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Got this dagger from Lal Hardy at New Wave Tattoo in Muswell Hill, London. Lal has been tattooing for over 30 years and is as absolute diamond. Had such a great morning there as well. The dagger goes through a tattoo from Alex Binnie, which is his version of the first tattoo I had done over 40 years ago.

Just got a cover-up from Trevor Taylor at Liberty in Seattle. I had one laser removal session done at Fade Fast in Dallas and, though I've got nothing but good things to say about Fade Fast, decided I wasn't patient enough to see it though. Trevor was great and I'm very pleased with the result. It won't be my last from him. The photo was borrowed from Trevor's Instragram.

Finally did it! Thank you @slayer9019 for finally getting our asses in gear. Great to meet you @HaydenRose @Fala and your dude Jason, @ironchef you are far too kind with that print.. truly. @dirbab hope you got back over that bridge ok, homie. That hair is looking luxurious. Sorry it's not a better picture! - - - Updated - - - Aaaaand it's crooked. I am so good at computers.

Got the pharoahs horses from Fergus Simms a few weeks back and the dagger and skull from Gore both done at Chapel Tattoo, also my friend got the pair of shoes from Gore.

fun one from a couple of days ago

This one will be a bit photo heavy... First one is on a fellow who came in and got a family crest on his forearm, said he got this 30 or so years ago early in his time in the military, but couldn't afford the lettering the first visit. He had to go back a two weeks later to add it. Second one is on a guy who came in from meeting my dad at the VA. He got his somewhere in Kentucky, also early in his military service. The rest are on the fellow I mentioned earlier who got his in 1964. If I recall, the Hot Stuff was in Chicago, the hula girl was in Hawaii, and the rest were either Hawaii or San Diego. The last one is the only one we couldn't easily decipher... theories were mostly a heart/banner/leaves design, or a sparrow.

OK until I take a pics of the other tats let me see if I can upload a piece I got from Lupo Horiokami when he guested at Idle Hand - I pulled it off his instagram.

Not the latest work I have, but a few days after the Friday the 13th tattoo I got on the bottom of my foot, I gave doing one on the bottom of my other foot a go. The first hit was 34 days ago. After nine days, it pretty much looked like this, so I gave it another pass. Scabbing finally finished falling off a few days ago. There's a bit of what I think Shawn Porter called "iguana skin" around it, although not as severe as what he had on his Occult Vibrations finger tattoo updates. Probably going to work into it again soon, just to see if I can get it to stick... learning the hard way.

I have more bugs than I realized. Itsy bitsy spider by Ben Grillo: Moth by Capilli Tupou: (I gotta get healed pics of this thing, but it's behind my knee.) Spider lady by Richard Stell: And a Bob Roberts black widduh:

Those double sharks on the chest are cool as hell.

Did another overnight trip to NYC. In just over 24hrs I got a spider from Tomas Garcia and my wife got her sleeve from Timothy hoyer finished. Great time going to miss hanging out while Timothy tattoos my wife but I think a year from now ill start a med sized hoyer tattoo. I love my Tomas tattoo...he's just got so much cool shit and the process of looking through his bible to find a tattoo is just fun. So much great stuff to pick from. It was my first time at smith street and everyone was great and had a nice atmosphere...I will be going back at some point because boltz is still one of my favorite traditional tattooers and ill pay more for his work. Nice guy as well. Love NYC tattoo trips but they burn me out! Back home to trees and clean air and less people. Tomas posted a pic of mine on IG. I'm on the train so ill try to later. Timothy stuff i need to ask him first.

You could have started an intro thread to properly introduce yourself and ask this question instead of spamming the forum with inane, throwaway posts to get enough posts to start a new thread.

Hey all, I just joined and started flicking about thoroughly enjoying this thread only to come across this guy here! I live in melbourne and the guy with the chad koeplinger in Rough Operators post is my good friend who I was drinking a beer with only hours ago. This piece looks amazing now that its fully coloured and complete, I'll see if I can find a photo somewhere! Small world, great thread! Here's a sizzler from El Bara, from Madrid.

The tattooer asked if you wanted it facing you, b/c she knew that is what you wanted, because it's a common and pastiche trend. However, we're happy you're happy.

starting my back on tuesday with Eddy Deustche, been waiting all summer for this extremely stoked that its finally time to start.

The next time someone wants to get a belly or collar rocker I'm gonna suggest that they put it upside down so they can read it.

Ok, advice: Leave the bandage on for at least a few hours. The less you do to it during healing process the better. Don't get it facing you; while this may not bother you or your friends, it's an A1 rookie mistake. And if you decide to get more and go bigger and start delving into the world of tattoos, you may feel a little sheepish about it. Good luck!

I've been reading a lot of comics. That is all.

More details please?!

Some O'Donnell tigers on his blog: A few of the Tiger themed tattoos I've done in the past.

bad photo of some drawings i did today

Just booked in to do my right hand with Steve Byrne at the West Texas Tattoo Convention. Still waiting to hear back from Daniel Albrigo on time and such. One of my co-workers just booked in with Paul Dobleman as well... beyond excited!

