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.

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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

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!

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Read a transcript of this episode at Erasable Scribe

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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

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!

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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

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!

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Erasable Patreon

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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

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.

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!

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Schon DSGN

Embassy pen

Auxiliary Mammals

Erasable at the Baltimore Pen Show after party at Write notepads

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

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?”.

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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

Mission Impossible Final Reckoning

Snipe Hunter by Tyler Childers

Blackwing Volume 292

Kodak Etkar

Nahvalur Triad

Blackwing x Fender 

San Francisco Pen Show

Monoc Evo by Schon Design

Your Hosts

Johnny  GamberPencil Revolution

Andy Welfleandy.wtf

Tim Wasem