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No Playing Lawyer Ball

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...

Pencil Primer, Part 1

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 Bo...

An Impressionistic Budget

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 i...

Little Podcast Mustache

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 o...

Bearded and Abroad

Tim and Johnny check visit the new Blackwing pen, a modern Mongol pencil, and recent books and music — and more! Thanks for our Patreon supporters and to everyo...

The Dark Side of STEM (with special guest Ian Schon)

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 s...

Wide Nut Swamp Ash

Holidays getting you down? Or you just don’t know what gifts to buy for your friends, family, or even yourself? Join the guys for a look at the latest releases...

Stocking up on Scalpels

Happy October! This very autumnal episode is a short one — just some fresh points and tools of the trade. Johnny’s playing too much Mario Kart World, Andy regal...

The Hobonichi To-Do (with special guest Tyler McCall from Pencil & Paper)

We’ve got a special episode today. Tyler McCall, co-owner of Chicago stationery shop Pencil & Paper, joins us to talk about the havoc caused by the Trump admini...

Fresh Points of Bel Air Part 491043

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!) Be...

We All Have a Little Graphite In Us (with special guest Allison King, author of "The Phoenix Pencil Company")

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-genera...

No Canoodling at Walden

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’r...

Hot n Early

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 b...

Justin Timberlake Was Supposed to Be Here

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...

Keep That Eye Jelly

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 Littl...

We Use Glasses Like Civilized People

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 part...

RErasable: Episode 106 with Musgrave Pencil Company’s Henry Hulan

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. F...

I Found Some Dorks!

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...

A Very Soft Triangle

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 Ti...

Indiana Area Code Day

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, th...

I Want To Go To There

For this shorter episode, we’re fighting our pre-US election anxiety by talking about handwriting in digital notebooks. Johnny had a few questions about it that...

Posh Blond English Protagonist (with author Roland Allen)

Tonight, for our special Erasable Book Club episode, we discuss the new book The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper . And who else better to discuss it wi...

Roll On the Wrap On

Tonight we catch up on some Tools of the Trade, from watching too much British TV, to the Allman Brothers. We look at the latest Blackwing release, compare ADHD...

I Got Spinners on my Xacto (with special guest Leslie Herger)

During our Decade of Pencilcasting celebration, a few folks mentioned that we should talk more about art pencils, and our good friend Leslie Herger from the RSV...

Original Poison Core

In this episode, we;re taking a break from rooting for Team USA to check in with a midsummer episode about some fun new Blackwings, the latest Field Notes relea...

These Colors DO Run

On this episode of Erasable, the guys are trying to muster as much patriotic spirit as they can and talk about some of their favorite American-made stationery b...

Jimmy Neutron Zine Scene

After a few weeks of different mixes of hosts and guests, we’re back as The Terrific Trio tonight, talking about the latest Tools of the Trade and Fresh Points....

Eating Chicken Soup From A Stormtrooper Helmet

Tonight, Andy and Johnny are chatting, sans Tim, about some of the recent spring releases from Field Notes and Blackwing, recap Andy’s trip to The Happiest Plac...

A Box of Flamingos (with special guest Carol Beggy)

This is a fun episode, folks. We’re joined by Carol Beggy, a longtime listener, group member, newspaper journalist, and author of “Pencil”, one of the latest bo...

Potato Podcast Content

It’s been ten years, folks. In this episode, we talk to some of our favorite recurring guests — Brad Dowdy, Caitlin Elgin, Les Herger, and Caroline Weaver — and...

A Watershed Episode

Today’s episode is a short one — as we prepare for a bigger 10-year anniversary episode, we spent some time talking about our tools of the trade, and really foc...

The Old Country Buffet of the Mind

Andy is back from the other side of the globe, where he visited Japan looking for adventures —and stationery! Tonight, Johnny and Tim team up to grill Andy abou...

All Reachers Great and Small

Happy 2024, friends! We’re starting off with the first episode of the new year with a Fresh Points episode, talking about some of the cool new stuff to hit the...

Blood Erasers

As we wrap up 2023, Johny, Tim and Andy talked about tools that they used unexpectedly more than overs over the year. From Very Old Ticonderoga’s to dinosaur ta...

Shimmery and Sheeny

It’s been a while, and a lot of stuff has come out since we last podcasted as our True Selves. We’re rectifying that tonight, as we check out the latest release...

The Erasable Spellcast, Part 3: Mountain Dew Eldritch Blast™

Presenting Part 3 of our Dungeons & Dragons campaign with Dungeon Master Monica Corwin! If you’d like to see a video of this adventure, episodes 200 201, 202, a...

The Erasable Spellcast, Part 2: Waking up with an Elvish Coffee

Presenting the second part of our Dungeons & Dragons campaign with Dungeon Master Monica Corwin! If you’d like to see a video of this adventure, episodes 200 an...

The Erasable Spellcast, Part 1: You Gave It Your Awl

The first part of our Dungeons & Dragons campaign with Dungeon Master Monica Corwin gets underway! If you’d like to see a video of this adventure, episode 200,...

