Where Does the First Tattoo Machine Come Out?

We all know that in modern society the main device that the tattoo artists use is the tattoo machine when they are doing tattoo practicing. Actually, we could even say that without tattoo machine, there would be no tattoos to be done in such a short time. However, there seems to be little people who care about the origin of the tattoo machines. How do th0065 people get the idea of inventing such kind of tattoo devices to solve the troubles tattoo artists may encounter when tattooing? And due to what reason does the tattoo practice become a flourishing industry in our nowadays society?

In the early history, tattoo practice is to insert ink into the people’s skin, leaving perpetual mark to differ from other normal people. So, on this purpose you could make the right guess that tattoo practice is for the prisoners, to prevent them from escaping, or, you could say, make escaping harder. We can infer that ancient tattoo practice is basically doing by hand work, using needles dipped with ink to punch into the skin little by little. However, gradually, it becomes very popular among the prisoners. They like the feeling that wearing different colors and patterns which make them look like more powerful. Also they could use tattoos to group their own gangs, right inside the prisons.

But they were lack of the basic tattoo equipments for tattooing in those days spent in prison. It’s true that needles can help, but that would waste a lots of time and those needles are not practical as modern tattoo needles. Some of the clever prisoners made their inventions. They tried to make the available items into a wholesale set. After uncountable times of trial, they did that. Those kits are the rudiment of today’s tattoo machines. Their tools are fountain pen, eraser, lighter, strings, tapes, etc. Strings would work as needles by being inserted into the tip of the pen. When connected to the power source, this simple and easy tattoo machine would actually work.

So, this is where and how the first tattoo machine comes out. Nowadays, we have so many cheap tattoo machines available for us to choose from freely. When you find the convenience of modern tattoo machines, you just can’t imagine how tattoo artists suffered in old days.

How do Prisoners Make Their Tattoo Machines?

Modern tattoo industry is very prosperous. Tattoo artists have high skilled crafts and tattoo appliances that are duly exquisite no matter cheap or expensive. However, when we recall the retrospection of the tattoo industry beginning, it would definitely lead to prisoners in the old times to mark their gangs or power.

But the question is, when in the prison, how did they get tattooed on their own body? Where did they get the tattoo equipment? Or if they had tattoo machine kits being able to help them finish tattooing when the circumstances was lack of tools and sterilization?

Actually, making a set of cheap tattoo machines with common things in our daily life is much easier than you can imagine. Without the help of a professional tattoo machine to draw a tattoo on your body, you can make a simple one to do the nail job.

Things below are necessary: a fountain pen, a tooth brush, an eraser, a lighter, guitar strings, ink, batteries, tapes and a small motor which would operate the batteries.

Let's start with the fountain pen. Take off the ink tube and get rid of its ball. Cut a proper section of the guitar string making the needle to fit into the tip of the fountain pen.

Remove the bristles of the tooth brush, and then use your lighter to heat in the middle to make the tooth brush in 90 degree form. Hold it until it's stiff.

Join the above two items together with your tapes. And then put it aside to the nest staff.

Take the eraser to attach the middle of the motor shaft, and the put the end of the guitar string into the eraser.

Now the last thing is to find a power source. Then contact the batteries to the switch to make the motor work.

Basically the whole thing is done. If you are not very certain about the working condition of your handmade tattoo machine, you can try it on a banana.

In old times, prisoners usually use this way to make their tattoo machine. Making a tattoo machine yourself is not for money-saving, but for fun and to learn more about the work of it. We now are pretty lucky as we can choose from a large series of cheap tattoo machines that do really good tattooing job.

General Knowledge of Tattoo Machines, together with some Business Facts

Usually, there are two types of tattoo machines, one is dual-kits, and the other is combined single-kit। These two tattoo machines are most commonly seen ones during work.

Dual-kits contain a liner and a shader, each with a different division of use and function. While combined single-kit, as its name implies, is one wholly set of tatoo machines. It needs to be settled by hand with the frequency of the tatto machines and the output of the tattoo power supply, in order to control the speed of machines and the process of needling when lining and shading.

The quality of the tatoo machines is not in proportion to their prices, but depends on their structures, such as the materials, layers of the coils, length and thickness of the spring, and the hand feeling.

The best material for making a tattoo machine is cast iron, instead of stainless steel or any other materials. Many cheap tattoo machines are made smooth and even, with the introductions showing stainless steel, which, actually, is not true, while they are usually made of cast iron by deep processing and rubdown treatment. This information is what you could not see from general product descriptions.

The shader is better build with 10 layers coils, and 8 layers coil for liners. You could not easily tell the former from the latter only by its appearance. However, there may be different in sizes of the coils between the liner and the shader, coils of the shader are usually bigger than that of liner.

Experienced tattoo artists could tell the quality of a tattoo machine from its working sound, whether it is sparking or crisp ringing, to evaluate its potential performing. And also by experience, large capacitive would be better than narrow one but this depends on each machine. You should check and make adjustment in the shop when buying it.

Some professional tattoo machines may get hot in no less than ten minutes after working. When this happens, check the needle to see if it rubs the direct connection. If so, make them separated. Some mini beginner tattoo kits contains DVD to tell you how to tune or set up a tattoo machine, but most of them are copied ones. Or you could ask for the Teaching DVD as a free gift.

The words are not that organized, please forgive me about that, just some experiences to share, hope this will be helpful।