Just got this at Clubhouse Tattoo in Oakland from the very cool Carolyn. (CLTattooing on here) A good friend of mine also got an amazing skull and rose tattoo, hopefully Carolyn posts pics soon!

Yesterday my wife had her 4th session on her backpiece, and the background brought it to life and we are so stoked I just had to share it with you all :-) The piece is made by Bonel from Corazon Santo in The Netherlands, which also did both of my sleeves and chest pieces :)

Anyone hear about it? Anyone going?

I like the way you think!

After stuffing our faces at Taqueria Poblano. I think LST get togethers are necessary.

First, apologies to @IAmMattLewis for the thread hijack! For three years, I lived in Old Town Alexandria, but at the north end, close to Del Ray. Both are great little neighborhoods. I just moved into the district proper over the summer. If you're ever back in town and want to check in on Del Ray, let me know! Maybe some Dairy Godmother action? Though I guess it's getting too cold for ice cream, huh? Whomp whomp...

Hello everyone. I've been lurking here for quite a while, reading and researching and checking out all of your tattoo pics at the recommendation of a few folks from another forum I frequent. I figured its time I introduced myself and stopped being a creeper. I've got a few small (and mostly pretty shitty) tattoos from poor decisions in years past. I don't have pics of any of them, and there's only one I wouldn't be embarrassed to share. I'm lucky enough to live in Chicago, so I'm going to head over to Great Lakes in the next few weeks (hopefully, fingers crossed) and talk with them about a few different loose ideas I have, see what they can design for me. I'm also pretty fortunate to have a job that doesn't care about my tattoos (neither the ones I have or the ones I'd like to get) during the day and one where they're nearly expected at night. Anyway, great forum. I've already learned a lot here, I'm looking forward to participating in the conversation.

Thanks everyone for the very warm welcome(s)! And congratulations to myself for being number 6K...so I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

Awesome, the best cure for shitty tattoos is just to get better ones. Welcome dude!

My name is nick.. new to this kick ass website. Scott Sylvia interviews are super rad . changed my out look on the craft . I have been tattooing for 5 years respectively out of san diego CA. My goal is to continue to be grateful to the art form, :D and to the ones that been consistently putting out solid tattoos for much longer then me. truly on the shoulders of giants c/s

Ah, when I worked in DC, I walked to the Smithsonian (mostly the Hirschhorn) almost daily on my lunch breaks. I miss being that close to good stuff.

bio mech all over my body

Nice! The Portrait Gallery is my favorite Smithsonian. Definitely show that panther head, too! Hope you had a good experience and I'm sure it looks awesome!

Welcome @NICKY! I agree: the interviews are one of the best things about LST.

There is no more manly tattoo than a rose. Enough said.

i'll be there. planning on getting a piece or two. - - - Updated - - - i'll be there. planning on getting a piece or two.

you should visit the Bay Area Convention next weekend, all of the best tattooers are all there and you could leave with a rad tattoo :)

Well, I give you points for sticking to your guns, regardless of the good advice given. I hope you like it. If you decide to stick around here and get more, I hope you educate yourself on good tattoos, and are able to listen to other's advice.

@Orangutango if that's a Simpsons reference then you might be my new favorite person haha. Love that Moth tattoo

My wife and I just signed a lease on a massive warehouse space. The adventure begins!

Super cool! Nice work, @cltattooing.

By Adrian Hing on my inner thigh. - - - Updated - - - We were gonna try and fit in a snake in a similar gap on the other leg but went for something I've wanted for a while instead, when the snake didn't want to fit:

This isn't an insect, but it does fall into the tiny tattoos that make me happy every time I see them category: A tiny baphomet by Seth Wood, done a little over a year ago. He did a Necronomicon on me previously and I saw him after it was finished and he said he wasn't satisfied with the tattoo because the pages in the book were blank and he wanted to put some illustrations in them. I suggested a twenty-sided die and he did the rest, including that little baphomet that he drew on with a sharpie...I didn't even know what it was going to be until it was there. It makes me happy because it's this kind of secret tattoo that not many people know about. It's one of my favorites and I'd love to get more little things like this.

Hahaha GET A TATTOO OF SOME RIMS! Ask your artist to make em spin!! @NotExpected85 A rimshot is not an image, it's a sound. It signals the punch line of a joke. (Mom/wow heart zinger Hoggy did) But yes, now I am encouraging you to get a tattoo of some 22s

6000th LST'er. Welcome Nick. Big up yourself everybody, for making this a place people want to hang out at.

Ever since I became aware of what the world of tattooing is, I've also been aware of the closely guarded secrets and the policy of not sharing the gold. And it's a good policy. Not everyone deserves to see the end of the rainbow. And then there's other times where I see that keeping everything to yourself or the immediate close circle isn't always necessary, or that it's more like brass not gold. I also scanned the Rudy interview from the same old copy of TA that I scanned and posted the VyVyn article from in that other thread. I tried to make the scans less crooked this time. Seems to be the best place to post this.

I spoke with an old Korean/Vietnam Veteran for about 10 minutes at my work today about tattoos. He said he got these down at The Pike 51 years ago, but couldn't remember the exact artist who did them.