The Erasable Spellcast, Part 0

🪄 A D&D adventure, with Dungeon Master Monica Corwin 🐉 These guys are characters. For our two hundredth episode, we wax a bit nostalgic and also begin a new a...

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 Bart...

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...

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 perspec...

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 gritt...

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 li...

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 Blackwin...

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...

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 Cri...

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 & Lin...

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 fr...

The Erasable Podcast

All Aboard the Creativity Train (with special guest Joey Cofone)

Tonight, we’re joined by special guest Joey Cofone, co-founder of Baronfig and author of The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creativ...

Fickle Tim

In this episode, we name names — discussing specific examples of books that we turn to when we need a creative boost. Find out about new careers, the SF Pen Sho...

An Embarrassing Amount of Knowledge

This week, we kick off a multi-episode discussion about creativity, and in particular, books about creativity and the creative process. Today, we’re discussing...

Six Too Many Abs (with special guest Harry Marks)

Join Johnny, Tim, and Andy as we invite a long-time friend of the show Harry Marks on, to talk about his new novel, The Library at the Center of the Earth , and...

David Sedaris at Walmart

It’s hot as all get out, and that means it’s summer. It also means that the new editions from our favorite stationers have come out. Over the last few weeks, th...

I Can Heal Your Soul, But Not Your Foot

Being ecologically-minded citizens of the world, we don't like the idea of just throwing away perfectly good paper and pencils. This is especially salient this...

Rob Thomas Over Here

It’s the unofficial start to summer in the United States, and we’re here with white pants and pencils to check in before school is out and everyone starts going...

That Qualifies as a Quest (with special guest Caroline Weaver)

Before our upcoming book club, Caroline Weaver was kind enough to join us for an invigorating discussion about contemporary book clubs, and updates us on what’s...

How the Sausage Is Made

We’re getting ready to launch into a few episodes discussing our book club book, Palimpsest , but before we do that, let’s have a short little episode to talk a...

I am Also Pro Tree

Happy International Pencil Day, folks! It’s officially spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and we have some fun spring releases to discuss in all of their copper...

It's Awl Good (with special guest Ashleigh Coaxum, owner of The Paper Herald)

Tonight, the guys are joined by Ashleigh Coaxum, the proprietor of Baltimore’s newest stationery shop, The Paper Herald. Ashleigh talks about her stationery ori...

I Love the Feel of Cellulose in the Morning

Tonight, we are talking about the morning — morning pages, to be precise. We take a deep dive into Julia Cameron’s prescription for an enhanced creative life an...

We Don't Talk About BuJo

We’re well into 2022, so we would be remiss if we didn’t talk about planners! We discuss how we keep track of appointment and to-dos, and whether or not we can...

I Guess I Like Ben Affleck?

It’s been a few weeks since you heard our voices, but we’re back for a fun new year of pencil podcasting! We go through some fresh points, like Johnny’s bookbin...

Anything but the Chipmunks! (with special guest Less Harper)

Tonight, our good friend (and RSVP co-host) Less Harper joins us for a chat about bookbinding, the craft that she and Johnny practice to produce unique creation...

Unconvincing Wigs

This week, we’re looking back on 2021 and talking about what we’re most thankful for — both within the stationery community, and beyond. Plus, we take a look at...

National Zine Writing Month (with special guest Jemellia Hilfiger)

It’s the annual EraNaNoWriMoSHOW! Join Andy, Johnny, Tim and special guest Jemellia for a discussion of NaNo’s past, present, and future.

We Fired Tim

Okay, not really! But for tonight it’s just Johnny and Andy, talking about just the Fresh Points. We have some new Field Notes, new Blackwings, a new Squire, an...

Store-Bought Pencils

This week, Tim throws us a curveball. Last week, he asked us what our least favorite pencils are, and then he told us that we should only use that pencil for a...

Bust Out the Bone Folder

Paper is paper, right? Well, only if you think that pencils are pencils. In this week’s episode, your hosts talk about Unicorn Paper — that special formulation...

Bring Us Your Weird

This week, we are down one pencil podcaster and up one pen superpodcaster. Brad Dowdy of the Pen Addict joins us to tie up our trio while Andy is away for the w...

Sadsplaining to Johnny

Join us for a chat about the pencils that we each used during elementary school. With a 9 year age gap between our hosts, coming during the crucial years of a t...

Vacu-Sharp (Patent Pending)

Well, we inadvertently took a summer break so after a month off, we’re back to talk through our collected Fresh Points: from the new Blackwing 64 to an update f...

Someone to Squeal At (with special guest Caitlin Elgin)

Do you write in your books? Tonight, our special guest Caitlin Elgin joins us to talk about marginalia — why you might want to write them, and how you might wan...

They Had to Math That

Tonight, we’re celebrating Field Notes’s fiftieth Colors edition — uh, Fifty — with a pocket notebook retrospective: How did we first encounter Field Notes? Wha...

