What is your favorite machine and why

um i like my huck spaulding puma cause it came in a cool starter kit with everything i needed and the power supply looks like a vintage toaster its awsome!my machine chatters in the wind its great it all chromed out like a hot rod!you should get one!YOU SEE THE KEY IS TO GET A MACHINE THAT RUNS REALLY LOUD!thats the secret but dont tell anyone else dood then everyone will want one......deal

NO HUCK SPAULDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ewwww i can't believe that anyone would consider that a good machine...... for a good starter go for a bicknee at least... possibly if you can afford it, a national. or time machine....I started with a time machine my old boss's now i'm using a texas custom Iron, ant I'm fucking spoiled....hard to use anything else

My favourite is a Glyn Flew Roger 1, that machine is my all time favourite, I just love it!

my favorite is the Time Machine.It works great for me.

and yeah,the Huck Spaulding machines Suck big time.they over heat and are just poorly made.If anyones serious about tattooing dont half heartedly buy this product just because its cheaper.

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The best tattoo machines are made in china!

I like my own machines. I make them myself. I cast them out of lodge cast iron skillets I melt down. I turn my own binding posts out of brass and cut my own springs and wrap my own coils. Simple as that and I paint my own flash. bicknee sells great coil sets. Great if your starting to assemble machines. Leave the machine making to the machinests. Huck spaulding machines are cool! Every one copies its suprem cut back frame. Rollomatics are based off the suprems, I do belive the suprems go back a bit father than huck spaulding, theve only popularized the design. I realy like my salior jerry's bull dog from around the 1960's I found in a street market in japan its really old and its my best one buy far.

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Just so that everyone is clear on this thread, this is a very young guy trying to pick a few brains for some advice as to which tattoo machine he should buy for his first machine. The first machine you should buy is an automobile when you're of legal driving age so that you can start exploring apprenticeship opportunities and possibly land one when you're of legal age to be in a tattoo shop according to the juristictions of the area you're looking in.

just wondering what any you guys think of micky sharp machines it seems to be all the tattoo artists use in uk any one used one of these

THE BEST TATTOO MACHINE BY FAR IS THE SWASHDRIVE THEN VTEK

Workorse Irons, Next Generation, Texas Custom Irons, or a good inexpensice machine is Paco Rollins.

you figure and icon such as huck would put out quality machines....not the case.....workhorse puts out the best machines for the dollar amount in my opinion...ive also recently been using a next gen aluminum orion with half coils...not recomended for the slow wristed...my favorite is hands down the aaron cain hook....you can keep the rest

I have a Internation Cast Iron liner that for some reason seems to run like a dream for me, I've heard other people say they don't care much for international but I would never be able to part with this machine. I also have an International Brass shader with a huge capasitor on it that run so smooth and slow it works awsome for black and grey

I like using vrad machine for now until i get my appre for tattooing and everything i'm still looking for which needles are the best for me....but anyways i have 2 Vrad's and they havent over heated or shocked or sparked on me yet

What qualifies you to give an opinion? You obviously do not work in a shop(ya said you are waiting to apprentice)....Lets make a deal when we want your opinion we will give it to you!!...In other words LEARN BEFORE YOU TEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pisssed off Taz

Aaron Cain, Micky Sharpz, Micky Bee, Danny Knight, Time, Robbie Barra, I use em all.

Aaron Cain m/c is superb as is Danny Knight ( I got 2 of these). Micky sharpz is ok for a mass produced item.

The best m/c by far is the one in your head, dont think that a Aaron Cain m/c will make you a better tattooer, you gotta use your head m/c for that!!!

Something that doesnt require a pedal..im finding no matter what machine I use and I have four, its really whos hands are around it..a machine doesnt make a person..the person makes the machine..but i would love to have one that doesnt have a pedal cause im short and its just a pain after awhile..

I have several machines , my favorite is a Todd Hlavaty for shading,
My liner , I built on a walker style frame my own coils and springs
and armature . As far as im concernd most run about the same when tuned properly and have a good power unit I think most would agree its the artists personal experience and know how. If I had to I could do a good tattoo with a puma.