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Yes, he is fast. More importantly, he is one of the very best tattooers around.

Hope you don't mind, but I fixed your post.

Fuck it, I'M SIGNING UP!

Im with some of the other comments....although i personally have done some of these things... prosthetic painting? pinstiping? etc.... what has this got to do with tattooing. how bout acetate etching, needle making, hell toilet cleaning. maybe have some drunks show up and haggle price....these things have a lot to do with street shops.

I think the next challenge should be when Oliver Peck tells the contestants to "Build a tattoo machine out of hair dryer parts. You will have one hour to complete this challenge, and it must have three speeds".

Got this Jerry pig from Josh Sutterby a couple of weeks ago (the photo is from when it was fresh). Guess i'll have to get the rooster on the other arm now!

Wilson tattoo wins every time. Fast or not. That being said, he did a huge backpiece sized Pharoah's horses on my buddy that took a rough total of around 6 hours between 2 sittings. So yeah, fast.

There are some things that, once said cannot be undone. this is one of them: I. Dare. You.

Do you want me to go to her shop and bust ass in her face?

it's not even like she copied some flash, she traced actual paintings people were selling prints of at that same convention. She also seems to have printed out photos of people tattoos and traced those. You put out a flash book specifically to be copied in a way, straight up tracing and selling is still wrong but flash is flash. To go to the extent of finding pictures of paintings and actual tattoos, size them up, print them out, trace them, put it all together in a book. If she's put that much work into her own drawings they probably wouldn't be that bad.

Oh yeah, I met Erik Estrada while wearing my CHiPs t-shirt, that I got from my cop friends as a gag gift for christmas.

Hands down best tattooer at any style or genre, he can draw ANYTHING and tattoo ANYTHING... Richard says, "best tattooer in the world".

I think mister Ron Henry Wells need more spotlight. He has been tattooing for what, 4½ years and is allready doing something of his own with the owls etc. The Laughing Hyena

Might as well laugh.

Signed up here after hearing that Nick Colella had posted a few pix of old tats of mine. Looked around, saw lotsa good stuff, and thought I'd stick around and maybe throw in my two cents now n then, so feel free to flame! I put my first tat on myself when I was 12, I'm 57 now, and it hasn't stopped. I did a good bit of old-skool hand-needle jailhouse stuff way back in the day, and most of the work I have now covers old jailhouse pieces. What else can I say? I like to visit and watch at other parlors, but I get all chauvinistic and shit about who tattoos me...I've never gotten a professional piece anywhere but at Chicago Tattooing, and I can't see that changing now. I first went in there to gawk, man, mabye around 1966, 1967, something like that, and got my first electric tattoo done in there by Dale Grande in something like 1973 or 1974. That's me-hope to get to know some of y'all.

Jondix

I'm sorry to hear about her condition, but I don't really see how that's relevant to her tattooing other peoples custom tattoo designs. I would be bummed out if I saw a copy of one of my custom tattoos, woodcut shading or not.

I love this question on the application "Briefly describe your personality." I would just write the polar opposite of al fliction.

I've been in the Phoenix area since April 0f 2010. Finally getting into get something from Aaron at the end of April.

ITT: bill is the man.

Aight, gotcha... Sorry didn't get the joke the first time around. Then in that case they should also chop down and carve their own shaft to hold the needles or forge it if they decide to go with a metal one.

Ah yes you are right. I should have known with the snakes, but the standing on lotus' threw me off. Now that my idea is out in the open, no one is allowed to do it. I call dibs.

Thought this one was cool. I still think tiger head hand tattoos look great for some reason.

@kylegrey - I think we all expect photos should you reach your cheek bone vortex definition ;) (lol, not a series of words you normally see together)

@Cork - your idea may still be safe ;) going off the kings avenue blog, this isn't a representation of Kongo-yasha, but an image of Gundari Myoo, both of which are part of the five great wisdom kings and look pretty similar

I can see asking around. Since my colors don't show up in 55 gallon drums i can mix anything anyone needs. I know folks dig the CCS Gold as well as the Seafoam and I can easily mix it up. Send me a little, Andy and I'll mix it up. Thanks!

Damn, nice intro! Welcome, Dan.

@Kev Hey Kev, thats me in the pic. I treated my Brother in Law to lunch on Sunday. There was no way was I paying for a £10 tattoo as well.

