 +0000

🪄 A D&D adventure, with Dungeon Master Monica Corwin 🐉

These guys are characters. For our two hundredth episode, we wax a bit nostalgic and also begin a new adventure: Along with a seasoned Dungeon Master Monica Corwin, we’re making D&D characters for a pencil themed campaign (which you’ll hear in our next couple of episodes)! A quick note: Patreon subscribers will be able to watch video of this episode and our further D&D episodes! Subscribe at any level and see our lovely faces.

Our Guest

Monica Corwin
Website | Amazon | Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 199: Pencils Under the Table (with special guest Aaron Bartholmey)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:44:36 +0000

In this episode, the penultimate of the first 200, we’re excited to have the impending Guiness World Record holder for the largest pencil collection, Aaron Bartholmey. Aaron is also the Secretary-Treasurer of one of our favorite organizations, the American Pencil Collector Society. He talks with us about his collection, counting it for the record, and of course, getting involved with the APCS.

Show Notes and Links

Erasable Patreon

American Pencil Collectors Society

Interview with Aaron in the Associated Press

Interview with Aaron in the Washington Post

Guinness World Records

Current Record Holder for Largest Collection of Pencils

Our Guest

Aaron Bartholmey
PencilCollector.org

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 198: Shout Out to Linda

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:50:12 +0000

Much as with our retrospective on Blackwings Volumes editions last episode, today we’re taking a look back at the Field Notes releases we’ve gotten since around the beginning of the pandemic.

Show Notes and Links

Le Voyageur from Write Notepads & Co.

Mitsubishi Uni “hahatoco” cat themed pencils!

Pencil penrose (aka our tattoos) pins from Tim Belonax

Vignette

Heavy Duty

United States of Letterpress

Signs of Spring

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 197: A Shocking Lack of Knowledge

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:33:15 +0000

We always offer hot takes on each Blackwing Volumes release. But how do things look when we step back a little and look again with some more context and perspective? Tune in as we talk about the last few years of Blackwing Volumes, give our spicy and mild takes, and give each volume a grade.

Show Notes and Links

Blackwing Pencil Release Guide

Basquiat on American Masters

Adam Savage’s Indiana Jones notebook replica

Volume 840: Surfer Dude and the Coast

Volume 3: Ravi Shankar

Volume XIX: The 19th Amendment

Volume 6: Independent Businesses

Volume 223: Woodie Guthrie

Volume 64: Comics

Volume 651: Bruce Lee

Volume 93: Corita Kent

Volume 200: Coffeehouses

Volume 55: The Golden Ratio

Volume 7: Animation

Volume 192: The Lennon and McCartney

Volume 20: Tabletop Games

Volume 57: The Basquiat Pencil

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 196: Full of Expletives

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 04:30:48 +0000

Today, we have a full episode of just the Tools of the Trade. Skip this if you don’t want to hear about the 16 different albums Tim is listening too, what gritty British crime dramas Johnny’s watching, or what books Andy says he’s reading. Plus: the greatest concert film ever made, starring Seth Rogan.

Show Notes and Links

Boygenius

New Jason Isbell album next week!

Theo Katzman Be the Wheel

Cocaine and Rhinestones

Guardians of the Galaxy 3

The Diplomat

Transatlantic

A Small Light

The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

Hidden Systems by Dan Nott

Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders

Don't Tell Anyone the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams

This Wheel's On Fire by Levon Helm

Otherwise: New & Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon

Beach Badge zine

The Overstory

Keith Smith books

Bellroy tech Dopp kit

Tom Bihn Side Hustle

Platinum Plaisir

Blackwing Eras 2022

Musgrave Pencil Knot notebook

Levenger True Writer Kyoto

Official LT1917 pen

That Field Notes dad thing

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 195: Flaubert with a Chicago Accent (with special guest Jay Newton)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 18 May 2023 03:12:24 +0000

We’re celebrating National Poetry Month a month too late, but we think it’s always time to celebrate poetry. To that end, we’ve invited Jay Newton, long-time listener and Erasable Poet Laureate, onto the show to talk about his new chapbook, Effigies, and how he thinks about and creates poetry. We also celebrate silly little limericks by pitting Jay against ChatGPT to write extremely specific pencil limericks.

Show Notes and Links

Field Notes Cityscapes

New Zelda Game

Musgrave’s The Party Bugle

New Musgrave Shorthand Notebook in BLUE

Magic Ink markers

Big ol’ pressed penny notebook

Baronfig Venture Backpack 3.0

PennyCollector.org

Limerick Showdown

Here are the poems that we asked Jay and ChatGPT to write. Read them and judge them!

Limerick about the struggle of using a pencil with an off-center core (from Donny Pearce)

ChatGPT:

With graphite askew, pencil's no fun,

Off-center core makes writing undone.

The lines dance in strife,

Disrupting the life,

Of precision, alas, it's all gone.

Jay:

If there’s one thing I simply abhor,

It’s a stick with an off-center core.

It may write as smoothly as Lapis Lazuli

But some things I just can’t ignore.

Limerick about how the Field Notes pencils should be better than they are (from Donny Pearce)

Jay:

The pencil from Draplin is lacking.

Does he not have financial backing?

It scratches the page

Like a one-million H

While Musgrave is counter-attacking.

ChatGPT:

Field Notes pencils, touted with cheer,

But their performance fails, I do fear.

Smoothness they lack,

Graphite too slack,

In need of improvement, that's clear.

Limerick about how there are only so many words that actually rhyme with “pencil” (from Kathy Rogers)

ChatGPT:

"Pencil," a word we oft rhyme,

Yet choices are limited, no time.

Stenciled, essentials,

Potential, credentials,

Options are scarce, yet sublime.

Jay:

A brooding baboon with a pencil,

Could trace, with his tail, a stencil.

He found it intriguing

That he was a Being

Both prehensile and existential.

Our Guest

Jay Newton

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 194: It's Almost a Blurple

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 02:18:40 +0000

We’re here, smack in the middle of National Poetry Month, to read and discuss a few of our favorite poems. We also rap about the latest Field Notes and Blackwing releases, and more!

Show Notes and Links

General Pencil Co. Cedar Pointe

Magic Wand Pencils

Baron Fig Squire Oracle

Baron Fig Squire Draft

Blackwing Volume 20

Field Notes Streetscapes

Poems of Healing

Almost Cha-Cha (Brett Elizabeth Jenkins)

The Changing Light (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)

“The Cinnamon Peeler’s Wife” (Michael Ondaatje)

“Having It Out with Melancholy” (Jane Kenyon)

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 193: Illicit Blackwing Ring

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:40:20 +0000

Every once in a while, we like to update one of the most popular features on our website: Our personal Top Five Pencils list. As we stare down nine years on the airwaves, see how much — or how little — has changed.

