SHRED247

Hey everyone! I just wanted to Introduce myself.
My name is jim and have been lurking this site for quite a while. I love the artist interviews!
Here are some of my tattoos. i have others that are not shown that will be getting lasered to make room for more Japanese work. Obviously my ribs are still In progress.  Should be 2-3 more sessions.

I would agree that Martin Lacasse is absolutely killer at everything he does. A real tattooers tattoo and criminally underrated in either traditional or Japanese. Pretty much everyone in that shop (Jay Goldberg, Gus, Johnny Gues, Scott Smith, etc) would knock out a traditional piece like that. Check out @oldecitytattoo on IG. They don't post a ton, but you can follow to each artist and check em out.
Topper at Eddies does great work, as mentioned.
I love most of what Pat Haney does. He's a little slicker than what you may be looking for, but I'm sure you can't go wrong with him. He's also opened up a new shop that's a little farther from where you're mentioning, but nothing crazy.
Dave Fox is out in the suburbs now. His name isn't the first that comes to mind for this style, but traditional stuff is really underrated. He doesn't put a lot of it out there, but it's solid.
Aaron Francione seems fine (I'm not too familiar with him), but I'm just not much of a fan of a lot of what Seven Swords is doing. Although I did recently see a Carlos Perez lady head that I liked.
 

Other than Pat Haney... First peoples that comes to mind, Topper from Philadelphia Eddies, and Lacasse Olde City Tattoo.

Welcome.

Hey everyone! I just wanted to Introduce myself.
My name is jim and have been lurking this site for quite a while. I love the artist interviews!
Here are some of my tattoos. i have others that are not shown that will be getting lasered to make room for more Japanese work. Obviously my ribs are still In progress.  Should be 2-3 more sessions.

Hey everyone! I just wanted to Introduce myself.
My name is jim and have been lurking this site for quite a while. I love the artist interviews!
Here are some of my tattoos. i have others that are not shown that will be getting lasered to make room for more Japanese work. Obviously my ribs are still In progress.  Should be 2-3 more sessions.

Hey everyone! I just wanted to Introduce myself.
My name is jim and have been lurking this site for quite a while. I love the artist interviews!
Here are some of my tattoos. i have others that are not shown that will be getting lasered to make room for more Japanese work. Obviously my ribs are still In progress.  Should be 2-3 more sessions.

Welcome. I'm from outside Philly, and it's good to have some other people from the area on here. 

I'm brand new myself, but welcome!

Great work!!!  Welcome to the forum!

Welcome and thanks for joining!
Nice work, who's the artist?

Hey everyone! I just wanted to Introduce myself.
My name is jim and have been lurking this site for quite a while. I love the artist interviews!
Here are some of my tattoos. i have others that are not shown that will be getting lasered to make room for more Japanese work. Obviously my ribs are still In progress.  Should be 2-3 more sessions.

Hey everyone! I just wanted to Introduce myself.
My name is jim and have been lurking this site for quite a while. I love the artist interviews!
Here are some of my tattoos. i have others that are not shown that will be getting lasered to make room for more Japanese work. Obviously my ribs are still In progress.  Should be 2-3 more sessions.

Hey everyone! I just wanted to Introduce myself.
My name is jim and have been lurking this site for quite a while. I love the artist interviews!
Here are some of my tattoos. i have others that are not shown that will be getting lasered to make room for more Japanese work. Obviously my ribs are still In progress.  Should be 2-3 more sessions.

Hey everyone! I just wanted to Introduce myself.
My name is jim and have been lurking this site for quite a while. I love the artist interviews!
Here are some of my tattoos. i have others that are not shown that will be getting lasered to make room for more Japanese work. Obviously my ribs are still In progress.  Should be 2-3 more sessions.