Fountain Pen Radio – The Tree Ring Pen GiveAway: Saturday 01 September 2012

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Join Fountain Pen Geeks for a live broadcast / recording of our upcoming FPGeeks Podcast.

Hosts: Dan Smith, Stephen Brown, Eric Schneider

This Week:
We’ll draw the winner of the Old-School, Write-In, Tree Ring Pens Natural History Fountain Pen GiveAway! Tune in live and be among the first to know who wins.

In this episode:
Inkcyclopedia: Montblanc Midnight Blue
Cherry Blossom Memo Stickers by Appree
Hands-on with the Franklin-Christoph Model 25 Eclipse Fountain Pen
TWSBI tones down the 850 IROC
Omas Vintage 360 Turquoise: The Awesome Review
VIDEO: The Making of an Edison Beaumont Demonstrator
Oliver Taylor shows us his Daily Carry Pens
Bad Cartoon Friday The Final Showdown!
Lamy 2000 and the Origins of Lamy Design, Part 3
Tree Ring Natural History Fountain Pen GiveAway Infographic
Tree Ring Natural History Fountain Pen GiveAway:
Congratulations to the winner: Vaughn of Ohio

We will be testing a new streaming solution involving Google+ Hangouts On Air that will live stream to our YouTube channel. This won’t be a regular hangout where anyone can join. It will be limited to only Eric, Stephen, and Dan, but anyone will be able to watch. We will embed the video feed and chat room in this post shortly before we go live.

The reason we’re moving away from UStream is because the video and audio are rarely synced and the audio for the audio only podcast is of very low quality. After the show, we highly encourage you to leave feedback in the comments, not the chat room.

This episode was recorded live on Saturday, September 1, 2012:

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  • Michel de Montreal

    SWEET!!! :) but unfortunately I’ll be missing out on this one…. food and beer festival just out of town, can’t miss it ;)
    Have fun guys, i’m sure it’s gonna be a great one :)

  • http://okami-whatever.blogspot.com O-kami

    I actually MIGHT be able to make this one! WOO HOO!!

  • ianmedium

    should be able to be in at the beginning but will have to leave shortly after so will watch the rest later, good luck with the new system guys.

  • http://fpgeeks.com/ Dan Smith

    7:34am This post has been updated. You should see the YouTube embed and the ZeroIRC Chatroom.

  • Joost Plattèl

    yes we do

  • Dirck in Saskatchewan

    Very exciting! This is the first time I’m going to have the freedom to see it first-hand.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    I gather we are just to observe? no sign-in on this system?

  • http://fpgeeks.com/ Dan Smith

    The video should be live. You might have to refresh the page to get it to show up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    No it’s in the very nice suburb of Troy

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    no Geek buttons in Michigan?

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    Eric has converted Doc to mug instead of glass ; )

  • TonicLime

    I found it!

  • http://okami-whatever.blogspot.com O-kami

    I can see the chat room but I cannot comment?

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    both Eric & Doc are synced much better on this system. lots of streaming lag on last ustream

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    very pretty (y)

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    ditto, pretty but pricey.

  • Inkiefingers

    Where’s the show? I’ve got nuthin’ on my Droid 4. Any suggestions?

    • http://fpgeeks.com/ Dan Smith

      You should see it at our youtube channel

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    Q: does posting the cap scratch both the cap, and the pen? Otherwise, very nice looking pen!

    • http://fpgeeks.com/ Dan Smith

      I wouldn’t think so. We’d need to use it for much longer to find out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    TL refresh the page, and click on the arrow.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    Oh-masssss!

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    if you can accidentally railroad, it’s full (y)

    • http://fpgeeks.com/ Dan Smith

      I would disagree. I can railroad the Ahab and I wouldn’t even consider that semi-flex.

      • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

        I can easily back-pedal on this – am thinking of vintage gold nibs – the Omas is surely gold nib? Gorgeous pen!

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    Pilot V-(arsity) not disposable, pull nib-section straight out, refill, and push nib-section back in

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    Lego (y)

  • Tamara

    Nice format for the weekly show! No problems with freezing or anything :)

    • http://fpgeeks.com/ Dan Smith

      Good to hear!

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    orange pens don’t sing to me, but that persimmon swirl sure does! Recently testdrove 3 Edison pens. Exceeded my high expectation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    very stable.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RsMom2ButtonLady Chris Parham

    never found the google hangout page

  • Dgator

    Success! Video & audio were clear. Thought Stephen was sitting in my living room, instead of halfway around the globe. Never lost the feed, unlike my Ustream experience. The chat is an area for improvement. Figured out where to type comments; had to scroll down to keep up with current chat. The superb audio/video more than makes up for the shortcomings of the chat. Thanks guys!

  • Esquilo

    perfect! video and audio clear. nothing more to say just watch and listen1

  • cerbeos

    Soooooo happy you decided to go with G+!!! I can actually watch the video now!!!

  • The Ruffled Quill

    Well the Google + habg out was much better quality audio and sync and best of all no ads – great choice

  • ArtJourney

    I never have a problem with Ustream, I don’t see ads (on the iPad app) and the chat is fab, however I struggled with this. It wasn’t fed to YouTube live/hangout (I checked all the live streams) and the embedded video on here froze on me at least 10 times, each time requiring a refresh and a relogin to chat.

    The chat was old school and painful (software advances for a reason!) and would randomly boot you. The video was clear, but no clearer than usual as that generally depends on the hosts/guests cameras (some are better than others). I missed the onscreen graphics as the desktop views were a bit distant. There was no speech lag, which made it sound like you guys were having a proper conversation rather than talking over each other (like it usually does).

    I liked the video switching, obviously apart from when someone coughed or scraped their chair and the video would switch for a second to a shocked look, lol. All in all, for me, no better than usual; frustrating to find (I was sitting in the Ustream channel for 15 mins wondering where everyone was!) and buggy. But then I don’t have a problem with ustream, so… Perhaps it’s better this side of the pond!

  • writingrav

    I thought it was much, much better. Didn’t try the chat because I can’t watch live at the new time. Definitely much better than UStream, though.

    • Maja

      +1!

  • Jim Blackie

    Far superior. This also removed the issue of Eric always stepping on the lines of the others, making it hard to follow discussions at times. I guess there was an issue of time delay through the broadcast.

  • OcalaFlGuy

    IMO, the Lamy 2000 Stainless should hereafter be known as the Lamy 2KM

    Does that sound bad or what?