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A better stick n poke wick

dirty andy

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If I'm going all out on the inter webs getting sterilized 5RL needles and tat ink, I was just wondering if anyone had better ideas for the wick other than sterilized string-wrap that I also use to sew with lol. Any and all advice, as always, is appreciated.

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yer phrasing of "tat ink" already turns me off so much it makes my skin crawl.

7rl is generally better for stick n pokes then 5rl. youll get more even hits.
 

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Personally I use 3RLs and they work just fine for a nice precise line. Do you wrap yours? I've never wrapped anything but a sewing needle. I find the professional tattoo needles hold ink just fine. Depending on what your poking into yourself, I feel a 7RL would become too thick.
 
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Thank you! Guess I will now purchase the variety pack. Yea I've never used an actual tattoo needle, just...other things, so I thought I would still need to use a wick to facilitate...flow..for lack of a better word. :p if they hold ink like that, that's gonna simplify my life !!!
 

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I think when he says rig he referring to a syringe full of ink..... nothing wrong wiv that providing its clean - friend of mine done some great work on himself using that set up.. unconventional yes but think about some of the bizarre tattooing kit they knock up in jail - guitar strings and walkman motors for fuck sake ! whatever works for you, I spent my entire life doing shit the 'wrong' way....
 
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using a syringle full of ink is a sure fire way to get a blown out tattoo. ive seen some pretty decent home made machines and jail house ones are some of the finer ones, i just always take people making their own machines with no idea what they are doing with a huge grain of salt because ive spent years learning how to professionally tattoo.
 

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well I wouldn't describe my buddies self made tatoos as looking remotely professional but they were at the better end of stick and poke, one was a Celtic band round his wrist with pretty exact knots going on.... as u undoubtedly know there are many ways to make a tattoo - he must have developed a technique that worked for him.... If I was still in touch wiv the mofo I'd try and post some pictures but I ain't seen him in years
 
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@cantcureherpes

It was a ten gauge hypo I found in a pair of nikes under the i80 overpass in mill hall. I was a bit suspect so I thoroughly rinsed it in the pond next to the glue factory but to my dismay after I finished the third line I realized the pond was apparently a fifteen year old homebum toilet.

Just kidding.

Or am I ? >:D
 

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I was wondering what I did wiv me Nike's... and that ol' 10 gauge javelin - hell that spike did the rounds last time I was in jail - kept throwing it away but like a boomerang it kept coming back - must of done like 3 tattoos and 4 ODs... y'all couldn't post it over to the UK so I can have one last dig ?
 
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