The Pencil Primer returns with part three: the other end of the pencil. We trace the eraser from stale bread crumbs to Goodyear's vulcanized rubber to Hymen Lipman's well-timed patent sale, then get into ferrules — wartime plastic ones, the Blackwing's famous clip, and why American pencils wear erasers while Japanese and German ones mostly don't. But first: Andy falls down a Carter Family rabbit hole, Johnny finds a forest green ink and an all-black Musgrave Ceres, and Tim awaits Blackwing's new Telecaster pencil.
Show Notes & Links
Show notes
Erasable episode 237: Pencil Primer, Part 1
Erasable episode 240: Pencil Primer, Part 2
Lost Weekend by Phoebe Bridgers
Trio by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris
Trio II
The Johnny Cash Show
The Carter Family
Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns
Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Field Notes Explore America: Northern California
Penco Bullet Ballpoint Pen Light
The Gentlemen (series)
The Gentlemen (film)
Grantchester
The Vicar of Dibley
The Art of the Fold by Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol
Asvine C80
Jacques Herbin Vert Forêt ink
General's Cedar Pointe
Paper Mate EarthWrite
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
Tires
Pilot Metropolitan
Pilot Plumix
Diamine Aurora Borealis ink
Nahvalur Nautilus
Against Convenience by Gabe Bullard
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Musgrave Ceres 909 Midnight
Musgrave America250 Ceres 909 Red, White, & Blue Set
Justin Ostrander on YouTube
Blackwing Volume 33 1/3
Tombow 2558
Mitsubishi 9852
Blackwing x Fender Butterscotch Blonde Telecaster pencils
Blackwing x Fender Butterscotch Blonde Telecaster notebook
Blackwing x Fender Stratocaster pencils
Blackwing Volume 725
Edward Nairne
Charles Goodyear
Vulcanization
Kneaded eraser
Will It Blend? iPhone
Hymen Lipman
The brief and fascinating history of WWII-era pencil ferrules
Bic Evolution
Uni-ball Air
Tombow Mono eraser
Mitsubishi 9852EW
Staedtler Noris
Telephone pencils in action — pencils with a tip for dialing rotary phones
Supreme Court gift shop gavel pencils
Hemingway Home & Museum store
Sprout plantable pencils
Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil
The Blackwing pencil: a history
Eberhard Faber Mongol
Mirado
Golden Bear
Richard Best Futura
Venus Velvet
Craft Design Technology pencils
Camel pencils and the integrated eraser
Itoya Helvetica pencil
Erasable Patreon
Erasable Podcast Discord invite
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Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
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Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
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Tim Wasem
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