Fresh Points of Guinness

Today we’re keeping it simple with just a Fresh Points episode, covering everything from Blackwing’s rerelease of a pencil they’re still selling, Bob Dylan’s po...

I'm Just a Person with a Website (with special guest Tiffany Babb)

Today we talk about vintage notebooks, yet another new Blackwing, and mechanical keyboards. But also much to our delight, our friend and creative polymath Tiffa...

Ecstatic Høvel Talk

Andy and Tim have wrested control of the show back away from the devious (yet iconic) duo of Johnny and Charlotte, and we’re talking once again to Noah Bier fro...

Pencil Ain't Forever

You might notice something…strange about this week’s podcast. Do not adjust your podcatcher. What you are hearing is happening in Real Life and in Real Time. YO...

Blackwing 100!

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 point...

You Gotta Have Torque

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...

Correct Me if You're Wrong

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 examin...

Freestyle Swearing (with special guest Luke Sinclair)

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!...

My Sweaty Hands are Well-Documented

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...

Keep Your Finger Out of the Piranha Tank (with special guest Ali Serra)

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 pen...

The Mask of Tidiness (a special LIVE Thanksgiving episode!)

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 tha...

Big Into Inertia (with special guests Less Harper and Harry Marks)

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...

Demon Baby Pencil Sharpener

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 fr...

A Lid for Every Pot (with special guest zinester Ed Kemp)

Pencils and zines have both survived blogs, social media, even instant video apps. Tonight, we chat with Ed Kemp of The Word Distribution about his zine, Pencil...

The Hold That Thought Book (with special guest Abraham from La Vie Graphite)

Journaling is good for us. All of us. Tune in tonight as your three favorite journalers chat with journaling teacher and expert Abraham, writer and illustrator...

Defacing the Stars

It’s a short, just-the-Fresh-Points episode this week and our three intrepid hosts dive into the newest Volumes release from Blackwing. Show Notes and Links Era...

The Pen Dentist (with special guest Jesi Raine)

We’re giving you, our faithful listeners, a special preview of something we’re trying out for our Patreon supporters — an episode of our inky offshoot show, The...

Pencils My Grandmother Had (with special guest Dave T from Pencil Fodder)

Tonight, we are time traveling: through three times zones and far into the past. Dave T from Pencil Fodder joins us for a discussion of vintage pencils and mayb...

Seattle Trash Cans (with special guest Tina Koyama)

Maybe you’ve seen artists walking around your city, sketchbooks in hand, drawing what they see — perhaps even drawing you! Our friend Tina Koyama is a veteran u...

Where I Feel Most Free (with special guest Aaron James Draplin)

Maybe you’ve heard of the incredibly popular notebook brand Field Notes. Maybe you’ve heard us mention them a few times over the last six years. Tune in as we g...

Black Lives Matter

We’re not bringing you an episode about pencils this week, but instead a short message, and some resources for how you can work toward ending systemic racism in...

Happy Birthday, Blob Dylan

It’s been a long time since we updated our Top 5, and tonight’s the night! Tune in to find out what’s the same, what’s off the list, and what’s on. This episode...

An Operating System for Your Life (with guest Steven Lawson of Monk Manual)

Today’s episode is a short one, but don’t equate that with being light on subject material! We have a chat with Steven Lawson, the creator of a notebook organiz...

Thumb Ring, Tank Top, Lucky Coin (with special guest Kiki Petrosino)

Perhaps this year more than in years past, poetry can help to sustain us spiritually and intellectually during the COVID-19 pandemic. To help us wrap-up Nationa...

It's All Well and Good Until You get Arrested for Mail Fraud (with Courtney Cochran)

The COVID-19 pandemic is still gripping the globe, and most of us are quarantined to some degree in our homes. To be human is to be connected with other humans,...

A Podcast of One's Own

While March is Women’s History Month, we’re kicking off April with a question based on Virginia Woolf’s 1929 A Room of One’s Own — if you have a room of your ow...

YOLO Pencils (a special live COVID-19 episode)

Social distancing doesn’t mean we need to be socially isolated. On March 23, 2020, while the world is staying indoors and away from others to stem the surging t...

Scrooge McDuckin' Some Pencils

We are back from our Baltimore adventure, with stories to tell, tattoos to show off, and to celebrate our six years of podcasting. Tune in as we reminisce about...

Live from the Baltimore Pen Show

(On February 28, 2020, Johnny, Tim and Andy met up in person — for the first time ever — in Baltimore to hang out, get tattoos, and record an episode in front o...

Henry Pencils (with special guests Nicole and Tim Delger)

We have been talking about the exciting new brand and marketing efforts of Musgrave for a few months now. Tonight, we are lucky to have creative directors Nicol...

The Ponytail Stage (with special guest Caroline Weaver)

We are lucky enough to be joined again by Lady Graphite herself, Caroline Weaver. Her new book Pencils You Should Know is out this week! Tune in to hear all abo...

