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Hello,

I love this new format, its gonna be alot of fun! Well here goes. In 05 my wife and i went to the motor city tattoo convention and met Guy and Michelle, she gave Sarah two mandalas on her shoulders and told us we should come to her studio and finish a chest piece. A year later we went to southern illinois where the shop is located. We greeted Guy and Michelle at a diner and headed to the studio from there.  Once there Michelle let us know we would have company. We would be joined by Guy, Mike Cole and Carson Hill. They were collaborating on carsons sleve. Stenciling was first it took some time to place the stencils perfect. After that Sarah started to get inked! Mike and Guy spent hours stenciling Carson and began the tattoo the same night. Both crews worked late into the night Sarah was finished that day with9  hours under the needle!! We got back at the hotel around 11:30p. The next day more of the same, 5 hours for sarah and who knows how many days for Carson. After we were done we had planned to attend th St. Louis Old School tattoo convention. There we got to show off our New School treasures!

(8 votes, average: 4.88 out of 5)

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So working in a tattoo shop seems to be the place to stick your foot in your mouth, more than anywhere Ive ever been.

When I was apprenticing in ‘99, a co-worker of mine who was also an apprentice was making a line drawing for some old english writing that said, “Made in the USA.”  I walk up and jokingly said, “Oh no fair! You get to do that?!”  He replied, “Why you wanna do it?”  without realizing the kid was about 6 feet away, I said, “Fuck no!  I hate that crap!”  He then whispered, “Dude, he’s right there.”  I kinda snuck around him feeling bad, and realized I should be more careful around the shop so this wont happen again(which is impossible)

I decided to go to lunch, and as I passed them in the middle of the tattoo session, I decide to redeem myself by walking over and saying, “Looks good!  Thats pretty cool man!”  Then returning from lunch, I swear to this day I saw the kid walk out the door.  So once again, I start going off, “What a dumb thing to get!” “Did he lose a bet!?” “Hes gonna be so bummed” etc etc.  Then I get nudged again by my co-worker, “DUDE, Hes right there!”  I look up, and homeboy is staring right at me.  I kinda walk into a back corner of the shop unexposed to the front, and wait until the kids friends pick him up.  I was working a second job from 6pm-2am at the time, and ended up an hour late to my other job cause I didnt want to walk of shame past them all.

10 years later, I still cant seem to keep my foot out of my mouth.

(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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I was tattooing this girl, nice girl wonderful smile looking to get tattooed on her shoulder blade so I start working la de da de da just trucking along when I feel her get cold and clammy and just as I notice… slam her head drops now I have her sitting in a metal folding chair backwards -straddling the chair ya know- she passes out I grab her as quick as I can, this all happened in like seconds I pulled her up by her shoulders like a dead fish totally limp and bleeding from her mouth when she dropped her teeth smashed into the back of the chair when she came to all her top teeth were loose just kinda hanging there dangling I was freaking out trying to help her out all she wanted from me was to finish as quick as I could so she could goto the hospital I never saw her again nor have I ever use a metal chair to have them sit backwards in

(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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who have been posting, and helping us get this site off the ground.  Lets spread the word, so we have plenty of new stories to read everyday.  Thanks again, -Vic Back

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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… well the title said it all.

http://best-tattoo-sites.com/blogs-forums.htm

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ok so I wanna know why there isn’t like 30,000 stories here yet? we all got a million… everyday I walk away from work with at least one good story… so let me start with an oldie 

Back in the early 90’s I was working on st. marks in new york and I had these sweet looking girls come in the shop, four early 20’s hotties from north carolina real wholesome cornfed knockouts real small town girls who came to new york for a girls gone wild weekend adventure. We used to get a lot of that in that shop good girls from out of town looking to put a few skelton’s  in there closet, and hell I was always open to be That Guy! one of the first things on most of these girls gone wild weekends was to get a tattoo and the cherry on top of that was to fuck the tattooist!  I guess cause it always worked out that way… well enough back story so these girls come into the shop it’s late friday night and were looking to close but these chicks are way to hot to ask to leave  me and my friend who was working the front were the only one’s still in the shop the all pick out what they want and I get to work all the tattoo’s are little bread and butter kanji’s ect. so the last girl to go is so smoking and kinda the ringleader blond with huge sweatermeat but when it get to be her turn she get all shy and is telling me she wants to put her kanji for love on her bikini line but is way to shy to pull her pants down this goes on for like almost half an hour now all the other tattoos were on wrist ankle shoulder ect. and her friends are cheering her on by now but she tells me she not that type of girl she is very involed in church and blaa blaa blaa so I’m getting pissed finally I turn and tell her “Ok baby this is the deal you take off your pants and everyone in the shop will strip down to there underwear I’ll do the tattoo in my underwear!” only kidding  but as I turned around her friends are all stripping off there shit… I turned beat red looked at my boy rich and said somedays you gotta work harder then others huh? strip off my shit now everyone is standing in my room in there underwear just kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop I sat down and tattooed this chick half way through I see my boy take one of the girls off to another room… we sat talking about porno movies and what really turned them on during sex..I spent the next three days with that blond in my apt. she never got to see new york city beyond the walk back to my apt.

(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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A guy walks into our shop and starts to look through some of our books, At the time I was getting a stencil ready for a apptment. So the guy comes up to me with one of the books in his hand and asks “Yo dude how much to tattoo a hair line”. At first I thought the guy was joking untill he takes off his beanie and then I know that he meant what he just said.

(5 votes, average: 4.80 out of 5)

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At the 2008 Oldschool tattoo expo, Dave Sanchez, Megan Hoogland, her lovely bf, and Jessica(snakeface books) were at breakfast at a place I highly recommend called ‘crepes in the city.’  It was a little cold that day, and Id forgotten my jacket.  When we left the place, Jessica made a comment about being cold, and I jokingly said, “Man up Pussy!”  And old lady happened to be passing us, just as I said this.  She look llike Tony Sopranos Mom.  She looked at me disgusted and said, “SHAME!  Shame is the word for you!”  We all stopped in confusion, and I busted up laughing.  As she got down the street a little ways, she turned and yelled, “Leave the city NOW!!”  

Id forgotten my banner this trip, so when we returned to the show, I made a banner on an 8 x 10 piece of paper of a finger pointing at me, telling me Shame and to leave the city.  If youre reading this Mrs. Soprano, thanks for the inspiration behind my new favorite banner, and the new inside jokes.

(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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I think it’s so funny when i get a client who says it’s already numb.. .   they never go numb!!!!!!! ink doesn’t numb the skin!!!! nor does a several hour session. tattoos hurt & thats the bottom line. some people have a tolerance for tattoos, some don’t.. . but nobody unless you’re paralized you’re gonna feel the needle through out the tattoo.. . it may get tolerable, but never will it go numb!!!!!

(2 votes, average: 2.50 out of 5)

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Glad to be a part of The Rinse Cup. Looking forward to the stories and seeing some really kick ass art. Thanks much for the invite