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Tattoo Master 19
  • Hello, My Name Is: Boog
    I met Boog during the 1990s at the Roseland, New York Tattoo Convention. I was already aware of how much of a phenomenon his flash art was, and how it would therefore impact on the world – I bought his whole collection from him there and then. Since...
  • TPI - 19
    Tattoo Master is delighted to have the TPI back writing articles that illuminate issues within the tattoo industry that aim to bring an awareness of problems, and ultimately to help in the protection of an age-old art form that has been open to...
  • Dale Robertson - ADL Lasers: Unlocking Financial Shackles
    These days, the banks are much maligned. I have now done several interviews where the people who once used banks, finance companies or other financial services, are now exploring an alternative to the cold, monolithic, and corporate financial...
  • Distinguished, Quality Sterilisation - Tuttnauer Autoclaves
    In most of the magazines I have worked on so far I brought you features about autoclaves where the companies that make them have shared knowledge with the tattooists and highlighted their product range at the same time. Likewise, this feature is...
  • Cartridge Machine System Explained by Maxine Suter
    I met the lovely Maxine Suter at Tattoo Jam where she spent some time showing me the latest Cheyenne machines. This company is growing and expanding due to the fact that they are providing a system that is making the art of tattoo a lot simpler to...
  • 17 Years in Gravesend - Harry Potter
    Harry has many years experience in the tattoo business, started while serving in the Royal Navy aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Cleopatra at Port Said in Egypt, becoming the ship’s unofficial tattooist. Harry has seen the evolution of tattooing from the...
  • Horinami - Overcoming the Whispering Devils
    Horinami is the most important female tattoo artist in Japan. Having started nearly three decades ago, she was the first female horishi, and her work is testimony to years of hardship and perseverance in a male dominated world. Having studied under...
  • Canvas, Pallet, Paint & Brush - Big Al
    Big Al does some very nice paintings in his spare time. They are absolutely fantastic and I saw some of them at a convention where they were drawing a keen interest from the passers by; I think everybody agreed they were fantastic, so I asked Al if...
  • Neil (Ace-a) Hearts - The Heart of the Matter
    I have known Neil for a long time now. He has for many years travelled around the East Coast area of the US, Toronto, New York and Boston, with his carefree approach to life, borne of the fact that he doesn’t really become too affected by the...
  • Aasen Stephenson - A Cut Above
    I interviewed Aasen Stephenson some time back when he was working in Selfridges in London, tattooing high quality leather shoes. Aasen is not a tattooist, but he is making a career from art which is something to behold. It is inspiring to see...
  • Ian of Reading - Full Circle With Rotaries
    I really wanted to interview Ian and I know a lot of people will want to read something from a man that, in the Tattoo world, can be seen as a legitimate legend. There were many, many things we could have talked about, and we did. But this was a...
  • Craigy Lee - Worldly Values
    I met up with tattooist Craigy Lee at the Cardiff Tattoo Show just before he was due to leave for Australia. As a regular contributor to Skin Deep magazine it is well known that he has travelled extensively. Travel has certain benefits, despite the...
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Tattoo Master 18
  • Paul Humphreys - Evolution Tattoo
    Evolution Tattoo was founded in 2006 by Paul Humphreys and his wife, Carly, and has since risen in prominence in the tattoo industry to a noticeable degree. If you are going to do well, it would be a good idea to study people like Paul who seem to...
  • English Rose: Carl Burton
    The very first studio I ever went into was in Peterborough over 20 years ago. That was where I spoke to the very first tattooist I ever met; where I got my first advice about entering the world of tattooing; and where I returned to meet the people...
  • Colourful Opinions - Dave Diamond, Chris Couger & Dale
    Poor old Dale; I don’t know how he manages. I reckon that Dave Diamond and Chris Cougar together make for a profane Waldorf and Stadtler. With opinions that are completely over the top, an evening in their company is like an onslaught of hilarity....
  • Spit it Out - Zion & Vikki
    Vikki and Zion operate a successful combination of rock band and merchandise business. Their website was ranked in the top one percent worldwide. In social networking they were quick off the mark; they should have advertisers and other commercially-...
  • Martin Morrissey & Serious Harassment
    I interviewed Martin because I knew he had recently moved away from Brixton due to the problems he was experiencing. This is one of the most controversial interviews I have done, as a lot of what is said is beyond what some people would want you to...
  • Master Machine Builder - Dano Collins: Part 2
    In the last issue of Tattoo Master we ran a piece on Dano Collins. If you remember, Dano is one of those old school guys who has been on the tattooing scene for 40 years now, runs a museum, is in a blues band, and is generally a fountain of...