Cedar-Sniffing Johnny (with special guest Caitlin Elgin)

It’s nearly a month into the new year. How is your organization system working out? Tonight, we are joined by our friend Caitlin Elgin, to talk about getting ou...

The Christmas Book Flood

We are ringing in the New Year with special guest Brian Manning, owner of Portland’s new Revolutions Bookshop. Tune in to learn about the adventures of running...

I Like How You Think, Welfle

The year is almost over, and as you rush around in a panic over what to get the very specific type of people in your life, don’t worry. We have your back. Join...

Stay Golden, Pony Boy

With new releases from Field Notes, Musgrave and Blackwing, tonight we tackle all of the Freshest Points at the setting of Autumn 2019. We’re pleased to announc...

Comfy Chaos (with special guests Ted Walker and Adam Webb from the Take Note Podcast)

Join us for our usual pencil goodness and, later, as Johnny and Tim join forces with Ted Walker and Adam Webb from the Take Note podcast to talk the real skinny...

Emotional Support Co-Host

At the start of National Novel Writing Month, join your three hosts for a discussion about the month ahead -- as well as details about our brand-new Patreon pro...

The Hemingway Toilet

Tim, Johnny, and Andy talk stick to a papery set of fresh points this episode, digging into the latest releases from Field Notes, Write Notepads, and Baron Fig....

Feed 'Em to the Trash Wheel

Filled notebooks. We all have them. Or, we don’t, because we burn them or otherwise dispose of them. Tonight, join Andy, Johnny, and Tim for a somewhat personal...

The Balanced Core of Neil Young Albums (with special guest Jacob Cecil)

Bullet journaling is everywhere! But often the books you see are full of colors and drawings and all sorts of ink. Tonight, join your three hosts and special gu...

Chasing the Details (with special guest Jinnie from Three Staples)

It’s Tim’s birthday today, but he’s here with Andy and Johnny, and a very special guest: Jinnie, editor of the blog Three Staples! She talks about how her passi...

Mumbletrack

Finding the best blogs, podcasts, Instagrams, and photographers in our little world is hard enough. Try picking your favorite! Tonight, your hosts torture thems...

I'm Not Bossy. I'm the Boss (with special guest Caroline Weaver)

Teachers says you need a pencil case. You are tired of dropping your pencils down the library stairs. What to do? Tune in to episode 121 for a discussion of pen...

Impossible Points

It’s been a few weeks, and some of our favorite companies have dropped some lovely new releases since we last recorded. We’ll be back next week with a special g...

Johns Hopkins and the Half-a-Bluejays

Summer is upon us, and we are here to greet the season with a breezy Fresh Points episode featuring all of the Graphite Goodness you’ve come to expect for 119 e...

Spotify Take the Wheel

Today we get musical and chat about the music we listen to while writing. To accompany this episode, we put together a little Spotify playlist with our music su...

Traumatic Tattoos

Andy is not with us tonight, but Tim and Johnny are joined by Mike Hagan, of Leadfast fame. Tune in for a short Fresh Points episode from the hairier co-hosts a...

Cedar Slob

Today as the weather gets warmer across much of North America, we’re talking about writing outside. We discuss some of our favorite places to write out of doors...

Watermelon Slushies Every Single Day

In this episode, Ana, Caroline and Andi — your favorite hosts — go all in on some of their favorite non-pencil products, like lip balm, boxed wine, Imabari face...

A Natural Fit (with special guest Alexander Poirier)

We do a lot of speculating about Blackwing editions here on the show, but today, Andy and Johnny get the scoop straight from source, with our special guest: Bla...

The Whackbling

Erasable is five years old! Join Tim, Andy, and Johnny in this short episode for the Usual Fair of Tools of the Trade and Fresh Points and also a few looks back...

Stationery is My Copilot (with special guest Bull Garlington)

Sign here, please. Tonight, we three hosts are joined by writer and signature expert Bull Garlington — the Analog Attorney — as we discuss developing your signa...

Eiffel Tower Points

Holy machined metal! Andy and Johnny are joined by Noah Bier from Brahman Design for the main topic of this episode, in which Erasable hosts a broadcast about p...

Open-minded AF

As a New Year’s present, Andy, Johnny, and Tim present their current methods of organization and planning for 2019. Tune in to find out who is writing a book, w...

Expensive Things for the Desks We Don't Want (with special guest Mike Hagan)

The holidays are fast approaching, and we are here to solve all of your stationery related gift-giving issues. Tune in as Andy and Johnny are joined by Mike Hag...

Fondling Notebooks

It’s the end of National Novel Writing Month, the 50,000 word November writing sprint in which brave souls pound out the first draft of a novel in 30 days. Toni...

Election Chili

Seasons change. People change. Feelings change. It’s true for Exposé, and it’s true at Erasable. Every so often, we like to check back in with our current top 5...

Single Barrel Pencil (With special guest Henry Hulan III from the Musgrave Pencil Co)

You might have noticed the recent social media presence of Musgrave Pencil company, the 102 year old pencil company located in Pencil City, TN. We are very happ...

