Tattoo coils are often compared to the heart of tattoo machines, which determine how much power goes into the machine and the frequency of the needles. In the market, you can find different types of tattoo coils that are designed for various parts of tattoo designs. Usually, tattoo artists will use 8 coils machines to draw outlines of tattoos, but you are suggested to get 10 wrap coils, which works pretty better for both shading and lining.

I’ve seen someone wrap tattoo coils all by his bare hands, but to get it done by a coil-winding machine will be a better choice. Things can be done in a much easier way.

Insert your plastic bobbin into that machine before wrapping and start from the underneath of the tattoo coil. Grab the wrap by one hand, and wind a small portion of the wire around the plastic bobbin. Remember to put the bobbin in a proper place, testing which by moving the machine’s level to one side and closing the protective glass door. Till now, you’ve done all the preparing work, so you can start the machine now.

The machine will allow the wire to coil around the bobbin. The layers of the wire wrapping on the tattoo coil will have affections on its specific function. That’s why you should pay much attention to that. When the bobbin is full, wrap the end by a piece of black electrical tape, so that it’ll have less electro conductibility in future using. If there is still any excess wire, just snip it off.

The next thing for you is to place the inner iron core inside the bobbin. You can use a vice or some other tools like that to press it through the hole in the bobbin. Insulate the tattoo coils with black shrink-wrap making sure they won’t conduct electricity when using. You may find it difficult to set an appropriate size for the shrink-wrap. In this case, you can use a flat edge to score that. After that, wrap the shrink-wrap around the tattoo coils and get a heat source adhere to the coils.

   That’s it. You’ve successfully wrap a tattoo coil for your tattoo machine, and it’s indeed not that difficult as you think. Try it now!

Everybody can’t deny that at least one second in your life, you’ve ever thought about having a temporary tattoo, especially when you’re invited to a party or some other occasion like that. Indeed, having a unique tattoo on your body will help to be the focus of the parties. Permanent tattoos make you marked with inks all through your life and you may have a painful experience when the needles move back and forth on your skin. Airbrush tattoos solve all the problems.

Airbrush tattoos look quite like permanent tattoos, which last longer than other temporary tattoos such as glitter tattoos. You can easily change the previous design into another one when you are tired of that. Less pain and fewer skills are required in the whole process. All things can be done as long as you get an airbrush tattoo kit.

Just as the name indicates, airbrush tattoo kits are used for creating airbrush tattoos. Those designs will last 3 to 5 week according to the way you treat them. 3 or 4 days may be needed if you want to remove that. With the airbrushes, an air compressor, several stencils, ink and other accessories coming to you in a kit, you can make airbrush tattoos easily all by yourself. So when can you use airbrush tattoo kits?

When it’s hot summer, you wear cottas and shorts showing your arms and legs to others. Why not make one special airbrush tattoo on them? Or you or your family members are invited to a party; you can apply an airbrush tattoo with the characters of your family to show your specialty. Or you are celebrating your kid’s birthday; surely you want to give him loads of fun. You may take out that airbrush tattoo kits to make your kid a memorable tattoo on the body. Your kid can receive a sweet memory while no marks will be left.

You can use your airbrush tattoo kits for yourself or people around you. You’ve got a chance to express your talents and creativeness. Even you can start a business to make money.

Airbrush tattoo designs for both kids and adults are available at ease, so you don’t need to worry about them. Airbrush tattoo kits are more than just fun. And what the extra gains are can only be told as long as you have experienced.

Tattoo machine can be seen as a most frequently used device with a very close relation to the human’s handy work, for the tattoo artists must hold the GRP of the machine which is to be stuck by the tattoo machine frame for the artists to practice several hours to finish even a tiny tattoo pattern with a narrow area.

Even though the tattoo machine can be called as an outer packing for the tattoo machine, however, actually, the whole device of the machine is not an enclosed form which could seal all the inside parts exclusively away from the outside world. The role that a tattoo machine frame plays is that it only does the job of bracing other mechanical components all together by its semi-closed frame form, by bracing other parts it mainly means that connecting the tip which contains the needle and the two coils together so the electromagnetic power would make the needle push movements up and downs, by the way of through coils. So, some of the tattoo machine frames have the form of covering one side of the coils to make it look like a small wall, but some other don’t. They just leave the coils showing out without any shelter.

