The Erasable Podcast

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.
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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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!
Show Notes & Links
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Read a transcript of this episode at Erasable Scribe
Erasable Patreon
Erasable Facebook group
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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!
Show notes & links
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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!
Show Notes & Links
Erasable Patreon
Erasable Podcast Discord invite
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