I wish I had something intelligent to say, or at least a witty comment or observation... but all I can say is - F@#k Me. By Mike Rubendall kingsavetattoo | Just another WordPress.com site

I'm booked with Bob on March 22. And I'd like to echo my man @Avery Taylor's comments above and say that I'd love to get something from Bryan Burk. He is a chip off the old Spotlight block, but with his own take on things. I can't wait to see what you get from him!

This thread always makes me super jealous. I'm going to stop eating for a while to afford more tattoos...

I would love to see it but, I don't blame you for not posting it. Bailey Robinson tattooed my left hand, and I think that I will either have Robert Ryan or AP Shrewsbury do the other.

Had another session last week on my arm with Rachi. We're up to about 16 hours now, the grey is almost done, next session will be the start of some colour. Thinking after this is done, I'll go back to one-shot pieces for a while. Waiting months for it to be "finished" due to time/money constraints is getting frustrating >.<

^^^^back to the Hatch! ^^^^ I got my left hand tattooed by AP Shrewsbury Friday @ Erik Von B's shop- what a great experience that was! My first time with a rotary, and made a new friend. The tattoo is a cross and a heart, and it's very strong (sorry not posting pix publicly, its kind of unique)

In London today with my brother in law celebrating his birthday. What better way to cap the day off with a great tattoo.

Jeff Srsic

Ugghh.....Okay, I want to first apologize to the rest of the forum, I just started posting yesterday but I feel VERY strongly about this subject. I'm a 2nd generation tattooer, my mother has been tattooing for 33 yrs, and learned how to make "machines" from Paul Rogers, I'm sure that name means nothing to you, but it should. My father has been tattooing since '75, his first shop job was with Bob Shaw and Col. Todd, once again names I'm sure mean nothing to you, but should. My step-father has been tattooing for 23 yrs, and he guests once a year at Inksmith and Rogers, once again a name that I'm sure means nothing to you, but really really should. I myself have only been tattooing for 10 yrs, I was a little late getting to it, and realistically still just a journeyman. My family has been tattooing for a combined 104 yrs. So yes they are called machines, coolness has nothing to do with it. It's about respect, respect for the craft that has fed my family for decades, respect for those that have come before, respect for those that have paid their dues and dedicated their entire being to Tattooing. When new tattooers who know jack shit about jack shit have over inflated egos and meet any criticism with comments about "haters", they pretty much shit on everything that my family has worked for. So in summation go fuck yourself. You're not welcome in my world.

Crikey!! this is from Trevor McStay, he is dope.

lets be honest a monkey could of made those cuts. they definitely choose have the cast for the sole purpose of axing them. if you really put the worlds best ten artist on that show the judging would take weeks to figure out whos work was better. right now its a no brainer

~quoted from a good friend.

Thoughts on e2: Ton Jones isn't "heavily tattooed". He's just heavy. My fiancee's 81yo Jewish Bubbe used to have the same sunglasses that Chriss Angel... errr.. Navarro is wearing on the car challenge. Peck calling James "hillbilly" was funny. Al Fliction's glasses are stupid. As stupid as Al Fliction. I want to see Peck and Nunez tattoo a pig in a 32* meat locker, pinstripe a car and braid Navarro's hair to match Al's goatee. I want to eat crawdaddies with James at a hoedown. I can't believe the producers didn't have a backup for psoriasis guy other than two tons of fun. I feel bad for having watched another episode.

I don't know why, but I seriously can't stop literally lol'ing at this ;)

How about trading your Pitbull in for one of these MFs

There's a guy in SF named Maron Hasegawa. He had full sleeves from Colin Stevens, then decided he wanted a full suit. He flew to Japan and, in one year, got fully suited by Horiyoshi III: It's not shown in those pics, but it goes down to his ankles. Donburi style, as they say in Japan. I think he got tattooed every other day for a year. Just think about that for a minute. I had the pleasure of meeting Maron at Diamond Club a few years back, and I asked him a similar question: does it feel weird to be [/i]done[/i]? He seemed to imply that it was. He said he asked Horiyoshi about tattooing his head, to which the master replied, "Nah...you're done." There's also a guy in one of Horitaka's books who has a full 9-dragon body suit that Horiyoshi did in a year and a half. It's everything but the strip down the center of his chest ("river style"), and the whole thing--neck to ankles, full sleeves--is black and gray. I think about that guy from time to time, because it's insane to me to think that someone went 30+ years without a drop of ink, then made the huge decision to get fully suited. I just can't get my head around it. As I alluded to in the Collecting Different Styles thread, I'm really happy with what I've got, but it's all over the place. The thought of having a full cohesive body suit is absolutely foreign to me.