So, here comes the problem of cleaning tattoo machines. Of course, a tattoo machine frame also deserves an attention equal to the tattoo machine though many people would miss it by accident. As we all know, tattoo machine’s cleaning is not as usual as any common devices. Because the machine’s needle and other parts which may also contact with the customers’ skin, those specific parts need to be cleaning by professional sterilization apparatus.

However, the tattoo machine frame doesn’t need to be sterilized specially as those certain parts, yet still, it needs frequently cleaning for it is the outsider skin of the tattoo machine and the semi-closed form of it would make it very easy to get dusty in its narrow corners. While practice, you may incautiously splash some ink onto the frame, if so, use sterilized cotton to wipe it over. Please remember, don’t use soap or other special oils or something, because they can be corroding for the frame, and thus affect its working function.

For tattoo artists, applying the correct tattoo designs on the customer’s body is a significant step for others to judge the credit of the artist. Only by making each customer please can you run an ever-prospering business. Tattoo stencil paper will be a great assistant to reduce your mistakes.

  Tattoo stencil paper works as a template to some extent, as it is designed for transfer designs temporarily onto the skin guiding the artists to do shading and lining in the right place. Though they come in different kinds and styles, the function for them are the same. You can print your ideal designs on tattoo stencil or draw with a special transferable pencil or ink. Then press the paper onto the skin to transfer the image. In this way, tattoo artists can trace the image to make a perfect design. That’s how tattoo stencil paper works.

  Skilled tattoo artists may don’t really rely on tattoo stencil, but mistakes may turn up without indications. For example, your customer may require a special design, but the one you apply on his body is not corresponding exactly to his requirements. As you are making permanent tattoos, even a little mistake has effects on the whole design. With the help of stencil paper, you can allow the customer to preview the design before applying permanently on his skin. Also, they can have a chance to make sure they like the design and decide where to put the tattoo. As a result, fewer mistakes will happen. Only by giving the customers 100% satisfaction can you win a large popularity in your local area.

   Tattoo stencil paper is much more valuable than you can image. Take it into consideration when you decide to give a tattoo or open a tattoo studio. It’s really to make a purchase. Tattoo supply stores both online and in your local stores offering tattoo stencil, as well as stencil pencils and ink, with really favorable prices. You can pick out your favorite styles after trying different kinds.

One of my friends wants to get tattooed, but she said she is quite afraid of the tattoo needles. It’s horrible for her to image the needles moving back and forth in the skin. Maybe you will have this fear as well, so I would like to share some opinions to help you get over it.

The first and foremost thing is to get as much knowledge about tattoo needles as you can. Women who pursue beauty may fear that it may leave scars on their body after get tattooed. If you really have rich information, you will be informed that your ideal tattoo designs will be done without leaving any scar.

Have you ever get poke with a needle? Maybe not tattoo needles, but those needles used to sew your clothes. You may bleed, but after some proper care, your skin will recover soon. The same with tattoo needles, they won’t hurt you as badly as you suppose to. My friend did so. She used to think that tattoo needles may bring really painful experience and the blood will bleed hardly when the needles moving. Just take it easy. Tattoo artists that help you get tattooed are pretty skilled as they have been in this business for years. They surely know how to care for your skin and make your tattooing experience less painful.

If you have some friends have got tattooed before, talk to them. I bet they will tell you some details of the whole process. Or you can search for some videos to see how a tattoo design is done on the skin. The more you know, the less fear you will have.

The most important thing is to try. Numerous people telling you it’s that horrible as you image repeatedly is less useful than you experience it yourself. Just like drinking a cup of water, only the one who drink it knows whether the water is hot or cold. Others say tattooing is painful maybe the pain he got is beyond his endurance, but you can bear it and feel at ease. So you just try if you really want to get tattooed.

More suggestions: do some surveys to find the tattoo artist who is recommended by most people and follow the artists’ advice.

 Hope I did help you get over fear of tattoo needles. Take it easy. Enjoy a happy tattooing to make yourself more unique.

To many of the common people, tattoo machines are uncanny and intricate devices, which usually can be smoothly manipulated by professional experts of the tattoo artists. However, if you stand closely enough to see into them, you will get the concept that how you misunderstood them previously by prejudice. Tattoo machines are not complex and horrifying devices, on the contrary they are quite easy to learn and doing a lot of help to the tattoo artists for relieving them from repeatedly heavy hand work to exquisite art creation of the colorful patterns under the human skin.

