Tattoo

[BlasterBob]

My 1/2 sleeve is older than some of you guys posting here (got it in 1985)
I still remember the first time the needle hit my armpit. It didn't tickle

Joe, I got my first one just 30 years before you, 1955 in Fort Riley, KS (actually Junction City, KS). Maybe you were still in diapers or at least training pants way back that long ago... Back in those days, the artist would wipe your arm with a big old sponge soaked in nasty looking water from a porcelain basin - the same bloody water just used on the guy before you. Don't really want to do that now days. I'll have to get a picture of the last one that I had done at age 72. Hey it's never too late and I do not have to be concerned about some dip shit (is that one word or two?) employer being critical of my ink.

[Great-Kazoo]

Joe, I got my first one just 30 years before you, 1955 in Fort Riley, KS (actually Junction City, KS). Maybe you were still in diapers or at least training pants way back that long ago... Back in those days, the artist would wipe your arm with a big old sponge soaked in nasty looking water from a porcelain basin - the same bloody water just used on the guy before you. Don't really want to do that now days. I'll have to get a picture of the last one that I had done at age 72. Hey it's never too late and I do not have to be concerned about some dip shit (is that one word or two?) employer being critical of my ink.

the old sponge and bucket era. my early ones were done that way. the artist had the tubes and needles laid out in a rack soaking in some form of lysol disinfectant (if any at all) shaved your body part with a straight razor and used a sponge or paper towel to wipe the area.

[Great-Kazoo]

In Jr high (1978) I cut my initials in my leg and rubbed ash into it, can I move back to the big boy table?

sorry, still have to sit there until some one younger speaks up.

[JoeT]

My parents hadn't even met in 1955. . . my mom was 12

my father tells me similar stories of the quality of sanitation when he got his in Puerto Rico while he was in the navy in the late 50's early 60s.

[DANGERTASTIC!]

Thats cool we have a tattoo thread here! I just did this on a friend recently

[mcantar18c]

Now THAT is an awesome tattoo!

[Irving]

Glad you bumped this thread. I saw a guy with an interesting tattoo a while ago that I wanted to tell you guys about. It was a news style video camera with a 6 position AR-15 stock and a vertical foregrip with a trigger. He said "Video is my weapon of choice, and I shoot to kill." I thought it was pretty cool.

[DANGERTASTIC!]

Now THAT is an awesome tattoo!

Thanks man! I have always wanted to do that on someone. I have a couple cool ones on me, Ill put pics up when its finished

@Irving...that sounds awesome. I like that kind of stuff too

[ghettodub]

Here's my latest addition to my tattoo collection; time to get these legs done...'

[DANGERTASTIC!]

Very nice! Who was the artist?