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I am about to have my entire outer arm blacked out. The inside will be black and grey Zdzislaw Beksinski renderings, one of which I already have, and the outside will be small flowers from a Stephen Kasner art book going up my arm in red and white gone over the black when it is healed. A friend from another shop is doing it and funny enough he will be blacking out some of his old work.

Hello to everyone,

I agree with James lots of positive and constructive things going on here. I to have only tattooing for a short time. A lot of people I admire on here and I am glad to be involved with the trade. My name is Nathan, by the way.

Keep it clean. Wash it with your hand, and use aquaphor. Works every time for me

Bunny is ridiculous, he did a HUGE piece on my buddy Corey's side after only tattooing like 4 years or something and it was pretty fucking insane. Definitely super talented and very low profile.

Yeah, he did the outline on my friend (back and ass) in about three and a half hours. The piece is of rats surrounding a fighting skeleton, wind bars and fire. Hopefully I am going to have him do a piece on the back of my thigh, but he is booked like three or four weeks in advance and I don't drive. But yeah, he is pretty bad ass. cool link by the way, I like the scissor tattoo and the art nouveau looking lady with the bleeding throat.

nate

Wow this is a really awesome post, thread or whatever you call it. My friend Ethan is having his back piece by this guy named Bunny in Norton Ohio at a shop called Rising Tide. This kid has skills. He does mostly large scale work on his clients but is willing to do most types of traditional, neo-traditional Japanese and American styles of any size. Really wild color schemes and just clean work. Also adding to the mix of lesser known from Ohio, Dave Wulf of tattoo faction. And the guy who is currently doing my back piece Karl Berringer of 252 tattoo in Cleveland Ohio. 252 is a really solid shop and I believe it to be some what heard of outside of our state. Anyway check these guys out via shop websites.

I will definitely be reordering some Japanese red and orange, have not tried the pink but I will throw it in the mix next time I order. And thanks for hooking up the orders with all the extras. I just finished a chest piece using some one off bottles I got when I ordered other stuff. Oh... and I like the dark black so much I had my long time friend, whom I am showing the ropes so to speak; tattoo the Waverly bars on my leg to fill in some space. I am down for life or something like that. I throw up some pics when they are healed

At the shop I work at, the music we listen to is played for the shop as a whole. And it is probably some of the worst music imaginable. Repetitive commercial garbage. It is a ghetto shop in crappy ole' Cleveland Ohio, home of the cheap and ugly. Sometimes when I have my friends come in and work on them late, when everyone has left I can squeeze in some gism , comes, iggy and the stooges, or some old timey Appalachia type music. That I s what I would prefer to listen too. Rather then having to hear bad rap and r&b of the 21st century; while hearing the words "bitch" and the ever important ''N'' word that is in every song. But it is the inner city and as a young tattooer learning the trade, what better place to learn lettering, script and how to talk someone out of getting their "boos" name tattooed on their neck. Sorry I am bitter