There are several items of the interesting knowledge or tips I would like to share with you about tattoo machines, which I call as their little secrets. In spite of the notorious beginning of the tattoo art history, tattoo machines are actually invented by Thomas Alva Edison, who, yes, is exactly the same famous man carved in the human annals for his numerous inventions to push forward the human world. Thomas Alva Edison made out the first version of electric devices for engrave inks to specific surface, so called as Stencil-Pens, which was although not tended to be the origin of tattoo machines in modern times, yet truly gave the indication to run and indeed be the basic form of today’s tattoo devices.

The working theory of tattoo machines is very simple, so simple that many experienced tattoo artists could home-make their own appliances to low the cost for their practice. Because although the electric version of tattoo machines has been invented, the general working rule of the machines is not changed, which lies in the needles constant penetration to insert ink. For tattoo machines, those ones that don’t hit too hard while practicing are good machines, because if hitting too had, dedicate human skin will easily get hurt, let alone the customers’ tolerance to the pain. Most important, is that hitting too hard machine will restrain the intake of the needle due to the machine’s construction.

Like two patterns in tattoo practice, there are two main streams of tattoo machines, machines for lining, and machines for shading. The two machines which respectively have a slight difference between themselves will help the tattoo artists accomplish the expectant tattoo patterns in their mind.

 Have you seen someone transfer pictures or images downloaded from the Internet into their unique tattoo designs? Would you feel like having a try? Don’t worry. Tattoos now are accepted by almost all the people. Just get one if you like. To get started, your fundamental tattoo equipment is tattoo needles, which is easy to be found in stores online or in your local area.

  A tattoo needle in made up of several sharp ends attached to some solitary bar, which is used to supply tattoo ink into the skin. The sharps can range from 3 to 9 ends at one bar. You can make more if needed. Make your own choice to make you feel comfortable when doing tattoos.

  Basically there are two kinds of tattoo needles, round ones for lining and flat ones for shading, which is divided according to the shape of the needle.

The round liner needles will be applied to outline the form of the tattoo design, which will be more than one needles attached together making a round shape or may be just one needle attached to the bar. Those single needles are rarely used in today’s tattooing, but Motorcycle style tattoo designs require a lot of their exquisite work so that those delicate designs can be fully expressed. To accomplish an awesome outline, you need at least three needles, but nine at most considering for the thickness.

 The flat shade needles, also known as magnum needles as well, perform well in shading the tattoo and fill the tattoo design with suitable colors. It may be a combination of 9 or more needles and appears as double rows. With the help of this kind of needles, tattoo designs turn up to be more vivid and animated.

 When comes to the painful experience with these two kinds of needles, people may give your different answers, but more will tell you it’s really painful when outlining. Indeed, that would be the first step in tattoo practice associated with pain. Shading will be slightly less painful, so outlining requires more for the needles’ continuous movement.

   As your fundamental tattoo equipment, tattoo needles play a really essential role in getting tattooed. Choosing the correct number and type may relief your pain to some extent.

A tattoo kit is used by people who want to tattoos. It is always used by professional tattoo artist or tattoo enthusiasts. There are various tattoo kits in the market. However, different brand and different size comes different price. You can buy these kit in the tattoo shop or online. But online is your best choice, as they always have the advantage of low price.

Contents

General, tattoo kit contains all the basic things such as tattoo machines, needles, inks, power supply, and aluminum grips and so on. Some professional tattoo kit comes 2 tattoo guns at least, tattoo practice skin and CD for teaching & learning. More details are contained more comprehensive in the professional tattoo kit. Of cause, professional ones will provide you more service.

Quality

We can determine the quality of a tattoo kit by several signs. First, the sanitation of the kit. As some tools like tattoo needles in the kit are contact human skin directly. If without the proper sanitation, there is a risk of disease and infection. So the sanitation decides health of your customs. Second, tattoo ink. Some of the manufacturers go after more profit, so they use some ink which mix in chemical hazardous substances. It is bad for the skin. Third sign is the kit itself. The packaging materials is made of waterproof and firm, or how to protect the things which in it.

Replenishment

Regular replenishment is needed for a tattoo kit. Or something goes bad, replace them is difficult. Like disposable tattoo needles, they are needed to replace them. Often this good tattoo kit will make people easy to buy.

Maintenance 

In a tattoo kit, most should be paid attention is tattoo machine. As we know, tattoo machines are consumption goods during the tattoo processing. They are used to supply the link on the skin at a rate 50 to 3000times in a minute. The front spring and the contact screws are easy to damage, in order to ensure the safety the regular maintenance and regular cleaning is needed for the tattoo machine. This also ensures the quality of the tattoo.

Then there came Thomas Riley, who made out one set of tattoo machines with a single coil operated to work by electromagnets, got his invention just twenty days after O’Reily patented his machine.

When 1899, Alfred Charles Smith, another smart guy in London, doubles the coil in tattoo machines, which lead to the close prototype of today’s devices. The first version of this two- coil electromagnet tattoo machine is very heavy, it can be no exaggeration to say that while working they sometimes need to be fixed onto the ceiling of the tattoo studio and then hung down to the tattoo artists for work.

In the next 200 years, tattoo machines basically maintain the original design and the appearance, which, around 1929, had then been slightly improved and developed by Percy Waters; an American lived in Detroit, who promoted the tattoo machines and set them in the tune of the modern way.

Although the set that Waters modified was with two coils in line with the tattoo machine frame, Waters had done a lot of other different changes to tattoo machines, such as on and off switch and spark shield. Due to his various modifications, he was the very first inventor who promoted tattoo machines into large market.

Fifty years later from then, in 1979, Carol Nightingale from Washington D.C. got his tattoo machine patented. He made full adjustments of coils, back spring mount and contact screw, as well as angled armature bar and so on.

With deeper development of technique, tattoo machines got more artistic precision and the control of speed and needle depth. In recent 2000, revolutionary pneumatic tattoo machines were invented by Carson Hill, which using air to work instead of electromagnets, to make the needle penetrating more smoothly.

You could say tattoo machines have gone through many modifications during these hundreds of years. However, no matter how many modifications they’ve been undergone, they will never suits each tattoo artist’s demand and individual application , because tattoo practice is personal, so as the tattoo machines. There could never be an end of continuing designs towards tattoo machines, and in America and Europe there are still many tattoo artists working on new inventions of tattoo machines, though not each time is an improvement, but the search goes on.

  You may find it easy to assemble homemade tattoo guns, but the first version of tattoo gun came out in 1800s and those guns become one of the essential equipment for tattooing with nearly 200 years’ developing. Now, let’s take a short glance of the history of tattoo guns together.

  Samuel O’Reilly, who is said to be the undisputed owner and pioneer for the first tattoo guns, got his patent by making a little change to the stencil pen invented in 1876 by Thomas Alva Edison, who got the basic idea of penetrating the colorful powder into the cloth or paper with sharp pinheads. That’s why most modern tattoo guns work in a similar way with stencil pens. From then, the prototypes came into being.

Then a Danish named Oersted discovered the basic electrical principle of electromagnetism enabling tattoo guns work freely and Thomas Riley from London made some developments to that and made out one gun with a single coil working by electromagnets. In 1899, Alfred Charles Smith from London doubled the coils, but they’re not convenient in use as they were too heavy to handle.

   Tattoo guns generally maintain the original designs in the following 200 years until Percy Waters, an American lived in Detroit, who promoted the guns and set them in the tune of the modern way. He made the two coils in line with the frame, and gave various modifications to the switch and spark shield. Till then, tattoo guns became really popular in the market.

  Then five years later, Carol Nightingale from Washington D.C. got his tattoo gun patented in 1979. Full adjustments had been made to the coils, back springs mount, contact screw, angled armature bar etc.

   The technique is always developing, and precision and control of the speed and needles have been added. In 2000, revolutionary pneumatic tattoo guns were invented by Carson Hill, inserting needles with air instead of electromagnets, more smoothly.

  It’s really a long way of developing since invented. And tattoo artists in America and Europe are still working on new inventions, making the guns both cheap and practical in use. Handmade tattoo guns with specific demands in tattoo practice are now pretty popular. Surely more tattoo guns cheap with exquisite appearance and awesome functions will be invented in the future as improvement has been made little by little and the search is still going on.