The Guys’ Top 5 Pencils Spring 2023

Andy

Palomino Golden Bear

Hi-Class Golden Sword 2B

Tim

Musgrave Tennessee Round

Mitsubishi 9852EW

Palomino HB

Johnny

Musgrave Tennessee Red

California Republic Palomino (capped version)

Eberhard Faber / FaberCastell American / American Naturals

Whatever pencil I’m using

Show Notes and Links

General Pencil Co. Cedar Pointe

Shift Happens

Palomino Golden Bear

Hi-Class Golden Sword 2B

Musgrave Tennessee Round

Mitsubishi 9852EW/9852

Palomino HB

Musgrave Tennessee Red

California Republic Palomino (capped version)

Eberhard Faber / FaberCastell American/American Naturals

Top Dozen Pencils Zine

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 192: The Coptic Kid

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:27:19 +0000

Join us as we discuss some truly cool things from Musgrave, a delightful weird two-color pen, Jimmy Smits’s rise to galactic political fame, and why the Bic Cristal doesn’t deserve the hate it’s been getting on the internet.

Show Notes and Links

Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions

The Creative Act

McCartney 3,2,1

The Orville: New Horizons)

The Handmade Book Club

Minecraft

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Pencil King

Musgrave Cloth Gift Bag

Big Musgrave Notebook

Musgrave Duet Pens

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 191: The Musgrave Train

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:56:12 +0000

Tonight, we’re recapping 2022 on a positive note. We’ll be talking about our favorite things about the year, both in the Pencil World and out.

Show Notes & Links

Venture Brothers

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor

Irvine Welsh's Crime

Roaring Spring composition notebook

33 1/3 John Prime

Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road

Pencil King by Musgrave

Musgrave metal pencil sharpener

Blackwing Eras 2022

Iroshuzuku "Fuyu-gaki" ink

Draplin's Instagram post that mentions the Erasable Squire

Diamine Wild Strawberry

Uniball One

Robert Oster Lake of Fire

Field Notes Kraft Plus notebooks

Field Notes quarterly subscriptions

Pencil Revolution Press notebooks

Leuchtturm hardback notebooks

Tom Bihn medium Café bag

Deep Space Nineties

USPS stamps

Keychron keyboards

Fellow Stagg pour over coffee

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Mr. Jiu's chili crisp

Bluey

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 190: Where's Wasem?

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:01:38 +0000

At the end of Autumn, Andy and Johnny gather to give thanks and to chat about some recent news and developments in the stationery world, including the latest from Field Notes and Blackwing.

Show notes and links

Order Your Private Editions!

Bittersweet

Re-Bound

Our Good Friend Leslie

Magpie Murders

Best American Food Writing, 2022

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2022

The Good Place

Pluto TV

Field Notes “Kraft Plus”

Blackwing Labs 11.25.22

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 189: Harvesting Fresh Points

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Johnny Gamber) — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:12:55 +0000

Episode 188: All Aboard the Creativity Train (with special guest Joey Cofone)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 19:59:12 +0000

Tonight, we’re joined by special guest Joey Cofone, co-founder of Baronfig and author of The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius which comes out on October 18, 2022. Joey talks to us about how he turned his belief that creativity is not magic, it’s a skill that needs to be practiced. We discuss some universal truths — or laws — to creative work, and how he pulled them together into a book.

Show notes and links

Pre-Order The Laws of Creativity

Baronfig

Joey on Erasable, Ep. 62 and Ep. 74

Our Guest

Joey Cofone
JoeyCofone.com
Baronfig.com

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 187: Fickle Tim

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Johnny Gamber) — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:38:37 +0000

In this episode, we name names — discussing specific examples of books that we turn to when we need a creative boost. Find out about new careers, the SF Pen Show, Musgrave’s sharpener, and more!

Show notes and links

The Bookstore Issue of Pencil Revolution

Leuchtturm Pocket Notebooks

Musgrave Pencil Sharpener

Ron Carlson Writes a Story

The Writing Life

Several Short Sentences about Writing

How to Make Books

Hemingway: A Moveable Feast

Make Good Art

Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin

Content Design by Sarah Winters

Nicely Said

Gentleman Stationer reviews new Sanzen Tomoe River Paper

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 186: An Embarrassing Amount of Knowledge

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:44:02 +0000

This week, we kick off a multi-episode discussion about creativity, and in particular, books about creativity and the creative process. Today, we’re discussing what we look for in such books: Do we want practical tips? Do we want to be inspired? Maybe a little of both?

Show Notes and Links

What do Do When Someone Dies

Bright (Kiki Petrosino)

Petty: The Biography

The Way

Watchhouse (Duo)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Machines Like Me

Laws of Creativity by Joey Cofone

Make Good Art

Ron Carlson Writes a Story

The Messy Middle

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 185: Six Too Many Abs (with special guest Harry Marks)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 18:00:54 +0000

Join Johnny, Tim, and Andy as we invite a long-time friend of the show Harry Marks on, to talk about his new novel, The Library at the Center of the Earth, and his new job as a staff writer for Grim and Mild, a historical storytelling podcast network. We talk about creative writing, the importance of routines, and of course, frequent screaming on social media.

Show Notes & Links

The Library at the Center of the Earth

Harry Marks online

The Prophet

Grim & Mild

Shelf Life: A Sitcom Podcast

Our Guest

Harry Marks
Linktree

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 184: David Sedaris at Walmart

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Johnny Gamber) — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:12:41 +0000

Episode 183: I Can Heal Your Soul, But Not Your Foot

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:31:11 +0000

Being ecologically-minded citizens of the world, we don't like the idea of just throwing away perfectly good paper and pencils. This is especially salient this time of year, when kids are bringing home piles of stuff from their desks and lockers. Tune in this week for a discussion of what to do with all that material.

Show Notes and Links

Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak

Don’t Go Without Me

James Patterson is a F---ing A$$hole

Petty: The Biography, American Heartbreak

Sketch Kits on Pencil Revolution

No More Pencils, No More Books: The School’s Out Issue of Pencil Revolution

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 182: Rob Thomas Over Here

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 21:22:17 +0000

It’s the unofficial start to summer in the United States, and we’re here with white pants and pencils to check in before school is out and everyone starts going on vacations. We cover lots of summer goodness, from Baronfig’s latest journal to cross-country hitchhiking.

Show Notes and Links

Patreon

The President Is Missing

Cruel Country by Wilco

Grace and Frankie

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

The Responder

The Interrupters

Atlanta Season 3

Gentleman Jack Season 2

The Cartographers (a novel)

Baronfig Draft

Also

Blackwing Obey

Harry Marks’ The Library at the Center of the Universe

Pencil Revolution Press Shop

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 181: That Qualifies as a Quest (with special guest Caroline Weaver)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:01:29 +0000

Before our upcoming book club, Caroline Weaver was kind enough to join us for an invigorating discussion about contemporary book clubs, and updates us on what’s going on in her world. Don’t forget to read up on Matthew Battles’ Palimpsest before the next episode in mid-May!

Show Notes & Links

The Orchard Street Reading Society

Caroline Weaver

Bobos in Paradise

Palimpsest

Google Form for Author Questions

Olga Dies Dreaming

Our Guest

Caroline Weaver
Website
Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 180: How the Sausage Is Made

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:26:01 +0000

We’re getting ready to launch into a few episodes discussing our book club book, Palimpsest, but before we do that, let’s have a short little episode to talk about Fresh Points and some cool stuff we’re reading, seeing and hearing. Plus, a poem for Johnny by Erasable Poet Laureate Jay Newton.

