Just finished the last sitting for my newest tat. Took four different sittings about 10 hours total, I love it the wife hates it, lol. I'm not inked head to toe and this will probably be my last, although I have two more drawn up, just running out of real estate that is easily covered.

anyway here it is.

Nice! I'm long over due for a new tat I like that not my style but def a sweet tat

That is killer right there. I like my Biohazard on my upper arm just gotta figure out what to put around it.

That oughta' scare the hell out of small children

I have one that I would love to forget or have removed!!!

Jeff

I have one that I would love to forget or have removed!!!

Jeff

Find some art you like and have it covered

NICE!!! I like it!

I need to upload my latest one. I'm a big fan of tattoo and body art. I got a few of them actually. Plan to get a bunch more.

Find some art you like and have it covered

If only they could cover it up with skin colored ink! LOL

Jeff

I have nothing against anyone who wishes to wear ink, unless they want me to look at it. I am coming around though. Used to think "look at that jackas", now i don't even look. (or think) I would be very proud to be the only american without a tat.

I have one that I would love to forget or have removed!!!

Jeff

Sounds like you are trying to forget someone you used to love, who is now removed.

I have nothing against anyone who wishes to wear ink, unless they want me to look at it. I am coming around though. Used to think "look at that jackas", now i don't even look. (or think) I would be very proud to be the only american without a tat.

That's not going to happen as long as I'm around. I never understood the tatoo thing.

When I was a kid, back in the 1940s and 50s, the only people I knew with tatoos were sailors, or ex sailors who got them while they were drunk, on liberty in a foreign port.

If only they could cover it up with skin colored ink! LOL

Jeff

Amputate

I think the fad is wearing. It peaked around 2000ish when everybody and their brother was getting them. I see it with mostly younger people now. I got my first one around 1987 and the last one around 1997, and will attest it to the motorcycle lifestyle. I no longer ride. My 21yo son has a couple and my 22yo stepdaughter has one. She went thru the piercing fad and I think she got hers to just get it out of her system.

Sounds like you are trying to forget someone you used to love, who is now removed.

Amputate

I think the fad is wearing. It peaked around 2000ish when everybody and their brother was getting them. I see it with mostly younger people now. I got my first one around 1987 and the last one around 1997, and will attest it to the motorcycle lifestyle. I no longer ride. My 21yo son has a couple and my 22yo stepdaughter has one. She went thru the piercing fad and I think she got hers to just get it out of her system.

It is actually of my old racing number 00 with waving checkered flags and a spark plug...... seemed real cool when I was 18, not so much now!

Jeff

I never got into piercing but love ink and want more I want my wife to get more as well she has a back piece and one on her hip to match my sleeve though I didn't know she was getting when she got it and I kinda don't like it but oh well she did it for me. There is one iv been tossing around lately I want one to kinda relate to my army career and I'm not going with the typical infantry cross rifles every private gets it's to clech. I seen a poster here at mob station I like and want it as a tattoo it's a silhoutte of a soldier in full battle rattle with a shadow of angel wings behind him and the wings are colored to be the flag I think it would look sweet and be meaning full on a few levels.

I only have one right now. I am planning on getting about 10 more. Every one I have planned out means some thing to me. My family couldn't say any thing bad about this one. My other ones I am sure they will. I know they will about one I plan on getting for sure.

Any way this is a Memorial to my dad. I think I spent like 5 hours in the chair. MY buddy saw this and he said I over paid. Yea I don't think I did. I could have gotten it cheaper. But there is no way it would have looked this good. I am still not sure if I am done with it. I was talking to the guy about a other idea with a pin strip design. He said some pin striping around it would look sweet.

That's sweet tipp and you can't over pay for a tatt like that u get what u pay for I got 2 I went cheap on and they look terrible up close to me everyone says they are nice though but I find flaws but still like them. But you get what you pay for with tatts. I have one I could say I over paid for cuz it's just a tribal and I paid 220 for it befor tip($20) but it was from a highly awarded shop and artist in conn.

You guys tip the artist? That's a new one on me.

Yeah I always tip $20 always there was one time I didn't cuz the tat took every dime I had and I went back a week later and gave him $40 that was the guy I always go to now and I give him alot of business so he gives me a discount now and he does awesome awesome work

You guys tip the artist? That's a new one on me.

Back in the day you really didn't...now though...you do. I believe it has something to do with shop owner making that money.Artists only get a portion of that money. So tipping is showing gratitude toward your artist. 20% is the tipping rate for artists right now. Just so people know.

Back in the day you really didn't...now though...you do. I believe it has something to do with shop owner making that money.Artists only get a portion of that money. So tipping is showing gratitude toward your artist. 20% is the tipping rate for artists right now. Just so people know.

The guy I go to is the owner and artist it's just him and his wife and she just does the books and he has a 6month waiting list usually some times if your lucky he can get ya in quick though.

The guy I go to is the owner and artist it's just him and his wife and she just does the books and he has a 6month waiting list usually some times if your lucky he can get ya in quick though.

yeah that's a bit different situation. They are happy with an extra $10-$20.

We have tattoo parties here and the artist doesn't request tips,he only requests he gets at least 8-10 people. Usually it's something small,but it's easy money for him.

Look up Darrel Maniaci on facebook,he's the guy I go to.You can see some of his work he's done.

tiptruck don't think you over paid, if you are happy, I like the idea of tats that have meaning. All of mine have meaning to me, one for my days in the Coast Guard, one for the family and my last is for starting discussions with the biker crowd I hang around with. I got my first tatoo in 1986 when I was 17, was the only person still in high school with a tat, now they are somewhat of a fad. I appreciate the art and the difficulty of doing a first rate tatoo. One artist described it as trying to draw on a rubber ball that keeps moving, lol. Definitely not for everyone.

Clayton and retiredbosn I cant agree with you more on the cost. I have a buddy that pays nothing for tattoos. One is the Confederate flag. The colors have faded so munch that all you see in the black outline. Hes like I need my cousin to touch it up, I am like go to my guy and have him use real ink. He was like that will cost to munch. He then said his cousin used real ink. Must not have been to good of ink. I have never seen a tattoo parlor tattoo fade in less then 3 years. He also has a eagle on his left arm. Its not bad. But if he would have paid for it. It could have been a thousand times better.

You guys tip the artist? That's a new one on me.

I do. I've only got one, and it took but 3 minutes and cost 50 dollars. I figured a 5 dollar tip would suffice.