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    The Erasable Podcast

    From literature to carpentry, accounting to space travel, the wooden pencil and its ancestors have undeniably been at the center of creation and innovation for centuries. Join Johnny, Tim and Andy on the Erasable Podcast as they discuss and pay homage to these seemingly simple tools of human expression. Hosted by Johnny Gamber, Tim Wasem and Andy Welfle.

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    Episode 243: A Sheen of Fakery (with special guest Gabe Bullard, author of "Against Convenience") Oct 08, 2026
    Show notes

    Journalist Gabe Bullard joins us to talk about his new book, Against Convenience: Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease. We dig into what we trade away for ease: the Starbucks app, robotaxis, New Release Tuesdays, memories apps, and AI's "sheen of fakery" — plus Wendell Berry's rules for adopting a new tool and Gabe's chat with our friend Caroline Weaver. We’re missing Tim today because his hotel wi-fi is not working.

    For this episode, we recorded video, available to Patreon subscribers! If you’re a patron, head over 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

    Against Convenience: Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease by Gabe Bullard

    Gabe Bullard

    1A

    The Impossible Project

    Wendell Berry

    The Membership — Tim's Wendell Berry podcast

    “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” by Wendell Berry

    “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine” by Wendell Berry

    Dieter Rams' ten principles for good design

    Half-Told Tales by Arab Strap

    Don Hertzfeldt interview in Slate

    The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone

    Can Gen Z's Nostalgia Save Chain Restaurants? (New York Times)

    Yikes! pencils

    The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

    AI Fruit Love Island

    Meta's Muse AI agent at Connect 2026

    Google's "Dear Sydney" Gemini ad

    The Locavore Variety Store

    CW Pencil Enterprise

    Bookshop.org

    Underwood No. 6 typewriter

    Brother Charger 11 typewriter

    Olympia typewriters

    Hermes Baby typewriter

    Strikethru

    Lamy 2000 fountain pen

    Parker 51 fountain pen

    Fisher Space Pen

    Tombow AirPress ballpoint pen

    Eberhard Faber Mongol 482

    Mongol Pencil — the new relaunch

    Sanford American Naturals

    Musgrave Pencil Company

    Blackwing

    Steinbeck's favorite pencils

    Blaisdell Calculator 600

    Field Notes Original Kraft

    Louise Carmen leather notebook cover

    The reporter's notebook by Gabe Bullard (Nieman Reports)

    Bob Slate Stationer

    Stálogy Editor's Series 365Days Notebook

    Repair Café

    Rhodia No. 38 pad

    Rhodia No. 8 pad

    Alton Brown's Rhodia pad on Good Eats

    Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter

    Muji notebooks

    Ira Glass, This Is How I Work (Lifehacker)

    Delfonics Rollbahn notebooks

    David Sedaris's fake German notebooks from Japan (Literary Hub)

    Kurt Vonnegut's envelope story

    Erasable Patreon

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    Gabe Bullard
    Website

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    Johnny Gamber
    Pencil Revolution
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    Woodclinched
    @awelfle

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    Episode 242: Ren Faire LARPing (Pencil Primer, Part 3) Sep 20, 2026
    Show notes

    The Pencil Primer returns with part three: the other end of the pencil. We trace the eraser from stale bread crumbs to Goodyear's vulcanized rubber to Hymen Lipman's well-timed patent sale, then get into ferrules — wartime plastic ones, the Blackwing's famous clip, and why American pencils wear erasers while Japanese and German ones mostly don't. But first: Andy falls down a Carter Family rabbit hole, Johnny finds a forest green ink and an all-black Musgrave Ceres, and Tim awaits Blackwing's new Telecaster pencil.

