Day: December 26, 2025

I’m not quite sure if the know of needle making and sterilization will altogether disappear? It certainly is slowly less and less getting passed on as most tattooers now use disposable tubes, needles and cartridges .

I still soak, decontaminate, brush, rinse mine and Marnie’s tubes daily, it’s just part of my routine for over 30 years. Sometimes I wonder how many hours of my life I’ve been at this process!

He immediately infused me with traditional values in terms of machine building and tattoo history. I vividly remember him asking me about Coleman one day, and when I didn’t know who that was, he got so upset he literally walked away mid-conversation. “A generation of tattooers who don’t know Coleman… it finally happened,” he said.