Advances In Tattoo Machines

By Frederick Michaels McKinnon

Gone are the days when tattoos were done exclusively by hand. That is not to say that the whole process of making a tattoo is done by a machine, but machines have replaced traditional needles as the instrument of choice of professionals around the world.

Thanks to the rising demand, several companies have entered the fray, and we have a wide range of tattoo machines to choose from. Ranging from machines which are just more advanced needles to machines which have inbuilt pulse generators and can tap into the skin about 3000-4000 times a minute! A good tattoo artist will still be able to make a completely manual tattoo, and you should ask your tattoo artist if he can do that before you decide to engage his services. If one cannot handle a manual tattoo, handling a machine is much more complex and is a risk on your part!

Coming back to the rising popularity of the tattoo machines, it is primarily because of the consistency that the machines started appearing regularly at tattoo studios all around the world. Even the most professional tattoo artist will not be certain about the consistency of his needle, and that is a risk the pros should not take. To make that job easier, the first tattoo machines were invented.

I mentioned earlier that there are different types of tattoo machines and that some are simply more advanced versions of the traditional needle and the newer ones have electric pulses that perform around 4000 strokes a minute, meaning that the image comes out onto the skin in amazing detail, almost like a photo taken on a very high mega-pixel camera. Another advantage of these pulse machines is that the noise they make would be completely drowned out by the noise of an older machine i.e. they are very quiet compared to previous tattoo machines.

While a great deal of tattoo shops all over the world do now use these advanced tattoo machines that work with electrical pulses, it is not so uncommon to see tattoos still being done in the traditional manual way that has been around for many many centuries.

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