Way Past the Solstice

It’s that time of year. School is back in session. Sweaters are coming out of storage. Pumpkin Spice is a phrase uttered with either disgust or excitement. And...

The Tree Does Not Care About Your Magnum Opus (With special guest Dr. Lenore Hoyt)

Maybe you’ve heard that graphite is a type of carbon. Maybe you’ve heard about how similar graphite is to diamonds at the molecular level. Maybe the idea that s...

I'm a Four-Minute Man (With special guest Will Fanguy)

We’re a podcast about pencils. It is a digital entity that exists in cyberspace but which centers on pencils and related IRL items. The irony has never been los...

Aggressively Sharpie'd (With special guest Caroline Weaver)

It’s that time of year again: lists, big packs of pencils, and ten cent composition books. It’s back to school time already! Tonight, Andy and Johnny are joined...

Known for His Nubbins (With special guest Randy Ragan)

Bullet pencils used to be souvenirs of adventures had, marketing items, even electoral tools. Tonight, Andy and Johnny are joined by Randy Ragan for a discussio...

Keepin' it 💯 (With special guest host Caitlin Elgin)

More than four years ago, Tim Wasem, Johnny Gamber, and Andy Welfle were just mild-mannered men, until the day they were stabbed with radioactive graphite that...

99: We've Got 99 Problems and a Pencil Ain't One

Ah, the hum of AC units, oscillating fans, and bugs. Before we hit the big 100, we’re here to talk about the latest releases from Field Notes and Blackwing, as...

Super-Semi-Hex (with special guest Lary Grimaldi)

Field Notes. Maybe you collect them. Maybe you are even a completist. Maybe you fill them like no one’s business. Tonight, Andy, Johnny, and Tim are joined by p...

Mechanical Animals (with special guest Vivian Wagner)

We’ve received many requests throughout the four years we’ve been making this podcast to talk about mechanical pencils. But it’s not something any of the three...

Pro-level Hackwinging with Artist Jason Patterson

If you’re a member of our Facebook Group, you get to enjoy Hackwings on the regular. If not, picture well-matched Blackwing ferrules and erasers stuck atop your...

Random Acts of Graphite

Sometimes it might seem like we talk a lot, but we’re only a bi-weekly show, and there are multiple voices. Tonight, we host another live call-in show! We hear...

Sausage Lining Veneer

It’s spring. That means that it’s spring release season from our favorite stationery companies. Join Tim, Andy, and Johnny as they levy their judgements on the...

I Don't Shoplift, Toffer

Happy belated International Pencil Day! To celebrate, your fearless (new and improved) hosts are talking all about mechanical pencils — mass market clicky penci...

The Smells of Portugal (with special guests Jess Letkemann and Chris Jones)

Have you ever wanted to know more about the old business you read about on an old piece of advertising? Just married this past fall, Jessica Letkemann and Chris...

Hearing Your Sips in HD

What attracts the Pen Addict himself to pencils? What pencils does he recommend for pen lovers, and what should Inky Folks look for in graphite-friendly paper?...

Analogous Analogs

While it rhymes nicely with Erasable, we don’t often like the word irreplaceable. Sometimes pencils stop being made. Sometimes they were limited editions to beg...

Janky Caps dot Ninja

Maybe you carry around pens because you’re secretly afraid of falling and stabbing yourself through the chest or neck with a sharp Ticonderoga. Maybe one of Era...

Accidental AlphaSmart Podcast

We’re back from the holidays and are ready to chat about pencils and pencil-adjacent holiday gifts we received. Still reeling from the Bomb Cyclone, Andy, Johnn...

The Musgrave Whisperer

It’s that time of year again: Winter release time! Tonight, on the live-streamed 87th episode of Erasable , Andy, Johnny, and Tim talk about the new goods from...

California Writer Types

On this episode, we diverge from pencils for a moment to look at another analog writing tool we all know and love — typewriters! In the second half of the show,...

A Very Beefy Zipper

Tonight it’s just Andy, Johnny, and Tim, talking about some new non-pencil stuff from Blackwing, some Baron Figs that just roll with it, the just-announced Fiel...

Pepperoni in My Pocket

Tonight, we managed to pull our collective selves away from Stranger Things 2 and are excited to present another call-in episode — this time, with Caroline Weav...

A Happy Blue

Pens. That’s not a typo. Tonight, Andy and Johnny are joined by Elaine Ku from JetPens, and they all talk all about pens. Basically, what pens are best for dyed...

What Rhymes with Wopex?

Fall release season is upon us, with new gear from Baron Fig, Field Notes and Blackwing. Join Andy, Johnny and Tim as they explore what’s new this season and ho...

So You'd Like to Pencil

You’ve just realized that ink fades and runs, that your computer is less reliable than an actual cloud, that analog is -- to quote our friend T.J. Cosgrove -- N...