    Show Notes & Links

    Show notes

    Erasable episode 237: Pencil Primer, Part 1

    Erasable episode 240: Pencil Primer, Part 2

    Lost Weekend by Phoebe Bridgers

    Trio by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris

    Trio II

    The Johnny Cash Show

    The Carter Family

    Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns

    Birthplace of Country Music Museum

    Field Notes Explore America: Northern California

    Penco Bullet Ballpoint Pen Light

    The Gentlemen (series)

    The Gentlemen (film)

    Grantchester

    The Vicar of Dibley

    The Art of the Fold by Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol

    Asvine C80

    Jacques Herbin Vert Forêt ink

    General's Cedar Pointe

    Paper Mate EarthWrite

    John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie

    Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

    Tires

    Pilot Metropolitan

    Pilot Plumix

    Diamine Aurora Borealis ink

    Nahvalur Nautilus

    Against Convenience by Gabe Bullard

    Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

    Musgrave Ceres 909 Midnight

    Musgrave America250 Ceres 909 Red, White, & Blue Set

    Justin Ostrander on YouTube

    Blackwing Volume 33 1/3

    Tombow 2558

    Mitsubishi 9852

    Blackwing x Fender Butterscotch Blonde Telecaster pencils

    Blackwing x Fender Butterscotch Blonde Telecaster notebook

    Blackwing x Fender Stratocaster pencils

    Blackwing Volume 725

    Edward Nairne

    Charles Goodyear

    Vulcanization

    Kneaded eraser

    Will It Blend? iPhone

    Hymen Lipman

    The brief and fascinating history of WWII-era pencil ferrules

    Bic Evolution

    Uni-ball Air

    Tombow Mono eraser

    Mitsubishi 9852EW

    Staedtler Noris

    Telephone pencils in action — pencils with a tip for dialing rotary phones

    Supreme Court gift shop gavel pencils

    Hemingway Home & Museum store

    Sprout plantable pencils

    Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil

    The Blackwing pencil: a history

    Eberhard Faber Mongol

    Mirado

    Golden Bear

    Richard Best Futura

    Venus Velvet

    Craft Design Technology pencils

    Camel pencils and the integrated eraser

    Itoya Helvetica pencil

    Erasable Patreon

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    Johnny Gamber
    Pencil Revolution
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    Andy Welfle
    Woodclinched
    @awelfle

    Tim Wasem
    @TimWasem


    Episode 241: Disney Meth Aug 27, 2026
    Show notes

    No Pencil Primer this time (part three is coming, promise) — instead, a Fresh Points extravaganza to say bye-bye to summer. Blackwing goes big with a Mickey and Friends collection and the gorgeous Frida Kahlo Volume 143, Andy's wristwatch rabbit hole deepens into designing the perfect podcaster's watch, Johnny hand-binds his kids' planners and stocks up on pastel Musgrave Ceres, and Tim shows off Sharpie Harpy art and a compendium of delightfully weird writing prompts. Plus: Hobonichi szn is upon us, the SF Pen Show, Ian Schon's new dip nib, and a tall stack of books. Patreon subscribers at any level can watch the video version.

    Show Notes

    St. Denis Medical — season 1 on Netflix, season 2 on Peacock

    Against Convenience by Gabe Bullard — out September 15 from Hanover Square Press; preorder it! (More at gabebullard.com)

    Tom's Studio refillable fineliner pen

    Paper Mate InkJoy multi-pen — surprisingly good company swag

    The Land and Its People by David Sedaris — recorded live at his readings

    Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt — the octopus book, now a Netflix movie

    three six five: prompts, acts, divinations by Lucy Ives (Siglio Press) — Tim's beautiful, backordered book of writing exercises (three ribbons!)