Show Notes and Links

Valentine by Bill Frisell

Before We Die

Kathy Abbott’s book on bookbinding

Endless Stationery

Codex Book Faire

Over-engineered pencils

Dylan Eakin on TikTok

Kiki Petrosino’s Bright pre-order

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 179: I am Also Pro Tree

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:41:58 +0000

Happy International Pencil Day, folks! It’s officially spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and we have some fun spring releases to discuss in all of their copper and yellow glory. Tune in for our quarterly look at the seasonal releases from some of our favorite brands.

Show Notes & Links

Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors

Vera

Palimpsest

Graphite Diaries

Eve of Destruction covers

Star Trek Picard

Field Notes “Signs of Spring”

Blackwing 200

Baron Fig Earth Day Squire

New Musgrave stickers

Musgrave Duet Pens

Baron Fig Play Stream Squire

Pencil Pusher zine project by Andrew Mecum

National Pencil Day Extravaganza!

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 178: It's Awl Good (with special guest Ashleigh Coaxum, owner of The Paper Herald)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 02:26:27 +0000

Tonight, the guys are joined by Ashleigh Coaxum, the proprietor of Baltimore’s newest stationery shop, The Paper Herald. Ashleigh talks about her stationery origin story, what it’s like to open a shop during the pandemic, and some of the cool stuff she stocks. Plus: new Field Notes, a book club announcement, and — don’t worry — plenty of bad puns.

Show Notes and Links

The Birthday of the World

The Paper Herald

Star Trek Picard

Storyteller

Mumford and Sons

This Day (Wendell Berry)

Hand Bookbinding: A Manual of Instruction

Vera

Field Notes Leap of Faith

True Writer History

Field Notes X USPS Title IX

Glass Nib Pen that Andy bought

Our Guest

Ashleigh Coaxum
The Paper Herald
Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 177: I Love the Feel of Cellulose in the Morning

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 20:33:39 +0000

Tonight, we are talking about the morning — morning pages, to be precise. We take a deep dive into Julia Cameron’s prescription for an enhanced creative life and talk about our own experiences with this practice.

Show Notes and Links

The Ministry for the Future

How to Do Nothing

The Art and Craft of Handmade Books

Around the World in 80 Days

Stephen Dunn’s Whereas

The Alchemist

Reacher

BIG THIEF BIG WARM MOUNTAIN I BELIEVE IN YOU

Blackwing Labs 2.22.22

The Miracle of Morning Pages

The War of Art

Julia Cameron in The New York Times

“This column will change your life: Morning Pages” in The Guardian

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 176: We Don't Talk About BuJo

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 01:54:40 +0000

We’re well into 2022, so we would be remiss if we didn’t talk about planners! We discuss how we keep track of appointment and to-dos, and whether or not we can avoid digital calendars (answer: no).

Show Notes and Links

Pencil Revolution Subscriptions

The Book of Boba Fett

A Lush and Seething Hell

The Pen Post Subscriptions

Pencil Revolution #25

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 175: I Guess I Like Ben Affleck?

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:28:58 +0000

It’s been a few weeks since you heard our voices, but we’re back for a fun new year of pencil podcasting! We go through some fresh points, like Johnny’s bookbinding supplies, Andy’s new desk, and Tim’s Try-Rex. Thanks for all of your support through 2021!

Show Notes and Links

The Missing

Letterpress + Pencil Revolution Zine

Harlem Shuffle

Write Notepads Dot Books

Escape to the Chateau

2021 Wordy Awards

Jarvis Standing Desk

Makers Cabinet Ferrule

Kabamaru | Hajime Okamoto

Dremel 4300

Plumbago Magazine

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 174: Anything but the Chipmunks! (with special guest Less Harper)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 04:10:09 +0000

Tonight, our good friend (and RSVP co-host) Less Harper joins us for a chat about bookbinding, the craft that she and Johnny practice to produce unique creations to hold our thoughts and sketches. We also talk about the new Field Notes, several new releases from Blackwing, and So Much More™.

Show Notes and Links

Musgrave Standard Writing Notebook

Comfortable Shoe Studio

RSVP Podcast

Pencil Revolution Press

Lucifer

Get Back

Call Us What We Carry

Field Notes “Ignition”

Blackwing Vol 93

DAS Bookbinding

Sea Lemon

Handmade Books Made Easy

Alisa Golden

Ester K. Smith

Keith A. Smith

Our Guest

Less Harper
Comfortable Shoes Studio
RSVP Stationery Podcast
@OriginalLCHarper on Twitter and Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 173: Unconvincing Wigs

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:39:14 +0000

This week, we’re looking back on 2021 and talking about what we’re most thankful for — both within the stationery community, and beyond. Plus, we take a look at some of the newest Blackwing X collabs, a few of the new Musgrave stuff, and a discussion around Wes Anderson’s new movie, which might be peak Wes Andserson.

Show Notes & Links

The War on Drugs I Don’t Live Here Anymore

The French Dispatch

The Searcher

Poems of Gratitude

The Long Call

Dopesick

The Next Thing You Eat

Axiom’s End

Biden and “I, Pencil”

Blackwing x Preservation Hall

Blackwing Composition Book

Rhodia Composition Books at Gentleman Stationer

Pencil Revolution Press Stationery

Musgrave Notebook

Musgrave Factory Seconds

Draplin x Freewaters Slippers

Canon Pixma G6020

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 172: National Zine Writing Month (with special guest Jemellia Hilfiger)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 04:41:56 +0000

It’s the annual EraNaNoWriMoSHOW! Join Andy, Johnny, Tim and special guest Jemellia for a discussion of NaNo’s past, present, and future.

Episode 171: We Fired Tim

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 21:01:56 +0000

Okay, not really! But for tonight it’s just Johnny and Andy, talking about just the Fresh Points. We have some new Field Notes, new Blackwings, a new Squire, and other cool things, including one (or two) last orders from our friends at CW Pencil Enterprise.

Show Notes & Links:

CW Pencils | Commemorative CWPE Advertising Pencil

CW Pencils | 2021 Shop Sticker by Meredith Miotke

CW Pencils | Grand Finale Emilio Braga A5 notebook

CW Pencils | Natural Baseball Scoring Pencil

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 170: Store-Bought Pencils

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:56:02 +0000

This week, Tim throws us a curveball. Last week, he asked us what our least favorite pencils are, and then he told us that we should only use that pencil for a couple weeks. In this episode, we discuss our experiences. Plus: a set of bummer fresh points, from a friend who lost his stash in a flood, to our favorite pencil store closing.

Show Notes and Links

On Closing | CW Pencil Enterprise blog

GoFundMe for Harry Marks

Zine Reviews in Broken Pencil Magazine: Depression and OCD

Target Up&Up Pencil

Bic Xtra Fun

Tombow 2558

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

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Episode 169: Bust Out the Bone Folder

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:35:24 +0000

Paper is paper, right? Well, only if you think that pencils are pencils. In this week’s episode, your hosts talk about Unicorn Paper — that special formulation that works well with both pencils and fountain pens. Plus: we discuss our LEAST favorite pencil, and Tim makes us write with them all week to discuss in our next episode.

