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I have a feeling that we have met the most recent re-invention of Bruce Cove/Andre Murray/Master Zao

It's going from bad to worse rapidly.

if it looks like piss, smells like piss and tastes like piss it probably is indeed piss.

^!!!! whoa!! Thanks for that link, perpetrators are exposed!!

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Bringing food and or sweets to the shop is one of the best random surprises you can do for us/your tattooer/local shop. That always makes our day. Funny that this got brought up today; I did that today for the guys at the shop working on my truck. Just showed up with 3 pizzas and got some high-fives and split. A random 'thanks' and show of appreciation for people doing you a service goes a long way.

I have to say that this was a great response and I second your new thread idea. Thanks for making me laugh.

^WHOA plagerists!! Damn I want answers too now. Is that an actual structured sentence? I mean I'm not an English major but it sounds a bit odd. Furthermore, however, consequently, I am curious as to what makes these folks 'pioneers of biomech design and applicators'. Edit; I just examined more of this site because it's very baffling and vague about who actually tattoos there. So I decided to click on various links under the 'menu' and found that they are posting Mosher's drawings from his books right there online as their 'traditional Japanese tattoo designs'. SUPER FUCKED UP AND NOT OK AT ALL. @Victor I would distance myself from these folks and not post anything else from that site. If you are involved with that shop than I would step back and see that this shop is doing one of the most taboo things to do.

Does trash polka mean 'tattoos that aren't tattoos'? or just 'tattoos that look like shit'? If someone asked me for a trash polka tattoo that 'would get the wtf are you talking about' look. Please don't get something like that @scubaron and if you realllllly have to do it just bring in a reference to the shop, don't use that bizarre term. That must be a euro thing.

Thank you.

I was in the middle of a really long reply and just said 'fuck it someone else will handle it'. Thanks gouge.

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Yeah I don't see anything to adjust tension; rubber bands, wheel or otherwise. In fact there's so little bar exposed that all you can do is put them all the way in the back seat thus being rather ineffective.

@Sarah Wood I think what can work is doing minimal red bursts/splashes behind the tattoo in certain key spots. It will add color and some oomph without putting red on top of the current grey wash, which will probably look muddy and brownish afterwards or shortly down the line.

It's basically laboratory grade dirt; no, ink companies won't tell you what's in it if you can even get them on the phone; and as far as cadmium poisoning, not gonna happen don't worry. You will not get poisoned from a tattoo.

It's possible but it could wind up muddy and brownish

"I want a tree, to me that represents life" very rarely translates to a tree that looks alive and full of foliage. Everyone wants the dead tree and never recognizes the oxymoron

You're welcome homie! And yeah the text closely follows the lectures Gonna bite your steez on the dowel

Kudos on the die tattoo! ... Try taking a picture of behind your own ear. I think I spent 20 minutes trying that one.

I'm gonna start telling clients to bring a roll of paper towels, a razor and some tape. BYOS

Has anyone used this on a ditch or behind the knee or some such area yet? I'm not asking to be argumentative I'm genuinely interested.

Dungeons & Dragons thread to the rescue.

Yeah yours worked out well even if the red wasn't carried over to the roses, the weight throughout the tattoo is evenly balanced. I think the toughest red/black cobra ever tattooed is the Grime front torso one (no disrespect towards yours it looks awesome) but admittedly also has a tiny splash of gold. It still could've worked just as well if that had been red.