Tattoos - Thoughts & Pics

[Joe13]

Also I guess I never posted the tail with some filler he did a couple months ago - I'm loving how it's all coming together.

You can only see an inch or two on the back of my hands with a long sleeve dress shirt or nine at all with the long sleeve shirts I normally wear.

 

[Rickenbacher39]

At the beginning of my career I worked in a hospital that had a lot of merchant marines as patients.
You wanted to see tattoos?........which I didn't........you saw tattoos.
So, to alleviate the visual impact of all these random "art works" we invented a game.
Most of these guys were a bit older and weathered so we would try to guess what the tattoo
was suppose to be when it was originally done. We got some really unusual guesses.
Then we would "short straw it" and that guy would ask what the tattoo was.
Good times.....good times.

 

[OldTengu]

I am pretty heavily tattooed. I do have a couple of favorites, with good stories. One, my Pachuco wizard, came about because of another tattoo.
A friend drew up some flash art for a Halloween flash sheet at their shop, one of which was a chola witch, and she was sad that no one got it. I figured, I had the space, what the hell. After, we decided she needed a mate.

I have many more detailed and intricate tattoos, but this is a favorite because one of my good friends did it.

 

[Member 53328]

I have over 30k into Tattoos......

 

[Kruel J]

I have over 30k into Tattoos......

Nice

 

[Member 53328]

I wanna do my neck and hands so bad but my wife would murder me.

 

[OldTengu]

My next will be the Gadsden snake on each palm. Waiting for my vacation in August, will need a week for that to heal up.

 

[Joe13]

I am pretty heavily tattooed. I do have a couple of favorites, with good stories. One, my Pachuco wizard, came about because of another tattoo.
A friend drew up some flash art for a Halloween flash sheet at their shop, one of which was a chola witch, and she was sad that no one got it. I figured, I had the space, what the hell. After, we decided she needed a mate.
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I have many more detailed and intricate tattoos, but this is a favorite because one of my good friends did it.

One of my longtime friends has done everything I have but my wedding ring I got on our 10th anniversary. It is pretty awesome to me to have just one guy do all my work.

I waited till he was winning awards at conventions though lol. I let him practice on all our other friends first

 

[Joe13]

My next will be the Gadsden snake on each palm. Waiting for my vacation in August, will need a week for that to heal up.

the new wraps they have invented for burn victims is AMAZING. My last one healed almost completely in 5 days. Only had to oil it occasionally for a few days after that.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I like tattoo art...but have none yet...
Nothing in the way of a design "speaks" to me yet.

When I was in the Army we were discouraged ( Behooved was the term used ) to not get a tattoo...
Lots of guys did anyway.
I always wanted one that related to my MOS / Position...but being in many LRRP / LRSD units and having a chance of being captured...thought it best not to get one and provide any intelligence to a enemy.
Andy

 

[3MTA3]

I like tattoos on other people. Me? No. Cold war kid - I never wanted any identifying marks.

 

[Joe13]

I have over 30k into Tattoos......

My first full sleeve/chest plate has about 70 hours+ into it and my other sleeve/chest piece is getting close.

Then we start on my upper back to connect them. So I'm guessing I'll be into it 200 hours at $150/hr - I wouldn't be able to afford it unless I was getting a great hookup.

 

[wired]

My next tattoo will be the RAF MP5 star on the left arm. It'll match the hammer and sickle on the right arm just fine.

Red is my favorite color .

 

[Kruel J]

Go on.... put your head in there. You'll change your definition of nut-cracker....

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That's a nice start you got there.

 

[Stomper]

That's a nice start you got there.


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Less is more, Duane Johnson...

 

[Kruel J]

Less is more, Duane Johnson...

LOL! Just messing with you man!

 

[Stomper]

LOL! Just messing with you man!

Saul Goodman!!

 

[Joe13]

Want to support a local business and maybe get a great tattoo for almost nothing???



My tattoo friend is running 'Waffles' (raffles) for ink when they are back up and running.

Everyday Friday at Noon he posts On Facebook and you have to comment with the numbers you want - they go super fast though so you gotta be on it.

$10 per number using a digital payment due before the drawing at 8pm.

He has done 50 spots for $500 worth of ink and 100 spots for $750. Not sure what he has planned for future drawings...


All proceeds go to his overhead on the shop and not his personal family expenses.

Great way to get an awesome tattoo for pennies and goes to helping keep the shop going while we are locked down.

Look up Geeksterink - Jerry Patton Jr on Facebook

This guy does all my work and it is award winning or I wouldn't recommend him

 

[Kruel J]

I don't have FB.

 

[Joe13]

I don't have FB.

I only have it for stuff like this. I don't have anyone on it as a friend etc