Dusty

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Man times have changed hahah people will probably start getting there Facebook links or something stupid.

I wanna make it out to smith st, one thing you don't have to worry about when going to that shop is getting a bad tattoo. Solid dudes doing solid work.

Two quick clarifications hahah, I had went by InkHouse due to hearing they were closing, not exactly sure the reasoning nor is it my business (just incase I'm asked) and everything was taken off the walls and stuff kinda weird just because they had been in the area so long.

The other is to huero, don't take the "quoting" of your post that I'm being ignorant I just thought it was a general thread about the style. I know that these forums can get heated over the smallest things hahah

Ink House is no more by the way.. Unfortunant closing after a fairly long time..

Scrappy doesn't do single needle tattoos.

There are lots of newer tattooers carrying on what the aforementioned tattooers started.

Pint and chuey q, Placaso, drew flores, Jose l, jun cha, ruger, chente, chuco, andrew farnsley, Tattoo tony, Mexican tattoo family, Steve soto, tattoo Louie, big Gus, el bros Mendoza, Antonio m, kiki platas, Dave Sanchez, even kat von d.

Grillo and Hendricks do it good too but they aren't married to it.

The thing with these tattoos is it can look good even when it's bad. The tradition is that it's handpoked or done with homemade machines, so even when you see people with rough looking stuff, it still looks great.

You don't find a lot of people outside of southern California that do it right, and while it's a style most associated with inner city Los Angeles, the people that do it the best are in orange county, riverside, inland empire, etc.

There are some shops that specialize in this stuff, under the gun, tattooland, oc ink house, Por vida, lowrider, rubes, shamrock, the Slauson swap meet ha ha.

But these are just tattooers known by the general public or people who know about tats. Every hood in califas has a few local people working out of their house or in small little shops or swap meet spots that get it in.

I thought this thread was in regard to the style, imagery, and partly application. Not to strictly single needle tattooing..

Check out: scrappy uno.. dude has some real nice looking fine line..

Got and gave some good ol fashion stick and pokes when some friends and I were younger, the only up side was we had our hands on some talons. Hey some of them look like if hooper went to prison hahah just less accurate.

Pinch the spot real good, if it hurts the tattoo will probably hurt. Hahah as for me the only thing that sucked bad was my ribs, my second tattoo that I got and done by a inexperienced person.. Let's just say the bones probably got some dots on em now hahhah.. My shins didn't bother me, nor did my chest untill each spot was on the last few passes. Second to my ribs had to be that bump under your knee.. Color packed in right there was no fun.

Jose Lopez, Klown, Abey, Placaso.. I few off the top of my head that hadn't been mentioned yet..

"getting blasted", "blast me up", ink, inked, anyone who spells school with a k (skool), I'm sure there's more just need to have them said hahah.

This thread made it over a year before getting to off topic, that's pretty rad.

My name is Dusty, Livin in Orange County CA. Joined the forum because I think it's Awesome that scott's trying to give back some history through the interviews, and hopefully help turn the industry back to the tattoo community and away from the media and suppliers who have nothing to do with the industry. Also he's a awesome artist himself.