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Hey guys, besides colllecting knives I also collect tattoos. I am almost finished with my left sleeve, just have some shading to do, about 6 hours worth and the left arm is done. I have a pic of my upper arm at outline stage. I will get some updated pics up soon as I have someone that will take the pics for me.



So if you have tattoo(s) lets see them.

I don't have any tatoos and anything I know about them is through osmosis only. Is that an "Asian" style tatoo?...or does it even have a style to it?

some may refer to this style of tattoo as Yakuza style. I just prefer to regard it as traditional Japanese style.

severedthumbs wrote:some may refer to this style of tattoo as Yakuza style. I just prefer to regard it as traditional Japanese style.

Oh thanks that narrows it down.

The last 2 pics feature a tribal around my right arm.

Second pic is a lion.

This tattoo is a tribute to my dad's fighting spirit during his battle against cancer(which he regrettably lost after about 4 months in 2003)

The first pic is the name of my son in gothic lettering(DYLAN)

Hi severed, although i don't have any tattoo's i can enjoy Tattoo's from different culture's especially the Japanes style called Horimono. I also like the fact that you can still get it done by tebori.
Although very expensive the fact that you endure multiple tebori sessions is a brave act indeed.

Horimono, I can never remember that word. Not irezumi, horimono. So many people think yakuza, but I am not japanese mafia.

tebori is cool, takes forever though and it is hard to find a artist that does it in America. All my work is kikaibori. Kikabori is much faster and still very painful in some areas, especially the elbow. The artist that does my work is a japanese guy that is actually from japan. pretty cool to actually have a japanese artist do the work. he tells me so much japanese stuff and I don't hardly remember any of it. But it is kind of hard to listen to a lecture on japanese art history while the ink is being pounded.

I would love to see your wolf tattoo TKC. There are a few more here with a soft spot for wolves. My wife and I have two Saarloos wolfdogs in our pack and Kristie loves wolves too.

spydutch, thanks for posting you pics. very nice memorial tattoo.

knifecollector any chance of gettin any pics of your ink?

I'am kind of with Knifecollector except I have pictures of my tattoo on my left arm and I really want to share, but i don't have a program to compress my picture files :o (any free suggestions). I also have my last name with the sword on my right arm

Jonny8642 wrote:I'am kind of with Knifecollector except I have pictures of my tattoo on my left arm and I really want to share, but i don't have a program to compress my picture files :o (any free suggestions). I also have my last name with the sword on my right arm

here you go, it is free and easy to use. http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... ySetup.exe

Thanks severdthumbs.
The first picture is what I started with and the final picture is were I am at now. It's suppose to be a black and gray shadding the all but the first picture were taken after I took the bandage off my arm.

nice, is the dragon getting any color?

yeah I just need to come up with the money for a two hour sitting

This is one I got a few years back. Also have a couple of smaller ones that I really dont care for that will someday be covered up.

Since everyone is sleeping I have to take pics on my own.. So they look a little weird since my skin is twisting to take pics. :)

Went and bought some batteries for my digital so I was able to get a picture of my right arm. This one I got when I turned 18 as a birthday gift to myself. Sorry for the poor quality I tried to take the picture by with a mirror

Hey Severdthumbs
What do you have on the lower part of you'r sleeve?

Jonny8642 wrote:Hey Severdthumbs
What do you have on the lower part of you'r sleeve?

It is a koi swimming up stream with waves and wind bars. Also a peony and another flower that I forget the name of at the moment. Also I have a couple kanji on the waves. I will try to get a pic of it sometime. It begins at my wrist and goes up to my shoulder.