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@Spider wrote:

I gotta say, bagging or not bagging, it is a good question. Sometimes I do sometimes I don’t. And I am not the only one. If you image search you will see that even the best of the best sometimes do and sometimes don’t, clip cord bag is ALWAYS on but bagged machine is not. IMO the difference being that it just gives you a little extra…

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that’s actually very too experience to have :3
saves on a lot of cash
I use the magnetic base that comes with the HP-2, and it is pretty much impossible to knock off
it takes quite a lot of effort for me to take it off when I need to clean my station haha
i could hit it and it wouldnt budge :3

where are you located?

missing a few parts on that friend. A simple lid, even one that may twist on, is not going to get that thing to the pressure that is needed to be an effective unit. Two things are needed to sterilize, heat of no less than 121 celcius and pressure of no less than 12psi…the highest i have ever personally seen an autoclave run was 132 celcius and…[Read more]

The gov needs to get more OUT of the tattooing industry! Not more into it. My stance is that yep, stupid untrained people will cause infections, spread stuff and so on. However they never last long, the people screwing others up, and as far as spreading anything, walking around in public these days can do that to you really. Who’s to say that the…[Read more]

Now see I can respect the digital power supplies, but I would never change out my dials, reason being I had one digital power supply, it got knocked off my station and busted, stopped working and like a dummy i didn’t have a back-up. The dials I can fix because that was part of my mentoring, learn to fix your own stuff. And while I now have 3…[Read more]

wb, I’m looking for a competent artist to fill an empty booth in my shop if you know any!..lol.

I gotta say, bagging or not bagging, it is a good question. Sometimes I do sometimes I don’t. And I am not the only one. If you image search you will see that even the best of the best sometimes do and sometimes don’t, clip cord bag is ALWAYS on but bagged machine is not. IMO the difference being that it just gives you a little extra to clean…[Read more]

@robroy289 wrote:

@Nightliner wrote:

I get a lot of sh*t from some people when I tell them I don’t bag my machines, but IMO, bagging the machines just contaminates them more, and I clean them after evey tattoo anyway so what’s the point? 80% of the shops I’ve been in don’t, and most of the tattoo shows don’t either. I do however bag the clip cord…

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I have a hurricane, and have been using it for over a year without any faults at all.
I love it, and would never go back. I can have three liner and three shader presets, and it has a stop watch and stuff. I wrote a review for it at http://www.tattooradar.com :3

If I have a cut or something I wont tattoo. I don’t wear a mask, and ive never seen anyone wear one. I’m nto saying its right, or wrong to wear one I’ve just never seen anyone do it. As far as my inks I have a toolbox on the left of my chair that opens up like one of those tool things that mechanics use with shelves like ti as well. It’s not like…[Read more]

yeah some people just get side tracked or really busy or just life happens :D
keep checking in
i havent been on much in the last like 6 or 7 months for some life stuff
but i used to check the forum twice a day or so :3

yeah ill fix that. its supposed to be 12 1 2 haha

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Fixed

Could have been a number of things, not enough stretching of the skin, speed too low for the needle you were using, tube too tight around the needle tip no ink flowing, not enough ink to flow from the tube, trying to be too light in the hand… The biggest thing I have seen from new peeps is stretching, Not you standing up to relax your joints…[Read more]

I can’t load the image here, but if you goto http://www.darkcarnivalink.com, goto artists, then Spider’s portfolio, on there is a Koi cover up. The Koi was done over a very dark black panther with oranges, reds and yellows. It was a successful cover up because I changed the original design so that the darkest of the black areas actually became the…[Read more]

Any cover up is a whole lot of talent, especially when it comes to color over black. A good artist will try to match the existing lines to the new one as best as possible and have a good working knowledge of color theory and how colors will blend over the years. there is alot of experiance as well, but talent and skill is primary IMO..

Yeah that seems to be the order of the day, what really gets me though is that there are so many “artists” out there that are satisfyied working from a kitchen, or spare bedroom or what have you. The whole reasoning, “why should I pay a shop I do just fine charging only $20 and I get lots of work!”, ah well, best of luck…lol…this is a career…[Read more]

there are basically 3 types of wraps:
8
10
12
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8 wrap coils are by far the cheapest, they are smaller, the heat dissapates less making them run hotter and are generally run at a lower voltage due to them using smaller needles.
10 wrap coils are kinda the middle norm, they work well for a variety of jobs and uses and can be run at moderate…[Read more]

It is very hard to see but from what I do see, I would say get off faces for some time and work on some stuff. The placement with the body style you choose is not going to look good later on. a better placement would have been higher on the ribs where a person is less likely to gain some pounds and make the body of the chick spread. Her face is…[Read more]

ALPwk4a3.JPGBelieve it or not a good graphics program and a pen tablet as so many numerous advantages when starting to design a tattoo. I have used them for years and even now still prefer them over paper or even paint. This was done using adobe photoshop and charcoal brushes with a pen tablet. I now use a tablet to help with getting outlines and…[Read more]