Who Uses What? Stencils, Inks And Machines

Who uses what? Right now I have been using my 3 machines from American Atti2udes Studio 29 here in Clermont Florida. These things just lay the ink in and tune up very easy. I also have a Paco liner, Micky Sharpz shader and a cheap $40 Chinese liner which i have replaced a few parts on, lines go right in with it. I have always loved and still use Starbrite Inks and Kuro Sumi. I have a couple of Intense colors also. For stencils, unless it is a small piece I will go with the machine. I have an older thermal fax machine I use which produces a great crisp, clean stencil. I do have to mirror the image in photoshop which I don't mind doing at all. For applying stencils, I make my own. I have tried Stencil Stuff and others, Mine seems to last and stay on longer. I mainly use Kingpin needles, I do have some Element needles. I use both disposable and metal grips. The fatter the better for me. Hope to hear from everybody.

I might have put this in the wrong section.

I'm just a gear head with both tattooing equipment and musical instruments.

Have a RW mk2, tales drawing ink to tattoo with, some skin pens for making stencils and a freezer full of pig skin

Btw what is up with that foot switch eliminator light switch thing American Atti2udes Studio 29 is selling? That thing's just crazy

I'm not sure. I do like his clip cords though. I just think the guy makes some good stuff for a great price.

I use stencil stuff for my stencils. Have used it for about 2 years now. Going on 3. I use a Cheyenne hawk thunder for lining and packing. I use my halo 2 from fk irons with the 2.6mm cam for black and grey and some blending. I use a critical cx1 g2 power supply. Big wasp rca jack. I had my thunder switched to an rca jack. Took the circut board so it doesnt shut down at any volt. I use dynamic black for lining and black work. I use inksanity grey wash pre mixed kit for grey wash. Awesome stuff. Goes in and stays the same tone almost when it heals. I use intenze and starbrite for color tattoos. I use peak blood cartridges

I've got a couple superior wasps that I love...just old school feel. I have a factory house irons shader, a kylin shader I turned into a liner, a couple liners I've built. I'm using hurricane power supplies right now, i've got a custom clip cord I bought from nightengale supply, and currently I'm using spirit paper w/ stencil stuff. I still hand draw my stencils. Inks I use solid, intenze, eternal, and bloodline...Depends on the color.

My workhorse is a Welker rotary although i have a bunch of clones (Halo, two dragonflys and 2 bishops) critical ps and eternal round foot pedal, if i'm tattooing something that only requires one needle configuration the i use welker needles with mithra disposable tubes, otherwise i use an RPG click grip from FK irons with EZ and Elite carts, inks i use mostly starbrite colours with some eternal colours too and dynamic black

Nice stuff man, I just recently tried a rotary, one of my clients bought 2 and he brought them over for me to try on him. Maybe because they were cheap Chinese ones but I struggled a little with it and put it down and used my coil machines.

i have a few machines, pen, rotary and coil, all of which i have stripped, rebuilt, modified, all except a MS dial liner and the pen, im currently using new image inks mostly and my own stencil mixture which stays on until you cut the skin off (still learning so practically no real skin work yet, just a couple, and my own arms)
I use an old 24 pin dot matrix to print my stencils and get nice sharp clean stencils on standard and the dual layer stencil papers.
And no longer use piggy, im on cheapo rubber skin as it makes you work harder and be more aware of what you are doing. (if you overwork it shows really well, so helps to avoid that too)