Show Notes & Links

Only Murders in the Building

Mable John

Franny and Zooey

Musgrave Tennessee Round

Musgrave Greenbelt

Pencil Revolution #20

Plotter system

Southworth “Fine Paper” -- 25% cotton, 24lb (wove finish)

Southworth “Fine Paper” -- 100% cotton, 24lb (wove finish)

Southworth Parchment, 24lb (ivory)

Maruman classic spiral

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 168: Bring Us Your Weird

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Johnny Gamber) — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:07:46 +0000

This week, we are down one pencil podcaster and up one pen superpodcaster. Brad Dowdy of the Pen Addict joins us to tie up our trio while Andy is away for the week. ZINES! Ever since Ed Kemp launched Pencil of the Week a few years ago and, especially, since he was a guest on this podcast’s Episode 150, zines have been blowing up among stationery content creators and consumers. In this episode, Brad, Tim and Johnny chat about the connection between zines and stationery and the role that these self-published gems play in the larger stationery community.

Episode 167: Sadsplaining to Johnny

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 19:23:14 +0000

Join us for a chat about the pencils that we each used during elementary school. With a 9 year age gap between our hosts, coming during the crucial years of a trade agreement with China and the onset of the shrinking of the American pencil industry, we’re sure to have a variety of pencils to talk about! Plus: Olympics, new Field Notes, and many, many green ink samples.

Show Notes & Links

J. Herbin “Lierre Sauvage”

The Whole Love (Wilco)

Field Notes: Trailhead

Blackwing Lab .7.29.21

Pencil Revolution #19

The Pen Post #1

Playdate

Papermate Sharpwriter

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 166: Vacu-Sharp (Patent Pending)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:17:53 +0000

Well, we inadvertently took a summer break so after a month off, we’re back to talk through our collected Fresh Points: from the new Blackwing 64 to an update from Tim about how it’s going with his new electric sharpener.

Show Notes and Links

Killers of the Flower Moon

Pencil Revolution #18

Blackwing X Timeless Mug

San Francisco Pen Show Pencil Seminar

Iranian Pencil Store

Jessica Drenk

Blackwing 64

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 165: Someone to Squeal At (with special guest Caitlin Elgin)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 17:22:58 +0000

Do you write in your books? Tonight, our special guest Caitlin Elgin joins us to talk about marginalia — why you might want to write them, and how you might want to write them. In fact, one of use does not write in his books, and maybe we can convince him to start. Or not.

Show Notes and Links

JCS Criminal Psychology - The Wrath of Jodi

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

The Moss and Green / Corner Shop (High Tide)

Track Changes: A literary history of word processing

The Electric Pencil

Halston

Unforgiven

The marginal obsession with marginalia | The New Yorker

Our Guest

Caitlin Elgin
@cait.elgin on Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 164: They Had to Math That

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 26 May 2021 03:17:22 +0000

Tonight, we’re celebrating Field Notes’s fiftieth Colors edition — uh, Fifty — with a pocket notebook retrospective: How did we first encounter Field Notes? What’s our favorite editions for aesthetics? Color? Writing experience? Plus: an amazing new sampler pack from Musgrave.

Show Notes & Links

List of Field Notes Limited Editions

Field Notes: Fifty

Name of the Wind

Steal Like an Artist

1973 Grateful Dead (Dick’s Picks Vol. 14)

Keep Going

Thoreau, A Life of the Mind

Pencil Revolution #17

Fountain Pen accessory Kit from Jetpens

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 163: Fresh Points of Guinness

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 12 May 2021 19:00:04 +0000

Today we’re keeping it simple with just a Fresh Points episode, covering everything from Blackwing’s rerelease of a pencil they’re still selling, Bob Dylan’s pocket notebooks, pencil t-shirts, and a bevy of recommendations for what Andy should pick up after he finishes his current notebook.

Show Notes and Links

Ron Rash: New and Selected Poems

Steal Like an Artist

Brood X notebooks

The Comfort of a Pencil

How to Break in a Sharpie

Blackwing Palomino

Periwinkle Confidants

Deploy Confidant

Brand Name Pencils Etsy

iQuinix keyboard

Bob Dylan’s pocket notebooks

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 162: I'm Just a Person with a Website (with special guest Tiffany Babb)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:09:40 +0000

Today we talk about vintage notebooks, yet another new Blackwing, and mechanical keyboards. But also much to our delight, our friend and creative polymath Tiffany Babb joins the show to talk comics, literary criticism and creativity.

Show Notes and Links

Braided Creek by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison

Parker Millsap

Another Round

Victories Greater Than Death

Please Like Me

The Night Train to Lisbon

Requiem

Julien Baker

Notebook Therapy

Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

Independent Bookstore Day Blackwings

Brood X Notebooks

Our Guest

Tiffany Babb
TiffanyBabb.com
@explodingarrow on Twitter

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 161: Ecstatic Høvel Talk

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:41:13 +0000

Andy and Tim have wrested control of the show back away from the devious (yet iconic) duo of Johnny and Charlotte, and we’re talking once again to Noah Bier from Makers Cabinet about their brand new Kickstarter project, a pencil extender called The Ferrule.

Show Notes and Links

Episode 111: Eiffel Tower Points

The Ferrule on Kickstarter

The Best of Everly Brothers

Hemingway Documentary

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Burning the Books

How to Make a Journal of Your Life

Four Lost Cities

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Independent Bookstore Blackwing

Blackwing 223

PR Compendium

Our Guest

Noah Bier, Co-founder
Makers Cabinet

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 160: Pencil Ain't Forever

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Johnny Gamber) — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:26:09 +0000

You might notice something…strange about this week’s podcast. Do not adjust your podcatcher. What you are hearing is happening in Real Life and in Real Time.

YOUR PODCAST HAS BEEN USURPED.

PENCIL IS SILLY

Transcript

Charlotte: Charlotte. Do you need a pencil?

No, I have a pen.

(Erasable theme)

Johnny: Hello. Hello and welcome to Episode 160 of the former Erasable Podcast. I'm Johnny Gamber, broadcasting from a secret bunker under the Pencil Revolution Headquarters Compound. After over seven years of podcasting about pencils, my oldest child is now ruthless enough to help me in this non hostile takeover of Erasable.

Charlotte joins me tonight and she swears that she's excited to be here. Hey, Char!

Charlotte: Hello, Daddy. Thank you for having me.

Johnny: Thank you for joining me on a school night. So Charlotte, you recently completed a science project in which you explored the permanence of different writing media that folks rely on every day, and the results were frankly SHOCKING. And they prompted us to sell off all of our Blackwings so that we could buy more vintage Parker fountain pens, and antique French notebooks.

We've come to understand that pencils are just plain silly. Charlotte has kindly agreed to present her research tonight. In a short interview with her witty, brilliant, and handsome father. With apologies to Andy and Tim, from whom we are in hiding, we present the first episode of the Pen Punk Podcast.

Let's get down to business. Charlotte, your science project was pretty amazing, even though I tried pretty darned hard to stop you from exploring the idea that ink could ever possibly be more permanent than pencil. Can you tell us what your hypothesis was when you began this reckless endeavor?

Charlotte: Sure. Inks that people rely on will fade faster if they're exposed to light.

