Since our recording schedule and the Blackwing and Field Notes quarterly release schedule didn’t line up, we’re keeping it short today to talk about fresh points: zines, old city street guides, and an exciting announcement about the 8th issue of Plumbago Magazine.

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Erasable Patreon

Plumbago 8

T-Shirts

Warlight

The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer

Cat Party zines  

Taco Chronicles

Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime

Band of Joy

Raya and the Last Dragon

Pencil Revolution #15

404 Magazine #2

Scrawlrbox Blackwing

Your Hosts

Johnny  Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Let’s get to the point: what good are pencils that aren’t sharp? Tonight, we take another look at sharpeners, the ones we love, the ones we recommend, the ones you might want to avoid.

Also, check out our 2021 Erasable Podcast t-shirt campaign!

Show Notes & Links

Erasable Patreon

Woodclinched on Etsy

Pencil Revolution on Etsy

Somebody Feed Phil

For All Mankind

Hayes Carll

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

The Flight Attendant

I Expect You to Die

Spirits of San Francisco

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood

Amazing paper airplane site

Johnny's Parker “51” review 

Mitsubishi Uni KH-20

Blackwing Sharpener

Sonic Rachetta

Classroom Friendly Sharpener

X-acto School Pro

Johnny’s review of the same

M&R keyhole sharpener

KUM single hole longpoint sharpener

On sanding them smooth

Your Hosts

Johnny  Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Sometimes there are pencils that you almost love. Almost. Something holds you back, and you just can’t get these pencils to work out for you. Tonight, we examine the pencils that almost make it to our best-of lists but which we nonetheless loathe.

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Erasable Patreon

A Swim In a Pond in the Rain

Nathaniel Rateliff

SNL

Mudlarking

Miss Scarlet and the Duke

The Sinner

The Flight Attendant

Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories

Phoebe Bridgers

Write Notepads Engineer’s Notebook

Blackwing X Tribe7

Pencil Revolution #14

Home Work Podcast X Erasable

Well-Appointed Desk Vintage Writing Paper Pad

Tim's list

Musgrave Bugle

Viking Rollo XL

BLACKWING 211

Musgrave Harvest

Faber-Castell “Castell” 9000

Johnny's list

Staedtler Norica

Golden Bear

Blackwing Pearl

Tombow 2558

Field Notes

Andy's list

Faber-Castell Grip 2001

Camlin Supreme HD

Eberhard Faber Mongol

General’s Semi-hex

Rhodia pencil

Your Hosts

Johnny  Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

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Tonight’s guest is someone we’ve wanted to have on the podcast since the beginning. Working from home has made the impossible (because of time zones) possible! Luke Sinclair joins us all the way from Australia to talk about his wonderful art and a little about sharpening pencils with a knife.

Show Notes and Links

Erasable Patreon

Luke’s blog

Creative classes with Luke Sinclair

Bridgerton

All Creatures Great and Small

White Teeth

Star Trek Discovery

The Collected Angers

Ted Lasso

Lord of the Rings

Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy

Caran d’Ache Luminance color pencils

Staedtler Mars Plastic stick eraser

Bob Dylan Blackwings

Mitsubishi drawing pencils

Higonokami No. 4 folding knife

Opinel Carbon steel

Our Guest

Luke Sinclair
LukeSinclairArtist.com
Pencilsm.net

Your Hosts

Johnny  Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Happy New Year! It’s been a few weeks, and we’re dipping into 2021 tonight with a non-topical episode featuring updates, zines, and predictions for the New Year.

Show Notes and Links

Erasable Patreon

404 Magazine on Etsy

Pencil Revolution on Etsy

Steve Earle’s J.T.

Ken Burns’ Civil War

Marie Howe, What the Living Do

Maggie Smith, Good Bones

Zen and the Art of Archery

Maggie Smith the poet on Twitter

From a Certain Point of View

Halt and Catch Fire)

Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine

Dogs of Berlin

Parker Jotter XL Brand Name Pencils

Another Evening at Home

Bullet Journal 2.0

Your Hosts

Johnny  Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

We’re taking a short break from publishing, but in the meantime, check out a preview of our latest episode of The Indelible Podcast, a Patreon-only podcast where we talk about pens! This episode is all about the ubiquitous Bic Cristal: a history, some variants, and more trivia. Become a Patreon supporter at any level to access this and other episodes of Indelible.

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

Mandalorian

Ted Lasso

Blackwing Volume 6

Chronicle Books Notebook

Field Notes Snowy Evening

Christmas Vacation

Mayor of Macdougal Street

Ramsey Lewis Trio Sound of Christmas

Uncle Frank

Paterson (again))

Make a Zine

Columbo

Piranesi

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

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

IDLES

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

The Crown

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

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

RSVP Podcast

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

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.

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Erasable Patreon

Keep Moving

Great British Baking Show

“Wildflowers” home demo

The Fall)

Stolen Sharpie Revolution

IDLES

Escape to the Chateau

Last Tango in Halifax

Star Trek Lower Decks

The Invisible Library

Musgrave debate pencils

Musgrave Hat

Baronfig Liberty

Pencil Revolution, The Zine

Coraline

The Mist)

If It Bleeds

“The Tell-Tale Heart”

“The Raven”

House of Leaves

11.22.63

Her Fearful Symmetry

Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters/Aliens/etc

Get Out

A Quiet Place

Sunset Boulevard

Sleepy Hollow

I Am The Pretty Thing that Lives in the House

Communion

Don’t look now (1973)

The Changeling (1980)

Black Christmas

Doctor Who, “Blink”

Eerie, Indiana

Stranger Things

The Road

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Downward Spiral

Undertow

Antichrist Superstar

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem