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Question:
I started tattooing and have a problem with the ink not going in dark The
ink goes in light and I have to go over the same area over and over to make
it dark. I use blac jac, black widow and scream pitch black ink and am doing
tribal wave design. I have 3 ten-wrap tattoo guns. One I use for liner with
a #6 liner needle and 6 round tube and the other I use for shader with #7
shader needle and 8 round tube. I practiced on grapefruits and the ink went
in okay with thick dark lines. Then I tried it on practice skin and it went
in light with thin lines and had to do it over and over to get thick dark
lines. Same thing with the shader. I adjusted the liner gun to a dime
thickness and shader to a nickel and adjusted tubes so that the needles come
out 1/16" from tip of tube when pressing down on the armature bar. I have a
single knob power supply and adjusted to about 1/2 way till the gun runs
smooth. I can't get those thick dark lines like a pro tattooist or like Tony
Stevens in the "learn to tattoo" videos that I bought. I went ahead and did
a small 1 and 1/2" tribal wave and I really chewed up my leg. It came out
okay but the skin looks chewed up. The only thing I can think of is that the
tube is not letting the ink out. I have round stainless tubes with a small
cut-away. Maybe I should get a tube with bigger cut-away like in the video.
Or it could be the power supply. I was thinking of getting a 2 view meter
power supply that can adjust voltage and amps so that I can adjust voltage
to 12 volts and current to 3 or 4 amps.
Answer:
- You could get a tattoo apprenticeship! Then an experienced artist
would teach you these things!
- It's easy, you don't know how to stretch the skin properly, You don't
know how to set up your machine, you don't know how to control your hand
speed.
Come to think of it. Ya don't know shit and the video is not going to
teach you.
What are you useing to sterize, what do you know about cross contamination?
These issues and others will be addressed by an apprenticeship, not by a
bunch of strangers who notoriously don't approve of scratchers.
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