TATTOO MACHINE WORKSHOP INFORMATION

THIS IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE TATTOO MACHINE SEMINAR. 

 GUARANTEED. 

DISSECTING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC TATTOO MACHINE AND SHARING THE RELATION BETWEEN MACHINE FUNCTION, TECHNIQUE AND FINISHED PRODUCT. 

LEARN TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR INDUSTRY BY UNDERSTANDING THE TOOLS OF YOUR TRADE. 

DO NOT BELIEVE REVIEWS FROM SUPPLIERS WHO DO NOT TATTOO, WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND TECHNIQUE, WHO ARE ONLY IN THIS TO MAKE A BUCK THROUGH  EXPLOITATION OF OUR TRADE. 

6 INTERNATIONAL PATENTS ON MACHINE TECHNOLOGY, AUTHORS OF AN ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADED ELECTROGAGNETIC MACHINE TEXT BOOK (990,000 times since it's release in 6 languages between 2005 and 2009) AND 39 YEARS OF TATTOOING IN EVERY STYLE AND SIZE GRANTS US THE AUTHORITY TO SHARE VALUABLE INFORMATION WHICH COULD HAVE SAVED THE INDUSTRY WE KNOW AND LOVE, BEFORE THE TV AND FOREIGN (AS IN NON-TATTOO ARTIST) SUPPLIER INVESTMENT AND and MAY STILL GIVE A GLIMPSE OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF TATTOOING. 

WE CAN RECLAIM OUR TRADE, WE CAN CONTROL WHO STAYS AND WHO CAN'T COME IN OR SIMPLY YOU MAY DECIDE BUY ANY CHEAP COIL MACHINE AND LEARN TO TURN IT INTO A VERSATILE FULLY FUNCTIONAL TOOL. 

DO NOT CHANGE THE WAY YOU TATTOO TO ADAPT TO A MACHINE, INSTEAD, CHANGE AND MAKE THAT MACHINE PERFORM THE NECESSARY FUNCTIONS AT 100 PERCENT, TO SUIT THE RESULT YOU ARE AFTER. 

IF THERE IS ENOUGH INTEREST, WE WILL INCLUDE NEEDLE MAKING. CONTROL THE GROUPINGS AND THEIR TIGHTNESS. DON'T LEAVE IT IN THE HANDS OF SOME "TATTOO FACTORY" IN CHINA OR WHEREVER, TO TELL YOU WHAT QUALITY FUNCTION IS.  

GODOY INTERVIEW: EXCERPT FROM AUSTRALIA INKED MAGAZINE Do you feel there is a lack of understanding and knowledge from some sections of the tattoo community about the importance of good machines and treating them well? -- Lack of understanding in SOME sections? Try all sections! The lack of knowledge is blatantly obvious in this industry from the top to the bottom. Two plus two doesn't equal four in this business. There is so much superstition and myth, people barking up the wrong trees. Standard business models do not work in tattooing, Customers are not always right! Complaints about the Chinese coming in and selling their cheap products. suppliers who are not accountable for the products they sell, artists thinking the supplier knows about what he sells… when the real problem is ignorant artist population. Artists like to complain and act like they know… a good machine? define that… is it brand name? NO, there are specific manufacturers who have a 'name' who tattoo like 10 year old kids.. obviously they do not understand artistic technique, they have no clue on how to make a machine do what is needed, much less set up a machine to be able to handle this! A good machine?? the bottom line is that any electromagnetic tattoo machine CAN BE MADE INTO A GOOD MACHINE. Understand function, understand components, specifications… parallelism. There are basic characteristics a machine needs to be 100%. The goals is to understand this and it's relation to technique and modify it to YOUR needs and NOT to have to adapt to whatever you buy out of the box. Do not accept that the machine you buy are already set up. Who built it? who sells it? do they really know what YOU need, and what the machine needs to do to be able to facilitate your artistic technical requirements? Artists can control the industry, we can decide who stays and who goes and who will be let in. There are a lot of people coming into OUR industry who's credentials are questionable. We say OUR industry / TRADE because there are people getting involved just to make money, who do not tattoo, who have not paid their dues in this business. Just because a supplier can buy bulk Chinese products and re sell them DOES NOT mean that he knows anything about what he sells.

The ignorance of the magazines trying to create and define the 'tattoo culture' as a bunch of freaks dressed as 1950's ghouls with day of the dead paint on their faces taking pictures in a graveyard, is so off the mark… these 'tattoo lifestyle' magazines, and in fact almost all the tattoo industry magazines show pictures of artists tattooing without bags on their machines and 99% of artists look at that photo and think that this is a normal and acceptable STANDARD just because they see it in the magazines! … IT IS NOT! It is NOT health compliant. This art depends on science and physics - technical and mechanical systems - and the observance of health conscious procedures because the clients ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT INGREDIENTS in our equation. They come into shops innocently to get tattooed and are sometimes greeted with egos and attitudes, sold on images that are substandard, are dissuaded from their original ideas because the artist is not competent to do the job THE WAY THE CLIENT WANTS IT, occasionally he tattoos them with untuned machines and unrefined amateurism.

This is a customer service job, it is a minor surgery and as such there is no room for 'tattoo kits' or any kind of 'entry level' apparatus. Sadly, it's there, it's everywhere and magazines advertise full page ads from suppliers who sell these types of 'kits', who sell these amateurs their new identities… ads in these mags for clothing that says 'bitch' or 'tattooed white trash', is this what we as 'professional artists' want to be associated with? The reality is that suppliers do not have to be accountable for what they sell. They do not take responsibility to understand the products they carry, it's not their job. Pigment recalls, needles which may have several different types of tapers in one grouping. They accept returned machines sometimes covered in biohazard from clients who do not bag their machines, and re sell them. NOT ALL DO THIS, THERE ARE SOME HOWEVER WHO DO… Yet the artist puts his complete faith in these suppliers. Come on, really? it's an epidemic and the fucked thing is that there are huge numbers of artists who do not care because they are so busy grooming their images and maintaining their egos that they do not even know that there is a problem, those who do realize there is a problem don't know what it is or how to attack it! We are clients of suppliers as well, we buy pigments, we buy loose needles and make our own groupings, we are concerned about quality and safety. We control the tightness of our needle groupings instead of conforming to a "Chinese standard" as the are the ones selling pre made inconsistent groupings...We try not to buy from anyone who is not part of the solution. We have done tons of interviews stating these facts. Because of tattooing's growth in popularity, it's huge earning potential and the immediate 'rock star' status an artist gets, tons of new beginners are entering our work force. They are being sold products without a second thought by suppliers who do not see the harm in it. There is a fine line between lack of understanding and blatantly ignoring what is really going on. No magazines had the balls to print any of our interviews because they didn't want our content to offend their full page advertisers, their back cover advertisers or anyone who supported these types of ethics knowingly or un knowingly, NOR did THEY THEMSELVES want to be called out on the substandard ethics they help to perpetuate.

SEMINAR WORKSHOP starts at 11:00 am, we cover a lot of material so it is in your best interest to arrive early and check in by 10:30 so we can start on time at 11:00 am. If you miss any part of the seminar workshop due to late arrival, we will not back track to catch you up; this is due to the amount of information being taught.  We will also need to have time to do the workshop part of the class; hands on diagnosing and repairing, cutting springs, dealing with capacitors, going through spring tension tests and ball system tuning and refining. If there is enough interest, needle making will be taught. This includes information on needle gauge, taper, material, groupings etc. 

This seminar workshop is an all day event. 

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