The Erasable Podcast

By Tim, Johnny and Andy

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 ... more

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July 27, 2023 Episode 199: Pencils Under the Table (with special guest Aaron Bartholmey)
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
...more
41min
July 14, 2023 Episode 198: Shout Out to Linda
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
Erasable Patreon
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
Snowy Evening
Fifty
Trailhead
Harvest
Ignition
Signs of Spring
Great Lakes
Hatch
Kraft Plus
Streetscapes
Your Hosts
Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution
Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle
Tim Wasem
@TimWasem
...more
1h 38min
June 28, 2023 Episode 197: A Shocking Lack of Knowledge
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
Erasable Patreon
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
...more
1h 20min
June 02, 2023 Episode 196: Full of Expletives
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
George Michael
Bush
Steven Universe
Ted Lasso
Barry
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
...more
1h 2min
May 18, 2023 Episode 195: Flaubert with a Chicago Accent (with special guest Jay Newton)
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
Erasable Patreon
New Zelda Game
Field Notes Cityscapes
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
...more
1h 29min
April 20, 2023 Episode 194: It's Almost a Blurple
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
Erasable Patreon
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
...more
1h 2min
March 13, 2023 Episode 193: Illicit Blackwing Ring
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
Forest Choice
Blackwing 602
Musgrave Pencil King
Tim
Blackwing Natural
Blackwing MMX
Musgrave Tennessee Round
Mitsubishi 9852EW
Palomino HB
Johnny
Musgrave Tennessee Red
General Pencil Co. Cedar Pointe
California Republic Palomino (capped version)
Eberhard Faber / FaberCastell American / American Naturals
Whatever pencil I’m using
Show Notes and Links
Erasable Patreon
Shift Happens
Palomino Golden Bear
Hi-Class Golden Sword 2B
Forest Choice
Blackwing 602
Musgrave Pencil King
Blackwing Natural
Blackwing MMX
Musgrave Tennessee Round
Mitsubishi 9852EW/9852
Palomino HB
Musgrave Tennessee Red
General Pencil Co. Cedar Pointe
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
...more
1h 11min
February 02, 2023 Episode 192: The Coptic Kid
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
Erasable Patreon
The Creative Act
Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions
McCartney 3,2,1
All Creatures Great and Small
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
...more
53min
January 10, 2023 Episode 191: The Musgrave Train
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 Orville: New Horizons)
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
...more
44min
December 02, 2022 Episode 190: Where's Wasem?
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
Erasable Patreon
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
...more
42min

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