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  1. Dean Schubert
    My favorite tattoo book of all time is Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos By Samuel M. Steward, PhD. At some point I'd like to write a review of this book. Sam Steward is also known as Phil Sparrow in the tattoo world. Steward played a hand in starting out two of the greatest tattooers of the second half of the twentieth century, Cliff Raven and Ed Hardy. I could go on and on about this book so I'll try to limit it here. Part of the book focuses on Street Shop tattooing in Chicago and Milwaukee during the 50's, Along with Oakland in the 60's. The other part of the book looks at tattooing from the psychological side. All in All a must read for every tattooer or anyone curious about tattooing. Its available for purchase on the interwebber.
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    Its funny, I totally blew up in the past over somebody going what I felt to be over the line. I don't know if lines were crossed in this case. But hey, thats where the fun is at. If we weren't into crossing lines, we wouldn't be consumed by tattooing. Plus it gets boring talking about pop culture, I'm into tattoos. I guess I like some MMA and motorcycles too.
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    Like I said Aaron, Questionable territory. I'm thinking private messaging might be a good way to handle some of these issues. I'm not looking to give away info, or enable those who haven't "paid dues" . On the other hand its nice to talk a little history and mention things that are no "secret" to any artist halfway paying attention. I think its good to hold back on some info, however every tattoo that goes down , professional or not , reflects on the art and industry as a whole.With that in mind, I would hope that all tattooers professional or not are at least heading down a path of acceptable tattooing. Anyway While this is in no way a place to learn about the technical aspects of tattooing. The basics of tattooing have been available to the general public for decades, ie. Milton Zies, Owen Jensen, Percy Waters In the early to mid 1900's, And then With Huck Spaulding in the Late 1900's. The real "Secret is this...... so listen up, WORK HARD, GET TATTOOED BY PEOPLE BETTER THAN YOURSELF. CHEERS!!!
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    Mitch Hedberg was pretty funny . Too bad about the OD
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    I think your treading into questionable territory with that question. Especially since this site is brought to you buy a machine builder. I believe the legacy of the Northeast shader goes back to Sailor Barney. Baba in LA spent a bit of time with him near the end of his life so you might get some info from him. Several years ago one of the tat rags did an article about Sailor Barney right before he passed. I bought one in 93 and used it for several years. I was getting tattooed by Henry Goldfield at the time and he was using one. Much of my own back piece was made with a Northeast Shader assembled and used by Filip Leu. This machine pushed a 21 mag for hours. I've only dabbled in the machine thing so I'm no expert on the mechanics. With that in mind, I say most machines are fairly similar. All the action is in the way the spring works and it takes time to figure out how you like your machines to work. Support Artist/ Builders to find what you like, then emulate. I know the coastal is geometrically different now than it was in the 90's, not sure if they changed the Northeast as well. Don't know if that helps you or not. I say build on as many different frames as you want to.
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    I think your treading into questionable territory with that question. Especially since this site is brought to you buy a machine builder. I believe the legacy of the Northeast shader goes back to Sailor Barney. Baba in LA spent a bit of time with him near the end of his life so you might get some info from him. Several years ago one of the tat rags did an article about Sailor Barney right before he passed. I bought one in 93 and used it for several years. I was getting tattooed by Henry Goldfield at the time and he was using one. Much of my own back piece was made with a Northeast Shader assembled and used by Filip Leu. This machine pushed a 21 mag for hours. I've only dabbled in the machine thing so I'm no expert on the mechanics. With that in mind, I say most machines are fairly similar. All the action is in the way the spring works and it takes time to figure out how you like your machines to work. Support Artist/ Builders to find what you like, then emulate. I know the coastal is geometrically different now than it was in the 90's, not sure if they changed the Northeast as well. Don't know if that helps you or not. I say build on as many different frames as you want to.
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    Now Kat can join the club with tommy lee. They've both had death in their homes. Hollywood is straight up wrong.
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    When Salma and Penelope did that western together.........My wife got sick of my humor after a while.
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    a couple of years ago I was down in Hollywood walking past this old-timey Barber shop Like this. At the time I hadn't cut my hair in 3 months and my beard was down to my chest. I made eye contact with one of the barbers as I was walking. I felt like it was 1969, and I was the forward thinking freak and the barber was thinking get in here and clean up that mess son. I guess he didn't get the memo. That rockabilly thing is so 90's bro. It's all dirtball psychedelic biker now. Oh well. It was a pretty funny nano second.
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    cool stuff!
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    you guessed right! got the shirt yesterday in tha right size. Thanks. Is steadfast doing your printing. I thought it looked good. A lot of times t-shirt prints don't look so hot. Take care - Dean

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    Over the years , Hunter S. has been the subject of most literary tattoo's I've made. However its usually Ralph Steadman's art rather than Hunter's words. I've done a lot of writing, although when I picked up the tattoo machines, my reading really fell off.
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    I saw some of that shit last night. That's the stuff that gives white folks a bad name! Wille,Johnny, Hank1 and 3, Buck, etc people who know , know.
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    I think this is the forum where we don't have to encounter that trend too much. I kind of want to do one really well though and then call it crap. If you like that stuff, get into photography. Also on that wet look, Phuck Photoshop. I live in the middle of nowhere and we've got this whack tattooer that's decided to team up with the local casino in order to bring us a convention featuring the lower end color portrait people. yay.
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    I guess it was a bit of a process to get everything in there. I also improvised a bunch of the composition. Sometimes on those overly detailed larger pieces I'll put a main chunk of the tattoo on , then I'll see how much room I have to play with based on available skin etc. It is always hard to get everything in the customer wants. Even I usually ask the artist for more than is really necessary. Thankfully most of my customers know me or my work and give me a lot of leeway , so i don't get too frustrated. Have a good one! Dean

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    its cool to see all the new tattooers getting into watercolors from the gate, It was practically dead when I started out. Good to see it in full force. Some of these kids blow my mind. I think they were painters first. For me it was the other way around.
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    I don't think people should limit themselves with simple big and black. I ask the client what they really want for a new tattoo. Then I figure out a way to make that happen through lots of lines various colors , and possibly going over the image with white up to three times before I put the new image on. But overall if I never did another cover-up I'd be stoked. I keep telling myself - no more cover-ups. On the other hand, it feels great to eliminate unwanted tattoos for people. I'm close to having a suit and I have no cover-ups. If the tattoo is there it doesn't lie. If people keep covering their work with the trend du jour, the cover-ups don't stop and they end up looking like a confused mess. If you don't like your old work just wait 10-20 years and it'll either be cool or funny. I know there's all kinds of exceptions to this theory, so whatever, there's my 2-cents worth.
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    I need more than one kind
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    Before-light meal and a good shit. After sushi, beer, medicine
  20. Dean Schubert
    for all you tuna lovers ALBA CORE
  21. Dean Schubert
    My spaulding red has been healing since 1994!
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    Here's a set I've done within the last year. An appropriate one for election day. And, if you cross the hands, it says Free Feel. How cool is that!
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    I agree on the money thing. Milking it ain't cool. Haven't had that experience. I've watched it go down though by people who shouldn't have to play that game!
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    look forward to the next installment
  25. Dean Schubert
    From personal experience- Fastest, Filip Leu . Its ok though to be slow I've got some name brand tattoo work that was done slowly. Sometimes its fun to get away from the clock, take your time and have some fun.
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