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[zetroc]

Wow, that's incredible. Can't wait to see that one finished!

[TheFnTexan]

Totally spontaneous addition today. Had the day off so I stopped into Royal Tiger in Austin to drool over BHR's new flash sheets. Bailey was there with nothing to do sooooo about two hours later, I walked out with this beauty. 

[Hoople]

Got this yesterday!  A lot of firsts for me here.

First real post on this forum(barring the introduction thread), first real large scale custom piece for me. It was also my first time under a rotary, and first time trying a new healing method.

The machine felt quite a bit different than what i was used to, but this was my first leg tattoo, so that could simply have been the tighter skin on my legs.  In general, more of a light pressure, then a pinpoint stab. 

James Mullins of Lotus Tattoo, Hemet CA, was very patient with my 3 or so hours embarrassingly twitchy leg, and constant nervous tattoo chatter.   (Also my neurotic aftercare questions, and emails.)

Obviously, yes, I'm a Fallout Fan.  I put a mid way tattoo up because I honestly thought he was nearly done here. I laid back and let him finish the final pass without looking too much.  When I saw the final pass, I was pretty much giddy.  He asked, just before I sat down, if he could go a little crazy with the color.  I was super glad that I agreed.

I hope it's ok to post this pre-heal!  If not, I can pull it down and repost when it's done!

Edited September 3, 2016 by Hoople
Janky formatting, #2 for forum rules, #3 for fun story time

[polliwog]

@Isotope when you described your idea to me, I have to say that I was thinking, hmm...okay. That worked out in the best possible way. The weird thing is that the roses just might be the toughest thing about that tattoo.

[cltattooing]

3 hours ago, Hoople said:

Got this yesterday!  A lot of firsts for me here.

First real post on this forum(barring the introduction thread), first real large scale custom piece for me. It was also my first time under a rotary machine, and first time using a Sanidern sheet.

James Mullins of Lotus Tattoo, Hemet CA, was very patient with my 3 or so hours embarrassingly twitchy leg, and constant nervous tattoo chatter.   (Also my neurotic aftercare questions, and emails.)

Obviously, yes, I'm a Fallout Fan.  I didn't know if it was appropriate to show lines/shading/color pics, but I thought I would at least put the before/after the final pass of color because I thought he was nearly done with the before and was kinda blown away.   When I saw the final pass, I was pretty much giddy. 

I hope it's ok to post this pre-heal!  If not, I can pull it down and repost when it's done!

Hey man.. I gotta say something real quick and I hope you can understand where I'm coming from. 

It ain't ok to post the type of tattoo machine your tattooer used on you, on the forum. It may not seem like much more than cool info to have from the customer's point of view, and I would agree that it's rad of your tattooer to share that with you. But at the same time, this is still the public domain where everything you post is accessible to anyone with an internet connection, and you can be sure that people who have their eyes on learning to tattoo will be reading through the forum. Basically tattooing is a complicated and difficult trade requiring a specialized skill set where training is necessary, and it's just not safe or responsible to be sharing technical info about it. Not sharing technical info is one of the rules of the forum and it's there for a reason.

Hopefully this didn't come off as a lecture cause that's not where I'm coming from, just hoping to spread a little accountability/awareness. Cheers :)

Edited September 3, 2016 by cltattooing

[Hoople]

10 hours ago, cltattooing said:

Hey man.. I gotta say something real quick and I hope you can understand where I'm coming from. 

It ain't ok to post the type of tattoo machine your tattooer used on you, on the forum. It may not seem like much more than cool info to have from the customer's point of view, and I would agree that it's rad of your tattooer to share that with you. But at the same time, this is still the public domain where everything you post is accessible to anyone with an internet connection, and you can be sure that people who have their eyes on learning to tattoo will be reading through the forum. Basically tattooing is a complicated and difficult trade requiring a specialized skill set where training is necessary, and it's just not safe or responsible to be sharing technical info about it. Not sharing technical info is one of the rules of the forum and it's there for a reason.

