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Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

The panther was from the books Eli, Bert & mike were working out of. It had a small nose and super low brow, it's the same piece of flash Bert used on that guys hand opposite the wolf that he recently posted on instagram. After applying the stencil, Mike just smeared the brow, drew on his signature brow, enlarged the eyes and snarled the lip and voila! Instant Mike Wilson panther. It was pretty cool to see him transform the piece on a fly

The panther was from the books Eli, Bert & mike were working out of. It had a small nose and super low brow, it's the same piece of flash Bert used on that guys hand opposite the wolf that he recently posted on instagram. After applying the stencil, Mike just smeared the brow, drew on his signature brow, enlarged the eyes and snarled the lip and voila! Instant Mike Wilson panther. It was pretty cool to see him transform the piece on a fly

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

I feel exactly the same way. I have been part of one free tattoo event and it was invite only to people who are regular customers (who tipped) and people who we actually wanted to hang around with all day, we chose 12 desigs in the lobby and put golden stars by them, if you can find a star you get the tattoo for merely a tip. I made wings, we had pizza delivered and made a party out of it as one of our tattooers was going to New Zealand in a couple of weeks. Everyone made good money, but one guy didn't want to do free tattoos because he just doesn't give deals and he made just as much if not more doing 3 full price tattoos that day and actually had time to hang out. Needles to say the guy is back from New Zealand and I think we will have a party but not do the free tattoos this time.
Here is a picture of one of our regulars Chris posing next to the makeshift sign that day.

ha before i finshed reading this, i was thinking - "sounds like a rassier tattoo'

ha before i finshed reading this, i was thinking - "sounds like a rassier tattoo'

Bring this back to the top- less typey, more showy
The OG:

and from the religious/ spiritual tattoo thread:
Freddy Corbin:

Chris Garver:

Bert Krak:

Tim Hendricks:

Bert Krak flash:

Hey Folks:
I am starting a leg sleeve (s) with Stuart Cripwell. I am getting tattoo about once about every other week and you can see what we have done so far below. For the first few pieces, I just picked stuff I liked and had it tattooed in spots I thought would fit my body well. Now, I still pick out the piece but Stuart outlines the negative space [ex: the empty slot of skin between two tattoos] on tracing paper. He then draws the piece, adding and taking away, so that it fits in the outline.
Best, Dellwood
P.S. I am in the market for good set of kneecap tattoos ideas. I know there is a thread on this but was hoping for some more suggestions taking into consideration negative space, traditional style tattoos. I have been looking at Spider Webb's books of traditional American body suits and the knees are always hard to make out. From what I can see, though, it seems like suns, nautical stars/hexes, spider webs, and elephant heads were pretty common.

I got tattooed by Chris Trevino in 1997, right before I left Austin for SF. He said he had just done a guest spot in SF, so I asked him what the coolest tattoo he did on the trip was. Now, for those of you who are familiar with Pre-100% Japanese Style Chris Trevino, you know that "coolest tattoo" also meant "craziest tattoo." He went on to describe an insane armpit-to-waistline rib piece that involved, among other other things, a jackelope wearing a fez, a waterfall of blood, and a lady with a beehive hairdo making the devil horns with her ring and middle fingers tucked away in her special pocket. I couldn't really get my head around it, but that was the case with many of the tattoos Chris described to me.
Fast forward to 1999, when I finally had enough money to get tattooed by Eddy Deutsche. I went to 222 on my lunch break and booked the appointment with some guy at the counter. We got to talking about my tattoos and I mentioned that I had work from Chris. He said, "Oh yeah, he did my ribs" and lifted up his shirt. It was that piece! And the guy was Jeff Rassier, who is in a league of his own when it comes to putting weird (and awesome) tattoos on people.

I get asked this every few months. When I was doing more walk-in type tattoos I got asked every other day, at least.
My answer was always: "Most tattoos are pretty weird. It's weird to get tattoos animals you've never had direct experience with or that don't exist onto your body. It's odd to get a tattoo of a prostitute or stripper, or a mode of transportation, or a word out of context, or a reproduction of someone you never met, etc. Mostly tattooing, by it's nature is weird. But the weirdest tattoo I've done is a grocery shopping list on a guys forearm, in neat handwriting, from wrist to ditch."
That's weirder than the eyelids, heads, assholes, palms, satanic shit, sexual stuff, dolphin penis guy etc.
So that's my answer.
I work with Miles, who used to work at IntoYou in London back when tattoos were for weirdos and freaks. Some of that shit blows my mind. Maybe I'll ask him for permission to share his stories. On the other hand, maybe some of tattooing's folk tales need to stay off the internet and remain an oral tradition.

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

The panther was from the books Eli, Bert & mike were working out of. It had a small nose and super low brow, it's the same piece of flash Bert used on that guys hand opposite the wolf that he recently posted on instagram. After applying the stencil, Mike just smeared the brow, drew on his signature brow, enlarged the eyes and snarled the lip and voila! Instant Mike Wilson panther. It was pretty cool to see him transform the piece on a fly

The panther was from the books Eli, Bert & mike were working out of. It had a small nose and super low brow, it's the same piece of flash Bert used on that guys hand opposite the wolf that he recently posted on instagram. After applying the stencil, Mike just smeared the brow, drew on his signature brow, enlarged the eyes and snarled the lip and voila! Instant Mike Wilson panther. It was pretty cool to see him transform the piece on a fly

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

The panther was from the books Eli, Bert & mike were working out of. It had a small nose and super low brow, it's the same piece of flash Bert used on that guys hand opposite the wolf that he recently posted on instagram. After applying the stencil, Mike just smeared the brow, drew on his signature brow, enlarged the eyes and snarled the lip and voila! Instant Mike Wilson panther. It was pretty cool to see him transform the piece on a fly

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month.
Mike Wilson

Bert Krak

Eli Quinters

Eli Quinters