20 Sep 2026 07:57
Episode 242: Ren Faire LARPing (Pencil Primer, Part 3)
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
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