    Field Notes: Is a River Alive? — Tim's favorite Field Notes ever, with art by Stanley Donwood for Robert Macfarlane's book

    Uni-ball Air Micro — Tim's pocket pen

    Musgrave Ceres — America 250 blue for Johnny, pastels by the gross for back to school

    Levenger True Writer in Sea Glass with Levenger Empyrean bottled ink ("navy blue and teal had a very beautiful baby")

    Hamilton Khaki Field Murph — the Interstellar watch, plus Andy's musings on military field watch dials and podcaster's-watch design

    Hobonichi Techo season — Weeks, Cousin, and the V&A collabs; see Yoseka Stationery's big walkthrough video

    San Francisco Pen Show — this weekend, bring your elbows

    Schon DSGN — Ian Schon's new $68 titanium dip nib, debuting at the show

    Blackwing x Disney Mickey and Friends collection — soft graphite, $40 a dozen

    Blackwing Volume 143 — the Frida Kahlo edition: saturated florals, pink metallic ferrule, teal eraser, and the best QC in years

    Blackwing One-Step sharpener — a big responsibility, bud

    Sharpie Harpy — Em Varian's Sharpie art on Etsy (you can even license a tattoo)

    Leuchtturm1917 — Tim's new default notebook gift for normal people

    Pencil Revolution Press — Johnny's handmade planners and '90s diskette journals

    Musgrave Test Scoring 100 — now with that sweet new ferrule

    Musgrave Tennessee Red pencils and the Songbird edition — remembering Dolly Parton

    Support the show and get video episodes: patreon.com/erasable

    Your Hosts

    Johnny GamberPencil Revolution
    @pencilution

    Andy WelfleWoodclinched
    @awelfle

    Tim Wasem@TimWasem


    Episode 240: Synchronized Head Molts (Pencil Primer, Part 2) Aug 06, 2026
    Show notes

    The Pencil Primer returns with part two: the case of yonder pencil. We trace the wood itself — from Conté's badass eyepatch to eastern red cedar, California incense cedar, and the creeping basswood era — plus why pencils are yellow (blame a Siberian graphite strike and some questionable 19th-century marketing) and why triangular pencils are weird. But first, the summer releases: Blackwing's birding-themed Volume 458 and Field Notes' melty, paleta-inspired Paletas edition get the full review. Next time: ferrules and erasers. Patreon subscribers at any level can watch the video version.

    For this episode, we recorded video, available to Patreon subscribers! If you’re a patron, head over 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 & Links

    Blackwing Volume 458 — a tribute to birding: Clark's Grebe, Mallard, Green Jay, and Black Rail gradients (Behind the Design)

    How Blackwing Pencils Are Made — the making-of video we kept mentioning (also on YouTube)

    Field Notes Paletas — nine popsicle notebooks inspired by Paletería Los Magos in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood

    Field Notes: The Founding Documents

    Outshine popsicles — the official popsicle-flavor icebreaker

    Nahvalur Original Plus — new sparkly colors (plus mystery jewel-tone demonstrators spotted at the NYC stationery festival)

    Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-gaki ink — Andy's persimmon-orange favorite

    Stationery Day recaps from Brad Dowdy and friends

    Musgrave Tennessee Red — eastern red cedar, clear lacquer, glorious smell

    Musgrave Single Barrel 106 — named for Erasable episode 106 with Henry Hulan of Musgrave

    Pencils Past and Present — the YouTube channel reviewing the Single Barrel 106 (and lots of vintage pencils)

    ForestChoice — the FSC-certified incense cedar standard-bearer

    General's Cedar Pointe — naked cedar, as God intended

    Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth — where the yellow pencil (and its complicated marketing history) began

    Caran d'Ache Swiss Wood 348 — reportedly discontinued; pour one out (Pen Addict review; Well-Appointed Desk review)

    Dixon Tri-Conderoga — Andy's triangular gateway pencil

    Ticonderoga Laddie — the bigger, soft-triangle one

    Faber-Castell Grip 2001 — triangular, six design awards, formerly bubbly grip dots


    Episode 239: Mavis Beacon for President Jul 14, 2026
    Show notes

    The whole gang is back together to catch up. Andy recaps his Field Notes–filled wedding, starts a new job, and falls down a serious wristwatch rabbit hole — from Bluetooth-modded Casio F-91Ws to a Draplin x Timex Scout. Johnny's loving a $30 Asvine piston-filler, a possibly haunted Cedar Pointe, and a Rhodia Goalbook in Peacock, while Tim is deep in World Cup fever and cheap-but-good Pen+Gear black pencils. Plus: Blackwing's 250 drop, Nahvalur's Fireworks Nautilus, and a locked-in promise that next episode is a Pencil Primer all about wood.

