Before
Van Gogh, before the painting of the Sistine Chapel,
Tattoo Lou was building his own tattoo equipment.
As far back as the bakalight tattoo machine, before
metals were used for frames, Tattoo Lou was there
making machines. There were no big suppliers back
then and tattooists were forced to do everything
for themselves. And I mean EVERYTHING.
Tattoo
Lou built his own machines out of odd parts, hand
wrapped his own coils, built his own needle, made
his own needle bars , machined his own tubes, built
his own power supply units and mixed his own inks.
Lou did all of this with the secrets of the old
school traditions and still found the time to hand
paint all of his own flash. Yes, he even tattooed
about 12 hours a day in the old school way back
in Coney Island, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Back
then you really had to bust your ass to make a living
tattooing. Today, big suppliers make tattoo artists'
lives a lot easier, so let us at Technical
Tattoo Supply make your life grand.