Don't Call Us, We'll Call You

In addition to the Fresh Points, Tools of the Trade, and general pencil goodness you have come to expect from Andy, Johnny and Tim, tonight the Terrific Trio is...

The Pencil Man Cometh

Tim’s not with us today, but we do have a guest we’re excited to chat with: California Cedar Products’ own Charles Berolzheimer! He talks to us about his compan...

"Debossed Bees" Is My New Band Name

As temporal beings in a material world, our preferences and usage habits change. As such, we periodically like to update our popular Top Five lists. In Episode...

Taking Up Space in My Pencil Case

Tonight, Andy, Johnny, and Tim take on Summer release season. We talk about the new stuff from Baron Fig, Blackwing, Field Notes, and Write Notepads. There’s a...

A Suspicious Amount of Pencils

Coming off of a few weeks’ rest, your three Peerless Pencilheads are back to talk about the art of travel journaling. More specifically, we’re looking at what t...

Hashtag Tactical Vape

In our three-quarters-of-a-hundo 75th episode, your three aging hosts are joined by pencil blogger Michael Hagan from Lead Fast. They explore the vast world in...

The Empty Space is for Pasta

You may have heard of a New York-based company called Baron Fig that’s setting the stationery world on fire once every two weeks, and then some. Tonight, Johnny...

Millennial Pink Rosé

Your three fearless hosts are back after an April Fools' coup. Tonight they are joined by their favorite Pencil Ladies, Caitlin Elgin and Caroline Weaver from C...

Smash the Patriarchy, Then Work, Then Whiskey

It's a brand new month, and our fearless co-hosts are refreshed and ready to go with Fresh Points, Tools of the Trade, and a very special discussion about homem...

Squeak Factor and the Bassline Horribles

Tonight, we are joined by Dee Scolardi from The Weekly Pencil! Join Andy, Johnny, and Tim as they rap with Dee about her blog and discuss such pencilicious topi...

Tim Wasem and His 10B Voice

Many of us in Pencildom have been going through a box lately; a box from CW Pencil Enterprise that shipped on March 1st. The first installment is out, and your...

The Nütbok with Harry C. Marks

Today, we’re talking with our friend and fellow podcaster Harry C. Marks about a post he made in the Erasable Facebook group about companies that release quarte...

Unstale, Unblunt Objects

Tonight, we get to talk to someone responsible for designing pencils! Perhaps you have marvelled at the swelt Bridge Pencils or the rare Jumbo Hex pencils from...

Not Everything Sucked

2016 is fast fading and might go down as the year that erased the most celebrities. But not everything that happened this year sucked. We got another year of Bl...

Cowabunga Bossanova (with Caroline and Caitlin from CW Pencils)

It’s that time of year, and we’re all thinking not only about the gifts which we would like to receive -- but also the gifts we would like to give. To that end,...

Mit Mesaw and the Top Fives

Tonight, Tim is back after paternity/Cubs leave. He, Andy, and Johnny update their top fives for the first time in almost a year. Check out the cross-overs and...

Composing Ourselves

Tim is taking a bit of paternity leave, in order to welcome his daughter into the world. Andy and Johnny are joined tonight by Less Harper, artist, art therapis...

Baron Fig and His Dozen Archers

Today, we’re excited to be the first to cover the birth of a brand-new pencil, the Baron Fig Archer. To celebrate, we’ve invited Joey Cofone and Adam Kornfield,...

South Baltimore Fancy Quarterly Stationery Party

This fall, the quarterly editions of three of our favorite brands all came out within a week. Join Andy, Johnny, and special guest Chris Rothe of Baltimore’s ow...

CarboWeld Stronger Points

For an in-between weeks episode, your three brave hosts are joined by intrepid hostess Caitlin, recording from the CW Pencils Graphite Mines with Andy while he'...

Too School for Cool

Tonight, your hosts take you on a tour of the Back-To-School season of 2016. We run through our favorite back-to-school supplies of this year. If you could go b...

Rammstein in the Shower

Bleistifte! We’ve discussed Japanese pencils and American pencils at length, but we’ve seemingly overlooked products from that great pencil-producing country, G...

The F Bomb

Have you ever wondered where those funny pencils with a #2 and a fraction pencils fit into the hardness/softness scale of pencils? These are your #2 1/2s, your...

For Rosie (or, Fresh Points of Bel Aire, Part 5)

Johnny's not with us today, but he has a good excuse. Instead, we're honored to be joined by Caitlin Elgin, a genuine Pencil Lady from Pencils.com. We're just t...

Taxonomy of Stubbage (with guest June Thomas)

There have been some great releases from the USA in the last few weeks, and we are waiting to see what Blackwing has cooking up for us. While we wax both critic...

Rubber Lubbers (with guest Ana Reinert)

After more than 50 episodes, we finally tackle our namesake: erasers. We're joined by our good friend and Veteran Eraser Destroyer Ana Reinert of The Well Appoi...

