WOW. this is great! it's awesome that you have this after all these years. i wish i had my first machines...a set of spaulding pumas. i do have a couple of frames that were my second liner and second shader. thanks for sharing!

Curiously i find the machine stuff really interesting ,not the mechanics of them but the different models and history .I guess its like a sports persons affinity for the equiptment in a really traditional ,specialised way I guess sort of akin to hand made crafting of cricket bats from English willow .Strange metaphor i guess -perhaps i should just shut my mouth !

that one rules. post the Pumas!!!!

awesome!. do you ever use it anymore? haha

i like the brown paper bag....

my first machine was a national swingate right out of the box, i remember it came with one super skinny brass tube already set up in it. that was my liner, if i needed a shader, i had to borrow one from someone else.

i remember aaron had a supreme that didn't look too far off from yours when he came to work with us.

my first shader was a really ugly contraption seth put together for me when he was still just selling them to friends for the most part. i have a pic of it somewhere.

Great story Scott! I'm loving that Ace of Spades engraving on the machine. I remember back in those days in crafts class (Mr. Mole?? or some shit) a lot of Aaron's crazy drawings had the Ace of Spades in them. So awesome.

i dont use it primarily because i use machines i build for people mostly, as for aaron and the spade it was his first tattoo done by pote it was the pushead one i believe.haha ill put up the pumas next one is at my warehouse and the other is in my drawer i use it alot. glad you guys like this ill try to keep up on it lord knows i have enough of them.

Sweet story...Miller passed away a couple years back, had a heart attack while tattooing....his wife dropped by the other day to tell she was closing down the shop.....

When Jeff and I were starting out and had just met Aaron and you(Scott) for that matter, he made us our first machines while giving us a tutorial. He made me my first machine and it was supreme based.....unfortunately that got 'disappeared' about 18 years ago and has yet to re-surface. Scott can you believe that was over 20yrs ago now??????

oh Gold Coast. one of the first tattoo shops i ever was exposed to.

thanks for sharing some of the jems in that box with me while i was there. I would've stayed and talked machines all night but my lady friend was hungry and i was pretty tapped out after that sitting. Can't wait till you share all the other jems.