Hopefully this didn't come off as a lecture cause that's not where I'm coming from, just hoping to spread a little accountability/awareness. Cheers :)

 

Thanks! I totally missed that rule in my skim.  I edited it down quite a bit, and I hope that falls more in line.

In this case, I was literally just sharing info available on his public Instagram in the last 5-7 days, but I totally get it. People can get that info themselves.

Can I ask, and I'm totally not trying to be a smart ass here, is this post ok now? In terms of generic rotary machine, and Saniderm sheet?

Edited September 3, 2016 by Hoople

[cltattooing]

9 minutes ago, Hoople said:

Thanks! I totally missed that rule in my skim.  I edited it down quite a bit, and I hope that falls more in line.

In this case, I was literally just sharing info available on his public Instagram in the last 5-7 days, but I totally get it.  If people are curious, they can find him by name fairly easily and get that themselves!

Can I ask, and I'm totally not trying to be a smart ass here, is this post ok now? In terms of generic rotary machine, and Saniderm sheet?

Looks good to me! And I don't think there's anything wrong with sharing saniderm healing methods, there are a few threads here with that info too. 

Thanks for being receptive to feedback, that is super cool of you. It's a bummer that your artist is sharing that info on Instagram, but what can ya do I guess... 

[Hoople]

10 hours ago, cltattooing said:

Thanks for being receptive to feedback, that is super cool of you. 

No worries! Forum rules, and I'm still just getting back into tattoo culture after a 15 year hiatus.   I appreciate you being straightforward and cool about the rules,  and taking the time to explain why they're there to a noob like me. 

[DJDeepFried]

Did I miss something or did OP edit his original post? Is it out of bounds to talk about rotary vs coil in terms of the client's experience (lack of pain, noise) or the different "look" they achieve?

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[Dan]

2 minutes ago, DJDeepFried said:

Did I miss something or did OP edit his original post? Is it out of bounds to talk about rotary vs coil in terms of the client's experience (lack of pain, noise) or the different "look" they achieve?

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I was wondering this too.

Edited September 3, 2016 by Dan

[polliwog]

If I'm not mistaken, he edited the original post.

Edited September 3, 2016 by polliwog

[Dan]

28 minutes ago, polliwog said:

If I'm not mistaken, he edited the original post.

wasn't his original post was quoted in cltattooing's post ? (unless she edited her quote ?)

 

 

Edited September 3, 2016 by Dan

[polliwog]

Yes, but I think edited posts will also show as their edited versions even when quoted.

[Hospitelli]

11 hours ago, cltattooing said:

57 minutes ago, DJDeepFried said:

Did I miss something or did OP edit his original post? Is it out of bounds to talk about rotary vs coil in terms of the client's experience (lack of pain, noise) or the different "look" they achieve?

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Considering there is already a thread on here about them I'd say no. 

 

[Hoople]

Hey all, yea, I went back and edited to bring it in line with standards.

And yup, it looks like this forum architecture does edit quotes to match the quoted area of text.  I was wondering that myself when I did my editing last night.   

15 minutes ago, Hospitelli said:

Stuff on rotary and coils that the quote thingy didn't get right.

Thanks for linking that!  I do want to join that discussion as well, because I did notice some differences and was wondering if anyone else had!

[viezure]

Small intentionally blurry pic of my new tattoo (to match his madness :p), but i'm so excited! Will come back when i have good shop pictures.

Edited September 3, 2016 by viezure

[Patrick Bateman]

Well, my 2nd session with Garver went down this past Friday.

This pic was taken right when it was done.

Best part is, he asked if I was interested in sleeving out my arm.  I obviously agreed and more sessions are to come.  Going to connect my Back to the Future portraits with some other elements.

[cltattooing]

I edited the quote intentionally so that the info didn't remain in my post. It's not really a big deal. Also nothing wrong with talking about tattoo experiences at all, in my opinion. It was just the brand of rotary that was mentioned, which falls under the technical equipment umbrella. 

