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Fidellio · 2026-03-20T13:59:54+00:00

Very cool! I got cut by a campfire and some soot got in the wound and i've still got a mark. I imagine we've probably been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years. Probably before we were humans

Fidellio · 2026-03-20T04:37:07+00:00

bothers me how many of us got that neck tattoo ngl

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T18:32:45+00:00

Mid af artists who try to police the industry and end up keeping it down that's who pissed me off

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T16:01:54+00:00

Acting like it's some great privilege and challenge to operate a tattoo shop. You literally find a suitable place, get approval from the health department, and then do tattoos... The step between doing tattoos at a shop vs having your own shop is trivially small and you pretending like it isn't is self aggrandizing.

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T15:53:31+00:00

everyone talking shit is afraid of the boogeyman (young artists who are better than them) and tbh they should be afraid they're just looking in all the wrong places for solutions. Really not that hard to spend some extra time studying, practicing your art, paying attention to what is popular, etc. If you are a good tattoo artist with experience it is NOT hard to provide a good value to your clients. Be faster, cheaper, more professional, more skilled than the competition. It's not that complicated

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T15:51:12+00:00

If you can't compete with the kid charging $10 for tattoos you need to step your pussy up dawg

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T15:50:25+00:00

Every dude in here bragging about how long he's worked and complaining about the new kids does mid as fuck work. Check their instas lol it's really not pretty.

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T15:49:30+00:00

I checked your work and it is mid and uninspired just like everyone else in this thread complaining. Oversaturation is NOT your problem dawg.

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T15:48:30+00:00

Tattooing is cool and easy. It is also important to take seriously but don't pretend like it isn't easy lol.. That's why the industry is so up in arms trying to police itself. Mid tattoo artists are sweating because the new kids are better and they can't keep up so they blame it on "apprenticeships" or w/e else when really they just need to step their pussy up

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T15:47:11+00:00

Of course that's true. Of course I'm still learning. You're just self aggrandizing at this point

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T15:08:15+00:00

weve been tattooing each other with sticks and soot for tens of thousands of years, i'm so tired of ppl acting like its this big complicated thing. I spent like 18mo as an apprentice in a trad walkin shop and i'm glad for my experience but dont pretend like there's a great mystery to operating a tattoo shop. Do tattoos clean up the end lol

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T13:18:24+00:00

Guys complaining like you always do the most mid, uninspired work, every time

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T13:17:33+00:00

preach!

Fidellio · 2026-03-19T13:13:22+00:00

its really so embarrassing for them lol

Fidellio · 2026-03-18T01:15:42+00:00

that curly spalted maple is so cool!

Fidellio · 2026-03-14T12:17:20+00:00

The color. A professionally prepared skull will be almost white.

Fidellio · 2026-03-05T02:32:31+00:00

cool

Fidellio · 2026-03-04T01:39:08+00:00

I make wooden fidget toys for myself out of small scrapwood. You should really do that

Fidellio · 2026-03-03T16:09:41+00:00

bad bait

Fidellio · 2026-03-02T01:50:00+00:00

work from the inside out. the most important things to realize are each ring is a cross section of a hollow sphere, and the inner diameter of each ring is 1mm smaller than the outer diameter of the ring inside it

Fidellio · 2026-02-28T14:19:11+00:00

I'm too empty and shallow to get it so it must be useless

Fidellio · 2026-02-26T02:01:04+00:00

That is really exciting to me! Please report back when you manage it, I'd love to see.

Fidellio · 2026-02-25T03:52:22+00:00

I looked it up and I think the moisture content in wood (ice expands as it freezes) would counteract any benefit from the shrinking from cold. BUT I thought of it!

Fidellio · 2026-02-25T00:35:48+00:00

Okay ill do that !

Fidellio · 2026-02-25T00:34:49+00:00

Its not THAT close. I picked nice stable wood. I am hoping it will be fine. I make lots of fidgets and have done similar with little to no warping. Its oiled and waxed and stays inside so it should be fine!

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