Rees

Yeah, that’s the idea anyway. Have to do some rework and figure out what he wants spelled out in it and how many blocks it will actually take.

@HoltonFuzz09 wrote:

I was using grapefruit. Have fake skin ordered but it still hasnt arrived yet. And living is such a small town, local grocery store doesnt carry honeydew melons. :(. However, thanks for the input. The first two I did were really “cutting”. Then I figured out to set my needles where they werent visible when the machine was off.…

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I use single mags to shade. double to pack solid color. My opinion…

Sent you a PM, to answer the question, the stove top works great. It will pressurize safely up to 20 pounds. I run it a 20 lbs for 30 minutes. I have the autoclave bags, however I am out of spore test kits. I lucked out and purchased this from a local science teacher that had a surplus for his lab. I’ve been using it about 4 months now.

I happen to have one for sale right now. pm me if your interested.

Not the end all expert, but I posted something awhile back that I had read from Eikon. The 8 wraps are actually more efficient than the 10s. I posted a link to the machine-gun magazine torrent so people could take a look if they wanted. I built three machines with what I learned from that set of magazines, they’re actually for sale right now if…[Read more]

I love it for shading, tryed it for lining once or twice, but I didn’t feel as comfortable that way. It could just be my inexperience with a rotary drive. Took to it naturally for shading though. I was a bit suprised at how low I had to turn my power supply down to get this thing to work properly. If you mistakenly turn this on while your supply…[Read more]

Thank you sir

No guys, my work, he brought it to me after the local shops said they wanted nothing to do with it.

Just bout my new Cheyenne from them. Ordered it at 3 in the afternoon had a UPS tracking number by 4. Not just a generated number, checked and it was already at the distribution center. Great customer service as well!

We have to have a licence here in Texas. It’s nothing but a money grab. Take a 15 minute BBP class and pay your 1000 bucks for a year licence. If you decide to do a show or special event its another 500 per instance of course.

@nytemareh wrote:

I use a big grip. Stretch your wrist and fingers often. See a doctor to make sure it nothing serious.

I had this problem originally when I used 1/2″ grips, since moving to some supersize 1″, I haven’t had the problem. They’re pretty clunky, but I can relax my hand alot more rather than putting a death grip on it like I had to…[Read more]

@canvasyou wrote:

Try to add some depth – not just solid color!
Just a suggestion…
Gradients!
make it more interesting as well as variation in outline depth / width

I agree, fairly solid outline, litte gradiation in the flowers, but the vine is just so packed bright green. It could use some shaded depth and perhaps even some white highlights…[Read more]

@martin_inxx wrote:

Killer Art! I agree with the colours. Whats your Machine setup? i.e. Needles and such.

Back then I had a crappy pair of Superior Raven’s, a liner and a shader. I used a 5rl on the outline, and a 7rs on the color.

@TexasPT wrote:

Rees- somehow I edited your post. sorry about that. :oops:

lol, I was wondering what happened. No problem.

@Jester wrote:

I’ve been looking at that one too.
How do you adjust the stroke length, for lining vs. shading?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you adjust the speed with the voltage right?

A real stigma comes with three different cams that are interchangable for different stroke lengths. Although this one says its a stigma, I emailed the guy and…[Read more]

@ben.catterall wrote:

@Rees wrote:

When I first began tattooing I was taught to use dime for liner, nickel for shader and color. The more I studied and read though, the more I realized that while effective to an extent, there are better ways to go about it. The concept is using the air gap to basically control the speed of the needle for different…

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That’s a cool idea. As usual…the more I look at this one the more things I think I would change in my approach. This is the most frustrating part of learning for me. I haven’t been happy with a tattoo yet.

Maybe its just me, but I can’t seem to enlarge when people post thumbnails. I know with sites like photobucket with direct links, you can get a huge shot of the work.

@TexasPT wrote:

I think spacing is a bit of a struggle in these…but overall the work looks pretty clean.

How do you put the stencil together? The one script I’ve done (because I’m chicken” I used Microsoft word and stenciled straight from the print out so the spacing would be on.

Mark

All I use is MS Word, I’ve downloaded thousands of…[Read more]