Tattoos

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

@Niro the shop owner Don MacDonald gave me the Badass of the Year award. Steve'S schedule could be full indefinitely. But he chooses to only take on projects that he wants to do.

@JCMx800 rotary machines with needle cartridges are far superior to old fashioned machines for so many reasons. I like how everything even the tube is disposable and hygienic. They are also totally silent. They do single needle tattoos that are hammered in that are even more old school than machines. But that is just silly.

[Niro]

only of the year? 
but seriously you must have an insane pain threshold. Did you struggle with it at all? Did Steve space out the time on the high pain areas like inner bicep and elbow ditch?

Yea JCM, I would not do whole day sessions, which included high pain areas like inner bicep or ribs, no way i can hack that shit. I agreed to do 6 hour day on my calf as I think it will be comparable to outer arm, which is low pain. Plus after doing 5-6 hour on my back, it's probably going to be piss easy to handle in comparison.

[Max Power]

I feel like I'm getting more pain sensitive these days, but I'm sure it's also because I get the more painful areas now. Could do 9 hours on the chest a few years ago but 6 hours on the back & ribs are too much now.

Some sessions need to take Long - my back was fully handdrawn within 2 hours and it toolk us about 7-8 hours to get all the lines in. That was the worst session so far, but if I had to split my whole backpiece in 2-3 hour sessions I would have needed to travel 20+ times. So I'm glad that the artists keep working as long as they do, I'm sure 6 hours+ is not an easy job for them as well.

And I share the sentiments regarding rotaries, it just doesn't feel right to me. But that's just an elitist purist view, like comparing Vinyl to MP3. The objective results shouldn't differ much, at least in the old school motive range. (Realistic might be a different cup of tea.)

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

@Niro he did the back of my arm to the elbow the first day. My shoulder and inside the bend of the arm the 2nd. The outside of my forearm the 3rd, and the inner forearm the last. Honestly other than near the wrist and near my armpit (where I am extremely ticklish) the was almost no pain at all. He gives me ibuprofen during the sessions and plenty of hot tea with honey and apple juice.

I've pulled out my own teeth with pliers before. So, my pain tolerance might be higher than average.

Regarding rotary tattoo machines, I just go to a tattooer who's work I like. I know not having to listen to a buzzing machine for hours is really nice. I think most of the progressive tattooers in America use them now. I think a lot of the newer rotary machines reproduce the stroke of a coil machine. So the difference in quality or techniques is virtually the same.

I asked Steve about it and he likes using the most advanced technology available. He always has the newest phone and laptop and uses his computer to draft his designs. He does paint stuff in oils and owns many old school tattoo machines. I think they like the rotary machines because they are so easy to use and there virtually no clean up. You just throw everything away.

But I'm not really a part of any scene nor am I a tattooer- so I just go by the quality of work the tattooer outputs.

If all the sewing machines at Iron Heart broke and they wanted to use modern ones, I wouldn't care one iota. I wouldn't care if the quality was the same. I just like Iron Heart because the materials and craftsmanship is excellent, and the fabric is awesome and comfy. I like that they don't have slaves making the clothes too. And the clothes look sweet as heck.

[Max Power]

^love it! Mermaids are always a great motive and this one is really awesome.

[Niro]

This is my back piece so far after another 2 hour session yesterday. It goes down to my butt. I will spare anyone that sight until it's finished.

[Anesthetist]

I really like the mermaid @TrickHell really clean.

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[Max Power]

@Niro it looks awesome, who's doing it?

[den1mhead]

@Niro great work [emoji106]

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[Niro]

Thanks 

It's Joe Farrell of Kilburn Original Tattoo Studio. He's done all my ink so far

[Tidal]

Saw this on IG earlier from Bailey Robinson.  Can't be 100% sure as I don't own one (sobs), but the background looks like a 155 to me?

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[atm23]

[Tidal]

Two from yesterday, Mahakala and bamboo filler.  Done by Kola Hari in London;

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[Max Power]

Great, the bamboo filler is really cool.

[Niro]

Those are cool!
I do like the bamboo filler. I have also been thinking about adding bamboo to my tiger tattoo

[Tidal]

Nice, thanks guys[emoji120]

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[Niro]

Also, that's another great artist in London I learned about. We are lucky to have so many based here

[atm23]

A few shirts that I printed with some of my hand drawn traditional designs on them. Let me know what you think.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MementoMoriCo?ref=hdr_shop_menu

[atm23]

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[JCMx800]

January: Chris Dettmer
February: Uncle Allan
March: Chris Dettmer
April: Desertfest Berlin, maybe another tattoo from Allan or Nitz?
Damn, the year starts good!!!