    For this episode, we recorded video, available to Patreon subscribers! If you’re a patron, head over 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 & Links

    Murchie's Tea (Victoria, BC) — Scottish breakfast blend

    ForestChoice #2 pencil — still $5 a pack at Pencils.com

    Field Notes Explore America: Northern California — Golden Gate National Recreation Area edition (with Big Sur and Muir Woods)

    Range Leather notebook cover

    Bound to Be Beautiful by Bari Zaki — from Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago

    No Man's Sky

    Asvine P90 piston-fill fountain pen (~$30)

    Organics Studio Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass ink

    General's Cedar Pointe #1

    Baron Fig x Caroline Weaver Archer pencil

    Rhodia Goalbook in Peacock

    James Corden's live after-match World Cup show on Tubi

    The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno

    Replica J. Thoreau & Son pencil from The Shop at Walden Pond

    Moleskine Cahier XL notebook — $9.99 at Walmart

    Casio F-91W and the Ollee Watch Bluetooth mod (~$60)

    Casio Vintage series — calculator, world-time, and the Alien wrist-communicator lookalike

    Timex Weekender, Timex Expedition, and a Draplin Design Co. x Timex Scout

    Fitbit Air ($99) — strap-only tracker people pair with analog watches

    Paper & Pencil (Chicago) custom Stationery Day Field Notes — including a stamp-collecting edition

    Delfonics Rollbahn Micro — the impossibly tiny new size, found at Maido

    The Blackwing 250 Collection — red, white, and blue pencils, plus the 250-box with a gold one (only 50 sets)

    Musgrave America250 Cedar Box Set — 2 dozen red, white, and blue Ceres pencils

    Field Notes: The Founding Documents

    Nahvalur Nautilus Fireworks limited edition

    Pen+Gear round black #2 pencils — back-to-school find at Walmart

    Panini World Cup sticker album — $2 packs, 450+ stickers


    Episode 238: No Playing Lawyer Ball Jun 10, 2026
    Show notes

    Andy's out this week for the best possible reason — he got married! (Congratulations, Andy and Erica! 🎉) So Johnny and Tim keep it short and sweet with a catch-up and some fresh points: Tim falls down a Blaze Foley rabbit hole and digs into a new book on heartland rock, Johnny can't stop playing No Man's Sky, and both Henries pick up guitars. Plus: Field Notes' new Explore America memo books, Musgrave's America 250 collection, a pencil-powered fire-starting experiment, and a look at this year's (sadly slim) crop of Pride stationery. We'll be back next time, Andy in tow, with Pencil Primer, Part 2.

    For this episode, we recorded video, available to Patreon subscribers! If you’re a patron, head over 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 & Links

    Erasable Patreon

    Erasable Podcast Discord invite

    Blaze Foley — Live at the Austin Outhouse

    Blaze (2018), Ethan Hawke's film about Blaze Foley

    Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America by Erin Osmon

    Andor

    King of the Hill

    No Man's Sky

    A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson

    A Perfect Circle — "Starless" (new single)

    Arab Strap — "You You You" (new single + video)

