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.

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

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

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.

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

Erasable Patreon

Erasable Podcast Discord invite

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

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!

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

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

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!)

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

The Birthday Massacre’s Sleep Tonight

Where the Crawdads Sing

Damned

Puscifer

Nahvalur Nautilus Ti 

Herbin Sapphire 

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

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.

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

Erasable Podcast Discord invite

Bon Iver Field Notes

“The Chicago Look” 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

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.

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

The Erasable Podcast Discord

Andy’s new blog, Asterisms

The War on Cars

The Bookmakers

Kiridashi Knife

Kamikokuen

Pencil Grocery

The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan

Your Hosts

Johnny  Gamber
Pencil Revolution

Andy Welfle
andy.wtf

Tim Wasem

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.

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!

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

Erasable Podcast Discord invite

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

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!

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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

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.

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!

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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

@[email protected]

@[email protected]

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