Post Number One.

A friend of mine opened my eyes to the idea that a tattoo artist being ignorant to his/her machine workings is as dysfunctional as an artist who doesn't understand why a pencil works the way it does.  Even if it's manipulated in a way that produces a satisfactory product, it takes a firm understanding of the tools used to be able to recreate the desired effect.

I plan to keep this blog as a place to talk about my dabbling and tinkering in a small workshop that is in its very infantile stages.  I'll work with what I've got now, and as the needs arise, expand it to accomodate new skills I've learned.

What I'll be documenting first is removing chrome from an old Spaulding Liteweight frame that I bought as a kit.  This would be the first machine I ever learned to set up, with the help a friend who had been doing his own experiments with tattooing before I was even born.

I hope that someone, or anyone, finds this blog interesting.  It may be technical and it may be boring, I'm not sure, but one thing I do know is that there is a lot of shit I don't know, and I plan on figuring it out.