My Badger is Better Than Your Badger

Get out your Stars and Stripes, and get to wavin’. Tonight, we are presenting the second episode in which we explore pencils made in the Land of the Free. Stay...

Pencil Butts

The butt. The tip. The non-business end. In Episode 52, we are discussing the backends of pencils -- those colorful dips, those precise plastic caps, the naked...

A Trash Fire of a Pencil

We’ve hinted. We’ve teased. Now we finally get Phat and talk about wide-bodied pencils. What are they good for? What are the best? How old can we be and still u...

In Case of Dowdy, Break Glass

Tonight, experience our revamped Pencils 101, with some basic — and not so basic — information and strategies for Your Best Pencil Practices. On the occasion of...

You Can't Spell "Pencil" Without "Pen"

We're delving deep into the world's greatest writing utensil: pens. Later, Brad Dowdy of the vastly superior Pen Addict podcast joins us to give his tips on sel...

Members Only

Tis the season of spring quarterly releases! Andy, Tim, and Johnny are back to talk about the newest releases from Field Notes, Blackwing and Write Notepads & C...

Vanilla Coke and Advil

Johnny and Andy help Tim through some issues when he admits he has too many concurrent notebooks going at once. They talk about pocket-notebook-only systems, jo...

Make America Sharp Again

Sometimes you buy a piece of stationery, full of high hopes, and it annoys, disappoints or infuriates you. This week, Tim, Johnny and Andy engage in a smear cam...

Love Nibbles on My Pencil

Tonight’s guests need no introduction. Caitlin Elgin and Caroline Weaver run CW Pencil Enterprise, the online and real-world Mecca for pencil lovers on the Lowe...

Nothing a Sharpie Can't Fix (Fresh Points of Bel Aire, Part 4)

The guys have a short episode this week with just some fresh points, with a little baseball talk thrown in at the beginning for good measure. We’re discussing F...

The Bugle Boys

This week, Tim, Johnny and Andy are keeping Musgrave weird with their top five pencils at the moment, to kick off 2016. They (belatedly) explain the Palomino Bl...

Tombow Mono C3PO and the Blackwing Falcon

We're ringing out 2015 with a special guest from The Emerald Isle: T.J. Cosgrove. Our Four Veritable Pencil Heroes rap about the best pencils of 2015 and what b...

Hitting the Marks (Not Literally)

Tonight, during your last chance to complete NaNoWriMo, we are joined by writer and podcaster Harry C. Marks, host of Covered, a podcast about books and authors...

I, Pencil Nerd

The trio reunites, and Erasable is over the hill! After over 55 hours recording, it's time to pull out the black balloons and suggestive birthday cards. Andy, J...

A Thoreau Discussion About Plumbago

Tonight, we have done some time-traveling and are very happy to bring you a true American Pencil Hero. Your hosts coast through our usual Bi-Weekly Pencil Aweso...

Wax On, Wax Off: The Inner Peace of Colored Pencils with Ana Reinert

For our second live-streaming episode, we are finally tackling colored pencils with special guest Ana Reinert, Chair of The Well-Appointed Desk. Ana shares her...

What’s the 211, Buster?

In this historic episode of Erasable, the guys experiment with a lifestream during the episode. So forgive us if we're distracted by a chat room from time to ti...

The Steinbeck Stage (or, Fresh Points of Bel Aire, Part 3)

It’s that time of year again, when the air smells like pencils, PBJ and school bus vinyl. We are back from nearly a month off the Air, since we took turns being...

Land of the Rising Pun: What Makes Japanese Pencils So Special

Your three pencil hosts are all back together again, and we are joined by our favorite pencil shopkeep, Caroline Weaver. She tells us about the allure of Japane...

More and More and More and More and More with Mike Dudek

In this episode, Tim flies solo and chats with Mike Dudek from The Clicky Post and Dudek Modern Goods. Mike and Tim talk about the origins of the Dudek Modern G...

Cover Me

Tonight, we are joined by the amazing Cody Williams, maker of beautiful bags, nifty notebook covers and wonderful wallets. Your hosts rap with our Red-Bearded F...

Yippie Cahier, [EXPLETIVE DELETED]

Lots of people hoard limited edition pocket notebooks, and lots of people use them. In this episode, your hosts reveal intimate details about their own notebook...

KUM Masterpiece Theatre

Due to popular demand, Andy, Johnny and Tim have compiled a list of their current top five pencils. The guys discuss their lists, chat about the Blackwing 725,...

Tim's ExistPENCIL Crisis

On the occasion of our thirtieth episode, we are joined by Chris Rothe, of Baltimore’s Write Notepads & Co. We rap with Chris about brass-ruled paper, his left-...

Tintentod (“Ink Death”)

While we spoke briefly about the first Erasable Book Club Book, The Perfection of the Paper Clip by James Ward on the last episode, tonight we really dig in. We...

Clips, Tacks and Kraft Paperbacks

Tonight, Tim, Johnny and Andy are joined by Bryan Bedell, from Field Notes HQ. You might recognize Bryan from the amazing videos Field Notes puts out with some...

