DIY Tattoo gun

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Graphak writes - "Using the motor from almost any remote control car/boat/airplane, a toothbrush, Bic Pen, tape, and other random stuff around the house, you can make a real tattto gun. This is similar to the kind that prison inmates make." - Link. Oh...Don't build this, unless you tattoo MAKE on your arm or something, thanks.


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Posted by: yo_tyler on July 27, 2006 at 11:38 PM

Just what i want, an inmate-grade tattoo gun. No need for ink, just let the infection do its thing!


Posted by: yo_tyler on July 27, 2006 at 11:52 PM

Just what i want, an inmate-grade tattoo gun. No need for ink, just let the infection do its thing!


Posted by: NateMC on July 28, 2006 at 2:38 AM

It would be less insulting to call your mother a whore than to call a machine of art, a gun.


Posted by: byates on July 28, 2006 at 4:06 AM

NateMC, you never hear of a paint gun?


Posted by: byates on July 28, 2006 at 4:07 AM

NateMC, you never hear of a paint gun?


Posted by: Muddler on July 28, 2006 at 2:53 PM

Congrats - another posting so stupidly dangerous that it shouldn't have made it past the common sense meters and onto the blog. Right up there with the razor blade throwing stars.


Posted by: philliptorrone on July 28, 2006 at 3:03 PM

i think it's ok to post humor, and that's what this is.

the razor blade throwing stars required a welder, so far the death toll has been at a steady zero - people are smart and responsible - not sure i'd like to turn make in to a nanny-nation style blog :(


Posted by: blindrage on July 28, 2006 at 11:47 PM

I see this and I wonder why no one has yet come up with a DIY circumcision post.


Posted by: luketheobscure on August 16, 2007 at 7:16 PM

Amen, NateMC.

Paul Rogers quote?


Posted by: muchklownluvcuz666 on December 25, 2007 at 3:41 AM

yo dont u think it would be a hella lot ez'r to just go spend the 150.00 on a real tattoo gun.thats all we need more stupid muthafuckerz like u fuckin up our youth no wander our youth iz so stupid now days


Posted by: Sandy Quentin on January 9, 2008 at 11:23 AM

What the hell is wrong with the guy using a little ingenuity to create something that I'm sure you don't have the intelligence to come up with! Believe me, in the hands of a talented artist even these homemade Tattoo Guns can make works of Art. Grow up and stop Bitchin' my man, this is America you know!!!


Posted by: Sandy Quentin on January 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM

What the hell is wrong with the guy using a little ingenuity to create something that I'm sure you don't have the intelligence to come up with! Believe me, in the hands of a talented artist even these homemade Tattoo Guns can make works of Art. Grow up and stop Bitchin' my man, this is America you know!!!


Posted by: Sandy Quentin on January 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM

What the hell is wrong with the guy using a little ingenuity to create something that I'm sure you don't have the intelligence to come up with! Believe me, in the hands of a talented artist even these homemade Tattoo Guns can make works of Art. Grow up and stop Bitchin' my man, this is America you know!!!


Posted by: an actual tattoo artist. on January 27, 2008 at 2:40 PM

Brilliant! The person advocating ingenuity can't figure out how to post a comment!! A "talented artist", tattoo artist anyway, would never in a million years use this "gun"!


Posted by: CONVICT on February 26, 2008 at 12:10 PM

i dont get how to make it ive tried and it dont work


Posted by: sicksicksick on March 12, 2008 at 11:40 AM

Elitist assholes.
I'm diggin the idea of your "gun" however.


Posted by: Tattoo Artist on March 22, 2009 at 3:44 PM

I can't believe people seriously trust that hunk o' crap to make tattoos on their skin.


Posted by: Tattoo Artist on March 22, 2009 at 3:48 PM

Dude. I'm 14, and I'm probably smarter than you are... so shut the f*** up about how "our youth iz so stupid now days." And don't forget to work on your grammar and spelling.


Posted by: Y0sh! on July 15, 2009 at 3:02 PM

stfu

have you seen some of the tatoos that people get in prison? some of the most talented tatoo artist are in prison you have to admit it takes skill to create some of the art they do with a cassete deck guitar string and a fucking ink pen or whatever else they have on hand if you dont like the post just ignore it


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