  • Traditional Japanese Work - Horicho II
    This is an article that, by and large, I left alone without changes to the way it is written. This is because the heavy Japanese can be felt through each word and each sentence. Allied to this is the rich, historical oriental tradition that has been...
  • Tom Hearn - Exploring iPad Painting
    Tom Hearn came to my attention as an up and coming young artist some time ago. His latest work on the iPad is quite simply extraordinary. I asked him to do an interview with me, but he went one step further and eruditely wrote the whole thing...
  • Ian Robert McKown - Less Elements, Stronger Pieces: Part 2
    In the last issue we followed Ian Robert McKown as he walked us through a triptych of paintings he had created. In this, the second part of his tutorial, Ian paints the final piece in his series, ‘Earth Mother’, explaining how the last painting...
  • Bob Moore - Borderline and Bad
    Once upon a time, the outlaw character that is Bob Moore, ran a studio in Cheltenham. He is retired now but I managed to get Bob, his son, Mark Moore, and Paul Scarrott, all from Mantra Tattoo in Cheltenham, to come together one evening for an...
  • Bourne Drawing Boards
    If you want high quality artist’s equipment, then you would surely be advised to look at the J.R.Bourne line of products. Here, I focused on the drawing tables, as I have been looking to upgrade to something more sturdy than the rickety old...
  • Fabio Giovannoni - Infinity Tattoo Controller
    Are you, like me, sick of fooling around with coil machines? With Fabio Giavannoni’s pulse regulating device there is no need for cleaning contacts, re-tuning, lubricating, etc., and your machine will run better than rotaries that wear out and lack...
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Tattoo Master 17
  • Hello, My Name Is: Mick Tomo
    I have known Mick for a long time… probably 20 years. Despite being younger than me, he has been tattooing 12 years longer, and I not only admire his work, but it was Mick who got me started on the road to lasering; like me, he sees a future for...
  • Keeping Hold of Adam Jones
    Adam Jones is a prime example of an enthusiastic new face in tattoo art who went through the ideal situation of apprenticing under a top tattooist. And having shown his worth, he now works closely by Mick’s side producing solid, professional and...
  • Notorious Arc Foot Switches
    So I go into the studio on a day-to-day basis, shake my ink bottles, turn on the power supply, set up my machines, and get to tattooing with the designs I have been requested to work with. Ah, the bliss of being at the helm of a tattoo shop that...
  • Grand Master of Flash - Selwyn's Systems
    In the 20 years that I have traded as a tattooist in a street shop that customers could walk into freely, there has been one aspect that has been a part of my shop from the very beginning… the flash rack. I have been to many studios in my time and...
  • Mr. Leech's Tattoo Booth
    As usual in Tattoo Master, I got my mate Mr. Leech to build us something for the mag, so he put together a stall to take to the backstage area at Download festival where we have a yearly residence. What we needed was something that looked...
  • Tenbomb Graffiti
    The bare wood tattoo booth was finished and sat on Mr. Leech’s driveway a week before Download, when I got a phone call from the awesome graffiti experts, Tenbomb. Ed Waldron had told them I was looking for graffiti artists and their timing was...
  • Three Star Al - Legendary Alan Park
    Pamphlets, business cards, price lists and letters. The truly awe-inspiring and gentlemanly Three Star Alan Park from St. Neots has kept lots of these in pristine condition from the mid ’60s onwards since just before he began tattooing in 1966. With...
  • Plinth 2000: Tattoo Furniture
    I took a trip to the Plinth 2000 Ltd headquarters, set in a beautiful, remote manor house, to view the processes involved in building their robust and stylish tattoo couches. They clearly have the whole process worked out with products manufactured...
  • Autoclaves: Dealing With Endotoxin
    Based in Northamptonshire with a factory unit in Corby and offices in Ringstead, MDS Medical Ltd offer a range of autoclaves that can fit into any studio and at prices that seem reasonable. I spoke to Dave Thomas from MDS, who explained why his...
  • Mark Pettigrew Warms His Needles
    I had the very lovely model, Jessica Mellow, come along with me to interview the long-established, Mark Pettigrew. Jessica chatted to Mark and this interview here is the result. It is absolutely true that if you wish to discover more about your art...
  • Addictive Jay Wojceik
    As pledged in the last issue, here is an article about a very talented artist from Canada called Jason Wojceik, who passed away in February. In his brief time in tattooing he became an excellent artist and machine builder who was clearly admired by...
  • Download Festival 2012
    With the stall designed, painted and flat-packed ready to go, we headed off in a van to the Download  Festival in Donington Park near Nottingham and Derby, to try it out in the field… literally. The mud was thick, the rain was hammering down...
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