Going Full Hamster

Who needs fancy fountain pens and archival inks for writing when the Journalling Bug hits you? If you’ve got a pencil, you’ve got a medium which will allow your...

One Year of Pencil Ramblings

(Cue party music) Has it been a year already? Your favorite Pencil Pushers are starting off their second year of Casting the Pod, AND celebrating International...

The Laddie's Man (or, Fresh Points of Bel Aire, Part 2)

In our second all-Fresh Points episode, we take a breather before our upcoming one year anniversary. We also dish on the Palomino Blackwing 602, one of the most...

The Big Notebookski

In the fourth and final installment of Erasable’s episodes on paper, Andy, Johnny and Tim explore the virtues of the large-format book. Your fearless hosts tack...

Small M Moleskine

In the second Paper Episode, Andy, Tim and Johnny discuss their favorite moleskin-style notebooks for pencil. While big M Moleskines dominated a decade ago, tod...

I Got One Note in My Pocket

Tonight Andy, Johnny and Tim venture into Paper Territory. We are proud to present our first Paper Episode, in which we discuss the seemingly ubiquitous softcov...

Bullet (Pencil) in the Blue Sky

In the first episode of 2015, your hosts wax nostalgic about 2014 -- the year of the bullet pencil -- and also look forward to what the new year holds for penci...

The Big Two-Oh

In this, the twentieth episode of your favorite podcast, Andy, Tim and Johnny give you three weeks of Fresh Points to make up for our short absence. We wax nost...

The Prospector General

In this episode, Tim, Johnny and Andy put on their red, white and blue and salute their three favorite pencils which are made in the USA. While American pencil...

National Pencil Callus Club

National Novel Writing Month is upon us, and tonight your fearless hosts explore the best writing gear with which to bring forth your 50,000 words before the en...

C’mon, Baby — Let’s Do The Twist

Tonight, Andy, Johnny and Tim are joined by Jay Smith and Jon Fontane, otherwise known as Huckleberry Woodchuck and Metal Shop CT. Jon and Jay are the creators...

The Amazing Erase

The guys are living up to their podcast’s name this week, where the main topic is about erasers! Did you know, for example, that “rubber” got its name because o...

The Joke is There is No Joke (with David Rees)

We have hit the guest jackpot this month, as we are joined tonight by the be-smocked Mr. David Rees, of Artisanal Pencil Sharpening and Going Deep with David Re...

Incense Cedar House Rules

This week, the men are joined by veritable Pencil Royalty: Charles Berolzheimer, or “WoodChuck”, CEO of Cal Cedar and Zurückbringer of the Blackwing. We rap abo...

Fresh Points of Bel Aire, Part 1

This week, we have lots of Fresh Points, so we’re skipping the main topic and bringing you a lot of short discussion items! From t-shirts, to stickers, to Word....

Full Metal Pencil

The guys interview Jeff Grant, engineer and creator of the Bullet Pencil ST Kickstarter project. He discusses his previous Kickstarter campaigns, explains his i...

Ain't Nothing but an HB Thing

The Erasable Posse is joined tonight by the Master of All Things Ink, the Legendary Mr. Brad Dowdy, the Pen Addict. The men discuss excellent new stationery ite...

The Graphites of Wrath

Today, the hosts got a little extra cray from an additional round of cocktails, after Andy realized he forgot to hit the “Record” button about 40 minutes into t...

Bullet Pencil with Butterfly Wings

On episode 9 of the The Erasable Podcast, Johnny, Andy, and Tim explore the world of bullet pencils. Johnny invents a new cocktail, “The Podcaster.” There’s a l...

Heroes of Pencildom, Book the First

In which we discuss the first round of Pencil Herodom, heaping praise upon some of the influential pencil-wielding individuals in our lives. We also discuss the...

Power to the PPIL

This week, Tim is away, so Andy and Johnny rap with Heath Cates, blogger at Pen Paper Ink Letter. They discuss #PencilWeek, a 7-day long pencil-centric series o...

The Brotherhood of the Traveling Sharpener

What good are pencils which are not sharp? In this episode, Tim, Johnny and Andy tackle the perplexing issue of pencil sharpeners. Our lovely listeners have sha...

Dazed and Reused

We discuss how pencils fit into the environmental movement and some issues to think about when weighing pencils’ environmental impact. As we will see, pencils a...

Woodfellas

Although we love nothing more than sharpening up a good pencil and writing with it, there are some pencils we just want to keep in pristine shape. It’s the coll...

Indepen(cil)dance Day

Happy National Pencil Day! It was this day in, 1858, 156 years ago, that Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil with its own eraser. To celebrate, we’re breakin...

A Ferrule to Arms

We humbly present The Pencil Glossary episode, in which you will learn everything you ever wanted to know, and everything which is indispensable for you to know...

The Inaugural Episode

So the audio’s a little rough, and we ramble about the philosophical implications of writing with wooden pencils, but Erasable is up and live with our inaugural...