    Field Notes Explore America memo books

    Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery

    Pencil graphite lighter video

    Musgrave America 250 collection

    Fisher Space Pen — America 250 AG7 Astronaut Pen

    Nahvalur Horizon Pride 2026 fountain pen

    The Trevor Project

    War by Sebastian Junger

    Your Hosts

    Johnny GamberPencil Revolution
    @pencilution

    Andy WelfleWoodclinched
    @awelfle

    Tim Wasem@TimWasem


    Episode 237: Pencil Primer, Part 1 May 11, 2026
    Show notes

    We kick off the Pencil Primer — a new series for anyone who wants to start at the beginning of pencildom. This installment traces graphite from the legendary Borrowdale lightning strike of 1564 to Nicolas-Jacques Conté's clay-and-graphite breakthrough during the Napoleonic Wars, plus the Thoreau family's role in standardizing the American pencil grade scale and a tour through HB-to-9B. Plus, Tim's into a Bill Frisell biography, Johnny's writing with a sparkly Narwhal "raspberry cheesecake" pen that looks like, uh, something else, and Andy debuts booklet.lol — a vibe-coded book tracker. Patreon subscribers can watch the video version.

    For this episode, we recorded video, available to Patreon subscribers! If you’re a patron, head over 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 & Links

    Erasable

    Read a transcript of this episode at Erasable Scribe

    Erasable Patreon

    Erasable Facebook group

    Erasable Discord invite

    Episode references

    Episode 57: “The F Bomb”

    Podcasts / media

    Drug Story

    r/pencils

    Letterkenny

    Books

    Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer

    Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly

    Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

    A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

    Pencil / stationery / book arts

    Cumberland Pencil Museum

    Nicolas-Jacques Conté (Britannica)

    Henry David Thoreau (Britannica)

    Guild of Book Workers

    General’s Layout Pencil

    STAEDTLER WOPEX

    Derwent

    Photography / camera stuff

    Micro Four Nerds

    PetaPixel

    Apps / sites / companies

    booklet.lol

    People / artists / companies

    Willie Nelson

    Charlie Crockett

    Bill Frisell

    JHS Pedals

    Your Hosts

    Johnny Gamber
    Pencil Revolution
    @pencilution

    Andy Welfle
    Woodclinched
    @awelfle

    Tim Wasem
    @TimWasem


    Episode 236: An Impressionistic Budget Apr 19, 2026
    Show notes

    A big one this time around: we celebrate 12 years of Erasable, Andy launches a transcript site and an AI quiz generator, Johnny's been making books and hiking in 15-degree weather, and Tim christens his new Nahvalur Nautilus with a boiling water incident. Plus fresh releases from Field Notes, Blackwing, Baronfig, and Musgrave.

    For this episode, we recorded video, available to Patreon subscribers! If you’re a patron, head over 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 & links

    Erasable Patreon

    Erasable Podcast Discord invite

    The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons

    Pilão coffee (Tim's Brazilian coffee recommendation from Skip Simmons)

    Erasable Scribe

    Quizard.cool

    12 years of Erasable, by the numbers (according to Claude)

    Ed Kemp on zines (Erasable episode) (if you have a specific episode link handy)

    Plumbago magazine

    Field Notes "Lucky"

    Blackwing Volume 343

    Blackwing Quarterly Zine, Issue 1

    Baronfig Winnie the Pooh Squire Hex

    Baronfig Legend hardcover notebook

    Musgrave America 250 Celebration Red, White, and Blue set

    Nahvalur Nautilus Ti "Toffee"

    Mike Masuyama nib grinding

    Your Hosts

    Johnny Gamber
    Pencil Revolution
    @pencilution

    Andy Welfle
    Woodclinched
    @awelfle

    Tim Wasem
    @TimWasem


    Episode 235: Little Podcast Mustache Mar 14, 2026
    Show notes

    The Erasable Podcast turns 12! As of March 12, we’ve officially been doing this podcast for 12 years. 279 hours of audio — that’s more than 11.5 straight days of Erasable! Tim is out today, but Johnny grills Andy about his trip to Hong Kong and Japan, including some of the cool pencils he found at a stationery shop in Kyoto that’s been in business since the 1600s. Have a listen!

    For this episode, we recorded video, available to Patreon subscribers! If you’re a patron, head over 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 & Links

    Erasable Patreon

    Erasable Podcast Discord invite

    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 Feb 25, 2026
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