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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.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 154: Keep Your Finger Out of the Piranha Tank (with special guest Ali Serra) Dec 10, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

Ali Serra on Etsy

Blackwing Volume 6

Chronicle Books Notebook

Field Notes Snowy Evening

Christmas Vacation

Mayor of Macdougal Street

Ramsey Lewis Trio Sound of Christmas

Paterson (again))

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!) Nov 24, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

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

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) Nov 01, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

Comfortable Shoe Studio

Harry Marks on LinkTree

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

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 Oct 14, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

Great British Baking Show

“Wildflowers” home demo

Stolen Sharpie Revolution

Escape to the Chateau

Last Tango in Halifax

Star Trek Lower Decks

The Invisible Library

Musgrave debate pencils

Baronfig Liberty

Pencil Revolution, The Zine

“The Tell-Tale Heart”

“The Raven”

House of Leaves

Her Fearful Symmetry

Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters/Aliens/etc

Sunset Boulevard

I Am The Pretty Thing that Lives in the House

Don’t look now (1973)

The Changeling (1980)

Black Christmas

Doctor Who, “Blink”

Stranger Things

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Downward Spiral

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) Oct 01, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

The Word Distribution

The Word Distribution Shop

Escape to the Chateau

Garden of the Gods

Chronicles Vol. I

Ready Player One

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) Sep 17, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

Portrait de saint Jean de la Croix

Wherever You Go There You Are

Living in the Material World

Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown

Little Fires Everywhere

The Mandalorian

The Young and Prestigious T. S. Spivet

The Right to Write

The Body Keeps the Score

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 Aug 29, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

Justin Townes Earle

Best American Essays 2013

Me Talk Pretty One Day

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) Aug 14, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

Vintage Pen Shop

Jesi at The Well-Appointed Desk

The Writing Diet

Me Talk Pretty One Day

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

The Hardest Job in the World

If All I Was Was Black

Theft By Finding

The new Parker 51!

Poe Theatre on the Air

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) Jul 30, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

Work Notes - Endless Recorder

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

Anton Chekhov - Five Plays

Broadchurch season 1 (rewatching)

Ahmad Jamal Trio (street food, taste the nation)

Moleskine Two-Go

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

The Poetry Home Repair Manual

Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu trilogy #2)

The English Game

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) Jul 17, 2020

Show notes

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

Erasable Patreon

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

Stillman & Birn sketchbook

Koshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams

The English Game

The Red Notebook

Freud (TV series))

New Waves: a novel

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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