Johnny: Uh huh. And what made you want to stab your father in the back like that and write about ink?

Charlotte: I like ink more than pencil because it comes in many colors.

Johnny: Um, have you heard of colored pencils, child?

Charlotte: Yes, but colored pencils are useless for writing.

Johnny: Hmm. Says you. All right, so speaking of gear, let's geek out a little bit. What inks did you use? What kind of pen?

Charlotte: I use a dip pen, India ink. Bullet-proof ink, J. Herbin, Pearl Noire black fountain, pen ink, an InkJoy gel pen, a Parker Jotter ballpoint pen, and… that's it.

Johnny: That is a lot of stuff. So can you tell us briefly, at the beginning, what did you think would fade fastest or slowest?

Charlotte: I thought that India ink would fade less than the other inks.

Johnny: Huh? All right. Can you tell us about your process?

Charlotte: Sure. Get the inks and paper and put them together. Put one in sunlight and one in the dark. Leave them for about two weeks and then determine which ink faded the least.

Johnny: And, uh, what did you find out at the conclusion of your experiment?

Charlotte: I found that both ballpoint pen, ink and fountain pen ink faded.

Johnny: All right. Um, I have to ask, what about the pencil marks? Did they fade?

Charlotte: Well, no, but I wiped them out with an eraser in three seconds.

Johnny: All right. That's enough for me. Let's get some audience questions. First. We have a little guy named Henry from Baltimore who has a question for you.

Henry from Baltimore: But Charlotte, does this mean that you don't like pencils anymore?

Charlotte: Yes. Anything that can be erased with breadcrumbs isn't worth writing with.

Johnny: Hmm, good point. All right. We have another audience question, this time from Andy in San Francisco.

Andy: Yes. Hello, thank you for taking my call. Do you know how long of a line of ink a Bic Clic can write? I've been trying to test it and have been on the road for three days. It's hard because some roads are really dark asphalt, and it's really hard to see the ink. I appreciate your help. I miss my family!

Charlotte: According to my mole at BIC in France, 1.2 miles or two kilometres. Stay safe out there in the dark!

Johnny: That's good advice now all the way from Johnson city, Tennessee, we have another Henry.

Henry from Tennessee: Hi, this is Henry from Tennessee, and I have a question about pens and cold weather. What happens if you take one out in a snow storm?

Charlotte: Well, most inks are going to freeze up on you. Get yourself a Space Pen! They write in extreme weather, and their marks don't disappear if you touch them with rubber.

Johnny: Uh, is it true that the Russians used pencils?

Charlotte: No.

Johnny: Okay. Well, we have another question from Tennessee. This one is from Tim, from the 10 B School.

Tim: Hi, Charlotte. This is Tim from Johnson City, Tennessee. I was wondering if in your research you found out if certain colors of ink last longer than other colors of ink. Thanks for answering my question!

Charlotte: I know, from tattoos and automobiles, that red fades more quickly than other colors. But for your writing, you should be good with any ink that contains pigment instead of dye.

Johnny: I liked red all that time. So now, dialing in from the Bay Area on the West coast, we have Katie.

Katie from San Francisco: Hi Charlotte, it's Katie in San Francisco. Long time listener, first time caller. I'm so excited to have you help me out with my pen problems. So I have a combination of ballpoint pens and roller balls. I don't have any fountain pens. And I'm trying to figure out if I should be storing my pens with the point facing down into the pen cup or up. Thanks so much for your help.

Charlotte: Depends. Dry pens, tip down. Wet pens, tip up. But in the end, you do you.

Johnny: So we have a looks like another call from Tennessee. This is from Lila.

Lila from Tennessee: Hi, this is Lila from Tennessee. I'm wondering why pens dry out?

Charlotte: Inks only dry up when we are not honoring them by writing or drawing with them constantly.

Johnny: Well, I never thought about honoring my pens so it looks like we have one more comment from Rosie and Roland park. Go ahead, Rosie.

Rosie from Roland Park: You are gonna make me cryyyyy.

Charlotte: Go tell Mommy!

Johnny: All right! So thank you for joining us for episode one of the Pen Punk Podcast, and, assuming that Andy and Tim don't either find Charlotte and I or change the password on Squarespace, you’ll hear back from us in two weeks, when I think we're going to talk about our favorite spring colored inks. Take care and stay NOT ERASABLE.

Bye-bye

(closing theme)

Episode 159: Blackwing 100!

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:58:01 +0000

Since our recording schedule and the Blackwing and Field Notes quarterly release schedule didn’t line up, we’re keeping it short today to talk about fresh points: zines, old city street guides, and an exciting announcement about the 8th issue of Plumbago Magazine.

Show Notes & Links:

The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer

Cat Party zines

Taco Chronicles

Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime

Band of Joy

Raya and the Last Dragon

Pencil Revolution #15

404 Magazine #2

Scrawlrbox Blackwing

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 158: You Gotta Have Torque

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:54:31 +0000

Let’s get to the point: what good are pencils that aren’t sharp? Tonight, we take another look at sharpeners, the ones we love, the ones we recommend, the ones you might want to avoid.

Also, check out our 2021 Erasable Podcast t-shirt campaign!

Show Notes & Links

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Somebody Feed Phil

For All Mankind

Hayes Carll

The Flight Attendant

I Expect You to Die

Spirits of San Francisco

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood

Amazing paper airplane site

Johnny's Parker “51” review

Mitsubishi Uni KH-20

Blackwing Sharpener

Sonic Rachetta

Classroom Friendly Sharpener

X-acto School Pro

Johnny’s review of the same

M&R keyhole sharpener

KUM single hole longpoint sharpener

On sanding them smooth

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 157: Correct Me if You're Wrong

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:45:07 +0000

Sometimes there are pencils that you almost love. Almost. Something holds you back, and you just can’t get these pencils to work out for you. Tonight, we examine the pencils that almost make it to our best-of lists but which we nonetheless loathe.

Show Notes & Links

A Swim In a Pond in the Rain

Nathaniel Rateliff

SNL

Mudlarking

Miss Scarlet and the Duke

The Sinner

The Flight Attendant

Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories

Phoebe Bridgers

Write Notepads Engineer’s Notebook

Blackwing X Tribe7

Pencil Revolution #14

Home Work Podcast X Erasable

Well-Appointed Desk Vintage Writing Paper Pad

Tim's list

Faber-Castell “Castell” 9000

Johnny's list

Andy's list

Faber-Castell Grip 2001

Camlin Supreme HD

Eberhard Faber Mongol

General’s Semi-hex

Rhodia pencil

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

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Episode 156: Freestyle Swearing (with special guest Luke Sinclair)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:26:20 +0000

Tonight’s guest is someone we’ve wanted to have on the podcast since the beginning. Working from home has made the impossible (because of time zones) possible! Luke Sinclair joins us all the way from Australia to talk about his wonderful art and a little about sharpening pencils with a knife.

