Tattoo Gun

If by “nail gun compressor” you mean a shop compressor, than yes that’s actually better. The compressors they sell specifically for airbrush are junk. You’ll almost never see a professional using one. They either have a very small tank, or no tank at all. This means the compressor is constantly running, and pumping hot air through your hose. As the air cools in your line it creates water, causing you to have to use an in-line moisture trap.

As long as you have a regulator with a moisture trap, and the proper fittings, you’re good to go with the shop compressor. In my studio, I keep my compressor in another room. I have 3/8″ hose running from the compressor, through the ceiling to the regulator mounted on the wall where I paint. This way I don’t have to hear it when it kicks on.

As far as co2 goes, I’ve done it. The pros are it’s portable, it’s silent, and you don’t need a moisture trap. The cons are if you’re spraying wide open for any length of time, the gun will get so cold you’ll have to put it down. It also gets a bit expensive filling tanks all the time.

If you have any other airbrush questions, feel free to email me. I’ll be glad to help.

if so can you give me a link to the picture.

Like this?

http://www.funnyhub.com/pictures/img/a-loaded-tattoo.jpg

also what would be considered to be acceptable for normal use in outline & shading

MACHINE, it’s a tattoo machine.

Guns kill, machines create… clearly you arent an actual tattoo artist.

anyway, off my high horse… I use neuma machines, air powered…
but the artist in my shop who uses electric says he uses 11 wraps for everything, they hit softer, which is always better.

The DIY needle was never used on another person so no blood has ever touched it, is there any other infection/disease you can get from it?

If it is brand new and clean then no. But instead of using that kind of needle and doing it yourself, go pay to get it done. Home made tattoos and guns are crap

(I'm not educated on the workings of the gun)

Yes of course it does. The needle as well as the tube gets contaminated during a tattoo process. You cannot reuse needles ever and tubes, if not disposable, must be cleaned, the grips disassembled from the tubes and cleaned some more, then put into the ultrasonic, and then an autoclave.

Just curious.

First of all, it's a machine, not a gun and really the needles are like little pins - they only go to the dermal layer of the skin which is the second layer and deposit pigment along the way that is around the pins. It is designed to stay there - not be absorbed by the body.

With a shot (injection) it generally goes into the muscle which is incredibly deeper and uses an open bore needle for the purpose of sending a medication into the muscle to be easily absorbed into the body. (Of course there are intravenous needles, etc. but you did say "shot.")

im trying to make a tattoo gun and i need some tips any one got some?

Not a good idea, you usually make a bunch of mistakes that you live with forever, and take the risk of contracting hepatitis. But here is a former inmates version……not mine, I used to work in a jail and found this in his property.

* bic pen (this is your tube that houses the needle)
* 4 or 5" section of guitar string ,second one from the smallest. ( this is your needle)
* tooth brush ( this gets bent like a "7" and joins the pen to the motor)
* an eraser from a pencil (this joins the shaft of the motor to the needle/guitar string)
* small battery operated motor (from a "walkman" or a hand held fan)
* some tape (to join everything together)

Putting the pieces together:

1. Take the guitar string and bend a little bit of the end down or up.
2. Take out the ink tube of the pen, and cut it to about a 3 or 4" length, now file down the brass tip of the pen to get the ball out, make the hole big enough to allow passage of the needle.
3. Insert the needle into the pen.
4. Now take the tooth brush and cut off the bristles making it about 4" long. Heat it up in the middle with a lighter and bend it in to a "7" and hold in place untill stiff.
5. Join/tape the pen needle assembly to the tooth brush.
6. Now take the eraser from the pencil and shove it onto the shaft of the motor, try to get it as dead center as possible. Join the pen/needle/tooth brush to the motor/eraser assembly, tape the brush to the motor.
7. Take the bent part of the needle/guitar stirng and stick it into the eraser, IMPORTANT- the needle must be purposely OFF CENTER.
8. Now all that is left to do is find a power source, I used the plug-in adapter frrom a cd player. i guess you could hook up some batteries to a switch and then to the contacts of the motor

For all of you freaking out, I have a ton of tattoos to begin with, secondly I have been an illustrator for 20 years, and lastly I only wanted to know how to build one….so chill

They teach you in prison!!!!

how do I replace the coils on a tattoo gun?

just replace coils in reverse, from taking them off…….be sure to keep wires away from frame…….

i got a tattoo gun and dont know exactley how to put it together. i need to know exactley how to set the needles and how to place the rubber bands. also need to know how deep you should go and how high to set the generator

if you don't know how you shouldn't be tattooing!

UM i did give a answer!!!!!!! if you dont know how to put it together you shouldnt be using the thing so why dont you just shut up and get over it!!!!