[Hoople]

 

I guess these aren't technically my newest, but they are only a few months old. (Friday 5/13) they were new to me in several ways, and I love them. I also wasn't' sure where else to post them!)

I wasn't really that big of a Traditional American fan until I saw Dave Kruzeman's winning back piece from Ink Master. Side note: I'll be seeing Dave for a piece on my knee in a little over a month. I'm super pumped.  It pretty much blew me away, made me dig deeper into tattoo culture and to do a ton of reading and researching on Norman Collins and his apprentices. 

That lead me to the Friday the 13th tradition and got me thinking about some fo the bad luck I had with tattoos when I was younger. When I saw this rework of Jerry's "Superstition is for Sissies" black cat, I knew it was time to choose my own tattoo luck, and pick better artists and tattoos  So, I made sure I always have a black cat in my path. Ian "Jonezy" Jones did these for me at True Tatoo, Hollywood and was insanely fast getting them in.  I think the whole thing was under 90 minutes and the shading was my most painless shading I've ever had.  After the fact, these hurt so bad I mentioned them in the "most painful tattoo" thread.

This is the un healed picture, but they healed nearly perfectly.  This is just the only picture of them where my actual feet(not the tattoos) don't look super gnarly because I can't take a good picture of them with my phone, and I don't want to bother anyone else to take pics of my big gnarly man feet.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Hoople

[otisc]

I posted an update in the Initiation forum, but realized it isn't as widely seen. Here is a condensed version:

Session 3 on the dragon sleeve is done. I went in thinking we would color it in and I'd be done or nearly done. Nope! 5.25 hours of green and red. In the ditch. Ouch.

April:

May:

Last week:

I'm very happy with it so far, but dying to get the final touches of detail into the dragon.

I count 120 cherry blossom pedals all the way around. Given that 2 min each average is four hours, I'm doubting we will even finish next time.

[Isotope]

On September 2, 2016 at 9:17 PM, polliwog said:

@Isotope when you described your idea to me, I have to say that I was thinking, hmm...okay. That worked out in the best possible way. The weird thing is that the roses just might be the toughest thing about that tattoo.

Thank you so much! It's actually healing pretty rough because I move so much and it's in a creasy, tough spot. I'm trying my best to baby it, but I have a couple smalls scabs I'm nurturing. 

[te0h]

Started this in January (i posted the lines here before)... this is 5 sessions in w/ 2 hrs each time. Again, I want to thank the LST community for leading me to Jason Brooks -- I could not be happier w/ the results :D

Edited September 9, 2016 by te0h

[otisc]

12 hours ago, te0h said:

Started this in January (i posted the lines here before)... this is 5 sessions in w/ 2 hrs each time. Again, I want to thank the LST community for leading me to Jason Brooks -- I could not be happier w/ the results :D

Very nice! I'm in Austin also. Kinda want the artist completing my first sleeve (Scott Ellis, Triple Crown) to do other arm. Kinda want to mix it up Jason Brooks is definitely on the short list. Like this a lot. 

[otisc]

On July 1, 2016 at 3:18 PM, wildcat said:

Got this awesome piece this week on the spur of the moment/walk-in from Tommy Stegall at Baldy's Tattoo in Radcliff, KY (near Fort Knox). It's my first American Traditional tattoo and I am in love :)

Wildcat

I'm catching up on unread items and just saw this.  Awesome with a capital A. 

[Devious6]

Got this today - crappy picture so it's hard to see the colors. I'll post a better pic tomorrow after it is a bit less irritated and in better light. This is my 9/11 Pentagon survivor nod. I had the artist perch the eagle on a pentagonal-shaped piece of rubble. Had originally wanted to have the date 9-11-01 in the center but, after getting feedback here, decided against it. I'm glad I left it out. I asked him to create some clouds and show the sun beginning to peak out - really based on my desire to speak to the focus on the future and not just the event itself. I was very, very lucky to survive that day - this piece has much meaning.