Show Notes and Links

Creative classes with Luke Sinclair

Luke’s blog

Bridgerton

Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy

Caran d’Ache Luminance color pencils

Staedtler Mars Plastic stick eraser

Bob Dylan Blackwings

Mitsubishi drawing pencils

Higonokami No. 4 folding knife

Opinel Carbon steel

Our Guest

Luke Sinclair
LukeSinclairArtist.com
Pencilsm.net

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 155: My Sweaty Hands are Well-Documented

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:29:23 +0000

Happy New Year! It’s been a few weeks, and we’re dipping into 2021 tonight with a non-topical episode featuring updates, zines, and predictions for the New Year.

Show Notes and Links

404 Magazine on Etsy

Marie Howe, What the Living Do

Steve Earle’s J.T.

Ken Burns’ Civil War

Maggie Smith, Good Bones

Zen and the Art of Archery

Maggie Smith the poet on Twitter

From a Certain Point of View

Halt and Catch Fire)

Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine

Dogs of Berlin

Parker Jotter XL Brand Name Pencils

Another Evening at Home

Bullet Journal 2.0

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

PREVIEW: The Indelible Podcast Episode 4: Heisenberg’s Blue Cristal

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:55:06 +0000

We’re taking a short break from publishing, but in the meantime, check out a preview of our latest episode of The Indelible Podcast, a Patreon-only podcast where we talk about pens! This episode is all about the ubiquitous Bic Cristal: a history, some variants, and more trivia. Become a Patreon supporter at any level to access this and other episodes of Indelible.

Episode 154: Keep Your Finger Out of the Piranha Tank (with special guest Ali Serra)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 05:09:43 +0000

For our first episode of December, we talked with artist and vintage pencil collector Ali Serra about his work, and about how — and why — he finds cool, old pencils and accessories.

Show Notes & Links

Chronicle Books Notebook

Field Notes Snowy Evening

Christmas Vacation

Mayor of Macdougal Street

Ramsey Lewis Trio Sound of Christmas

Pencil of the Week/NAME Collab postcards

Pilgrim Soul Notebook

Bullet Journal Version 2.0

Pencil Revolution Zine #10-11

Pencil Revolution Sticker #1

Linton Rancho 444

Our Guest

Ali Serra
Ernest Theodore Vintage Pencils • Art • Woodworking

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 153: The Mask of Tidiness (a special LIVE Thanksgiving episode!)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:58:32 +0000

In this episode, Johnny, Tim and Andy recorded their episode live on a Zoom call with dozens of Erasable listeners. They discussed things for which they are thankful, and some listeners shared their gratitude as this difficult year winds down.

Show Notes & Links

In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown

IDLES

The Crown

Baronfig Letters to the Future

Pencil Revolution Etsy Shop

Ministry for Uncivilized Behavior

Erasable Discord invite

The Word Distribution

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 152: Big Into Inertia (with special guests Less Harper and Harry Marks)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 07:11:51 +0000

It’s time for our annual discussion of NaNoWriMo. This year, Johnny is joined by Harry Marks and Less Harper (while Andy and Tim are away) for a good long chat about this annual writing extravaganza.

Show Notes & Links

How To: Fitting an Energel Refill into a Baronfig Squire | Comfortable Shoes Studio

Comfortable Shoe Studio

Harry Marks on LinkTree

RSVP Podcast

Useful Journaling, Issue 1 | Less on Ko-fi

Work/Life Task System | Curious Rat

Buy Johnny’s zines!

National Novel Writing Month

Harrow the Ninth

The Ten Day Outline

Expert Card Technique

The Expert at the Card Table

Dracula (TV series)

Baronfig Guardian Pro

Our Guests

Less Harper
Comfortable Shoes Studio
RSVP Stationery Podcast
@OriginalLCHarper on Twitter and Instagram

Harry Marks
Home Work Podcast
The Shelf Life Sitcom
@HCMarks on Twitter and Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 151: Demon Baby Pencil Sharpener

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:32:02 +0000

It’s the time of year that a lot of us enjoy scary stories, spooky films, and morbid poetry. Tune in tonight as Andy, Johnny, and Tim help you to get on your fright.

Pencil Revolution is now a zine! Shop the first few issues on Etsy.

Show notes and links

Great British Baking Show

Keep Moving

“Wildflowers” home demo

The Fall)

Stolen Sharpie Revolution

IDLES

Escape to the Chateau

Last Tango in Halifax

Star Trek Lower Decks

The Invisible Library

Musgrave debate pencils

Musgrave Hat

Baronfig Liberty

Pencil Revolution, The Zine

Coraline

The Mist)

If It Bleeds

“The Tell-Tale Heart”

Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters/Aliens/etc

I Am The Pretty Thing that Lives in the House

Communion

Don’t look now (1973)

The Changeling (1980)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Downward Spiral

Undertow

Antichrist Superstar

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 150: A Lid for Every Pot (with special guest zinester Ed Kemp)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 02:09:29 +0000

Pencils and zines have both survived blogs, social media, even instant video apps. Tonight, we chat with Ed Kemp of The Word Distribution about his zine, Pencil of the Week.

This episode is sponsored by Notegeist, purveyor of fine pencils, notebooks and stationery. Check out their brand-new pencil collection log book, the Geistnotes Pencilog, and save 15% off these fine products in the Erasable Collection using the coupon code ERASABLE150 upon checkout.

Show Notes and Links

Notegeist Erasable collection: Save 15% by using ERASABLE150 on these items**

Geistnotes Pencilog: the Pencil Collection Log Book

The Word Distribution Shop

The Word Distribution

The Corner

Escape to the Chateau

Staedtler Pencil Holder

Orange Confidants

Musgrave Debate Pencils

Write Notebooks tear pads

Field Notes United States of Letterpress

Baron Fig Guardian Pro

Baron Fig Mosaic Desktop holder

Stolen Sharpie Revolution

Billy McCall, Zinester Etsy (Last Night at the Casino; Antiquated Future; etc.)

Episode 149: The Hold That Thought Book (with special guest Abraham from La Vie Graphite)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:38:12 +0000

Journaling is good for us. All of us. Tune in tonight as your three favorite journalers chat with journaling teacher and expert Abraham, writer and illustrator of the blog La Vie Graphite.

Show Notes & Links

La Vie Graphite airwaves songs in the night graphite archive

Portrait de saint Jean de la Croix

Man of Spain

Wherever You Go There You Are

Living in the Material World

Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown

Little Fires Everywhere

The Mandalorian

Woke

The Young and Prestigious T. S. Spivet

The Right to Write

The Body Keeps the Score

The Stranger

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Our Guest

Abraham, editor of La Vie Graphite

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 148: Defacing the Stars

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 03:53:51 +0000

It’s a short, just-the-Fresh-Points episode this week and our three intrepid hosts dive into the newest Volumes release from Blackwing.

Show Notes and Links

Best American Essays 2013

Justin Townes Earle

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Watchmen)

Not Best Seller | Twitch

Blackwing Volume XIX

Baron Fig Bloom Meditation Journal

Hemingway Library of America edition (Use offer code SUM2020)

Rhodia Goalbook

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 147: The Pen Dentist (with special guest Jesi Raine)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:12:19 +0000

We’re giving you, our faithful listeners, a special preview of something we’re trying out for our Patreon supporters — an episode of our inky offshoot show, The Indelible Podcast. After our tools of the trade and fresh points, vintage fountain pen restorer Jesi Raine of Vintage Pen Shop will be joining us to talk about the history of Esterbrook pens, and how she rehabs them.

Show Notes and Links

Jesi at The Well-Appointed Desk

Vintage Pen Shop

The Writing Diet

The Collection

Me Talk Pretty One Day

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

The Hardest Job in the World

If All I Was Was Black

Poe Theatre on the Air

Metaphor Dice

Our Guest

Jesi Raine
Vintage Pen Shop
@jesi_raine on Twitter and Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 146: Pencils My Grandmother Had (with special guest Dave T from Pencil Fodder)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:34:50 +0000

Tonight, we are time traveling: through three times zones and far into the past. Dave T from Pencil Fodder joins us for a discussion of vintage pencils and maybe even how modern pencil manufacturers can learn from what older makers got right.

This episode is sponsored by Notegeist, an online purveyor of fine stationery. Through August 5, use the coupon code ERASABLE146 to save 10% off your order. For your order of $30 or more, you’ll get a free Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild notecard.

Show notes and links

Notegeist Online Stationery Shop

Work Notes - Endless Recorder

Pencil Fodder

Write Notepads Lenore

Tombow Mono 100 ‘fashion’ blue cap model (HB)

Pentel Black Polymer 999 Alpha (HB)

Montblanc Meisterstück Le Petit Prince LeGrand Fountain Pen - Medium nib

Montblanc Royal Blue ink

Dubliners

Anton Chekhov - Five Plays

Broadchurch season 1 (rewatching)

Lenox Hill

1984

Ahmad Jamal Trio (street food, taste the nation)

Blackwing Era

Moleskine Two-Go

The Crown

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

The Poetry Home Repair Manual

Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu trilogy #2)

The English Game

USCO 486 No. 2

Our Guest

Dave T
Pencil Fodder

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 145: Seattle Trash Cans (with special guest Tina Koyama)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:47:34 +0000

Maybe you’ve seen artists walking around your city, sketchbooks in hand, drawing what they see — perhaps even drawing you! Our friend Tina Koyama is a veteran urban sketcher, and she’s here to give us the rundown on this growing movement in contemporary art.

Show Notes and Links

Fueled by Clouds & Coffee

Tina Koyama on Instagram

Urban Sketchers Manifesto

Gabi Campanario (founder of Urban Sketchers)

Suhita Shirodkar (an urban sketcher who can sketch anything under any circumstance)

Eduardo Bajzek (whose urban sketching workshop changed the way I use graphite)

Well-Appointed Desk

Tina’s sketch kit

Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle

Viarco ArtGraf water-soluble graphite

Blackwing “MMX” Matte

Mitsubishi Hi-Uni

Tombow Mono KM-KKS 6B

Staedtler Mars Lumograph 12B

White Gelly Roll

Uni Pin brush pen

M+R sharpener

Stillman & Birn sketchbook

Jurassic Park)

Koshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams

Billy Collins’ Notebooks

Blueline Notebook

French-ruled paper

Blackwing Eraser Hack-A-Thon

Our Guest

Tina Koyama
Fueled by Clouds and Coffee
@miatagrrl on Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

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Episode 144: Where I Feel Most Free (with special guest Aaron James Draplin)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:47:00 +0000

Maybe you’ve heard of the incredibly popular notebook brand Field Notes. Maybe you’ve heard us mention them a few times over the last six years. Tune in as we get to chat with Aaron Draplin, graphic designer extraordinaire, Field Notes inventor, and all-around awesome guy.

Warning: this episode has several R-rated words that we decided not to bleep out, due to the color and richness it lends to the conversation. You may not want to listen to this with kids.

Show Notes and Links

Draplin Design Company

Field Notes Brand

Field Notes Heavy Duty

Third Man Field Notes

Leah’s Note To Self

Baronfig Simple Observations

Blackwing Volume 3

Walt Whitman, Song of Himself

Padma Lakshmi’s “Taste the Nation” on Hulu

How to be an Anti-Racist

White Fragility

Jason Isbell Live at the Brooklyn Bowl

Talking to Strangers

Hello from the Magic Tavern

Outstanding in a Field

Pencil Sharpener Sumulator

Aaron on Pencil Revolution (2011): Part 1 Part 2

Our Guest

Aaron James Draplin
Draplin Design Company website
@draplin on Twitter and Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

(Download)

Episode 143: Black Lives Matter

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:24:50 +0000

We’re not bringing you an episode about pencils this week, but instead a short message, and some resources for how you can work toward ending systemic racism in your community.

Black lives matter. Period.

If you’re in the United States, please consider a sustained donation to The Bail Project and other organizations working to bring judicial reform to our government.

Being non-racist is not enough: we need to learn how to be anti-racist. Author Ibram X. Kendi has an Anti-racist reading list for us as we begin and progress through our journey.

And when you do pick up these books, be sure you do it from a Black-owned bookstore nearest to your community. LitHub has a great list.

After the media event around the protests against police brutality inevitably ends, white people need to find ways to sustain our support. Tatiana Mac is a software engineer, a writer, and an activist, and has a great Twitter thread with practical ways to avoid burnout and keep up momentum.

Last week, one of our Facebook group members crowd-sourced a list of Black-owned stationery companies or shops that we could support. Here’s what we came up with:

GREERChicago

Loyalty Bookstore in Silver Springs, MD

Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury, MA

Page Eleven Paper Goods

The Quiet Life Los Angeles

Semicolon Bookstore

Odin Leather Goods

The Desiderata Pen Company

Methodical Stationery UK

Paper Penguin Co

We’re sure there are lots more. If you have a Black-owned stationery company or shop, feel free to link them in the comments, and we’ll be sure to add to this list.

Episode 142: Happy Birthday, Blob Dylan

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 27 May 2020 22:39:26 +0000

It’s been a long time since we updated our Top 5, and tonight’s the night! Tune in to find out what’s the same, what’s off the list, and what’s on.

This episode is sponsored by Kamikokuen, an online stationery shop selling vintage Japanese pencils and fun pencil-themed stickers. Save 20% on your order of 2 items or more, plus a fun sticker, with the coupon code ERASABLE20.

Show Notes & Links

Kamikokuen

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

Jason Isbell Reunions

Sourdough

Broadchurch

Bubblegum

My Family and Other Animals

Robert Frost, Complete

Field Notes Deader Prints

Keith McCleary/RandomThinks

RandomThinks at Notegeist

WorkFromHomeDesks.com

Musgrave Tennessee Red

Viking School Pencil

Palomino Golden Bear

Musgrave Test Scoring 100

Camel HB

Vintage Velvet(pencils

Berol Mirado

FaberCastell/Eberhard Faber “American”

PaperMate Mirado Classic

Episode 141: An Operating System for Your Life (with guest Steven Lawson of Monk Manual)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 13 May 2020 18:08:36 +0000

Today’s episode is a short one, but don’t equate that with being light on subject material! We have a chat with Steven Lawson, the creator of a notebook organizational system called Monk Manual. He tells us about his holistic approach to helping people organize their lives and themselves — professionally, personally, and philosophically.

Show Notes & Links

Reunions by Jason Isbell

The Wander Society

American Experience: George W. Bush

Stopping the Noise in Your Head

Stopping the Noise in Your Head videos

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Rick Steves on Hulu

The Membership Podcast

World-Ending Fire

Field Notes Deader Prints

Baron Fig Adrift

Baron Fig Fanatics

Our Guest

Steven Lawson
Monk Manual website
@monkmanual on Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 140: Thumb Ring, Tank Top, Lucky Coin (with special guest Kiki Petrosino)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:28:30 +0000

Perhaps this year more than in years past, poetry can help to sustain us spiritually and intellectually during the COVID-19 pandemic. To help us wrap-up National Poetry Month, renowned poet and teacher Kiki Petrosino was kind enough to join us to talk poetry, writing, pencils, and how literature heals the soul.

Kiki’s new book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia comes out May 5! Order it from her publisher, Sarabande Books.

Show Notes & Links

Kiki Petrosino (official site)

Kiki Petrosino at the Academy of American Poets

Kiki Petrosino at the Poetry Foundation

Pre-order White Blood

Pencil of the Month: The Viking Skoleblyanten

Star Trek: Picard

Yacht Rock “channel” on Pandora

John Prine: John Prine, The Missing Years, and The Tree of Forgiveness

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

American Songwriter

The Show and Tell Show

Huge box of Arrowhead erasers

“Thigh Gap” by Kiki Petrosino

Our Guest

Kiki Petrosino
Website
New book

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 139: It's All Well and Good Until You get Arrested for Mail Fraud (with Courtney Cochran)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:34:48 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic is still gripping the globe, and most of us are quarantined to some degree in our homes. To be human is to be connected with other humans, no matter how introverted we are. And letters are the natural way to reach out to other people for the Stationery Inclined. Join the Erasable hosts for a chat with Courtney Cochran, founder of the Snail Mail Social Club — all about letter-writing!

This episode is sponsored by Notegeist, an independent, one-stop stationery shop online. Use code ERASABLEFUN on your order of $30 or more to get a special goodie bag and 15% off Blackwing products. Limited to the first 50 orders or April 30, whichever is reached first.

Show Notes and Links

Notegeist

Snail Mail Social Club

Snail Mail Social Club Patreon

Courtney’s past Erasable Episode

Buy stamps online

Pencil of the Month

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

How to Change Your Mind

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Counterpart

Parker 98r safety razor

La Berlue pencil case

Review of the same

Bulsa Bags

Johnny’s favorite Airmail envelopes

Our Guest

Courtney Cochran
Snail Mail Social Club
Instagram
Facebook
Patreon

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 138: A Podcast of One's Own

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 07:00:00 +0000

While March is Women’s History Month, we’re kicking off April with a question based on Virginia Woolf’s 1929 A Room of One’s Own — if you have a room of your own (man, woman, or nonbinary), what does it look like? What kind of stationery is in it to assure maximum productivity? How is this room serving you during remote work? And if you don’t have a room of your own at the moment, what does it look like in your dreams?

Show Notes and Links

PDF of A Room of One’s Own

Ladies of Erasable playlist on Spotify

Iron Curtain Press Task Pad

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit

The Queen by Josh Levin

Shinola stationery

Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins recipe

Pier 1 Papasan chair

Baronfig Gather Review Journal

Episode 137: YOLO Pencils (a special live COVID-19 episode)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:02:47 +0000

Social distancing doesn’t mean we need to be socially isolated. On March 23, 2020, while the world is staying indoors and away from others to stem the surging tide of COVID-19, we recorded a special episode live, as Zoom webinar. We talk about how we’re occupying ourselves, our partners and our children with stationery, in order to stay happy and healthy during a supremely stressful time.

Because of the unusual nature of this episode, we do not have show notes for this episode.

Episode 136: Scrooge McDuckin' Some Pencils

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:54:23 +0000

We are back from our Baltimore adventure, with stories to tell, tattoos to show off, and to celebrate our six years of podcasting. Tune in as we reminisce about our weekend together and rap about the new spring releases from Write Notepads, Field Notes, and Blackwing.

Show Notes and Links

Baltimore Washington International Pen Show

Pencil of the Month: Mitsubishi 9852EW HB

Oracle Night

Needing to Know For Sure

Hunters

The Future of Another Timeline

Erin Rae

Townes Van Zandt (Be Here To Love Me)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

H. R. Spanks Tattoo

Write Notepads Amethyst

Field Notes Vignette

Blackwing Volume 840

Legendary Lead Co.

Episode 135: Live from the Baltimore Pen Show

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:34:56 +0000

(On February 28, 2020, Johnny, Tim and Andy met up in person — for the first time ever — in Baltimore to hang out, get tattoos, and record an episode in front of a live studio audience at the Baltimore Pen Show. This is that recording.)

Since we were recording in front of an audience at a pen show, we thought it only fitting to make the case for wood case — pencils, that is. Joined by pen show superstars Ana Reinert and Brad Dowdy, and fellow graphiteer Dade Scolardi from The Weekly Pencil and the RSVP Stationery Podcast, we laid out what we hope is a compelling case for those who are into fancy fountain pens to pick up and consider a humble wooden pencil.

Episode 134: Henry Pencils (with special guests Nicole and Tim Delger)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 04:15:53 +0000

We have been talking about the exciting new brand and marketing efforts of Musgrave for a few months now. Tonight, we are lucky to have creative directors Nicole and Tim Delger on the show with us, to chat about rebranding an American pencil icon.

Show Notes and Links

Nicole Delger

Tim Delger

Musgrave Pencil Company

Erasable Episode 106

Baltimore Washington International Pen Show

The Year of Magical Thinking

The Body Keeps the Score

Star Trek: Picard

And It’s Still Alright

Nathan Coulter

The Miniaturist

Decomposition Books

Write Notepads & Co Open House

Hipster Logo Design Guide

Our Guests

Nicole Delger
nicoledelger.com
@nicoledelger on Instagram

Tim Delger
timdelger.com
@tdelger on Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 133: The Ponytail Stage (with special guest Caroline Weaver)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:01:57 +0000

We are lucky enough to be joined again by Lady Graphite herself, Caroline Weaver. Her new book Pencils You Should Know is out this week! Tune in to hear all about some of the pencils whose stories are featured.

Show Notes & Links
CW Pencil Enterprise
Pencils You Should Know | Chronicle Books
February Pencil of the Month: Mitsu-bishi 9852EW
Writing is Designing
Miss Americana
Genius
OK Ikumi
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
When in Doubt, Make Belief
Legend
A Beginning at the End
The Flop House podcast
Shrill Season 2
The Blackwing rebranding
Baron Fig Work/Play 3
Pencil Revolution’s Musgrave Tennessee Red Review
Blackwing single hole sharpener

Episode 132: Cedar-Sniffing Johnny (with special guest Caitlin Elgin)

erasablepodcast@gmail.com (Andy Welfle) — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:47:38 +0000

It’s nearly a month into the new year. How is your organization system working out? Tonight, we are joined by our friend Caitlin Elgin, to talk about getting our crap together for 2020.

Plumbago Magazine, Issue 7 is now available for pre-order! Order your copy of this tiny issue now in the Erasable shop.

Show Notes and Links