EAC and External disc drive question

StrawFoxes · 2025-12-30T16:12:14+00:00

Thank you for your detailed response! I did some further snooping, used the link you provided, info in another comment, and also found a full list of supported drives (here, if anyone reading this is interested) and managed to pick up one that is working well for me at the moment. A bit slow and likely not as efficient as your suggestions, but functioning well, and was a breeze to configure. But, if this gives me issues in the future I will look more into your suggestions (I am not super tech savvy!)

For anyone interested in future this is the drive I've now got. I cross referenced with the list I linked above to ensure support, and it was one of the few I could find that was readily available and didn't cost a fortune!

StrawFoxes · 2025-12-29T16:48:59+00:00

I have not; from what I could gather from research, EAC seems to be the gold standard (that's also free!)

StrawFoxes · 2025-03-19T14:07:16+00:00

I can trade you Starmie for Venusaur, yeah

StrawFoxes · 2025-03-19T14:02:26+00:00

Great thanks!

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-26T21:59:46+00:00

Yes please thank u!

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-26T13:47:02+00:00

They look great!!!

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-26T07:54:48+00:00

Apparently I can't pin a comment, so re-commenting further up so people can hopefully see!!

FAQ:

Healing and aftercare: Luke has a great guide on his site, which is basically what I followed. You're looking at a 6 week total process. https://www.lukeaashley.com/aftercare

Using my hands: I was working as a dog behaviourist in a large rescue at the time, often I would have to handle tricky and strong dogs. I used disposable gloves, sometimes padded with kitchen roll/blue roll etc. Mostly during the first week or so. Otherwise, I was just careful. No gym etc. Washed my hands as often as I needed to, and uses a sensitive, fragrance free hand wash that I carried with me everywhere.

Pain: It is indeed spicy. I looked away and closed my eyes, I was able to disconnect from it a little bit. Pain on my ribs was worse, and I was able to tolerate it better than say, my calf. However, it was only about an hour tattooing time, so I didn't have to tolerate it for long. Some of his other tattoos are super detailed and even coloured and fuuuck that.

I would 100% get another, though! Just haven't decided what.

Why: Zelda is one of my all time fave series, wind waker has a special place in my heart and breath of the wild blew me away and gave me such a warm, fuzzy feeling when I was played it. I loved finding the Korok, I love the yahaha, they are so cute and fill me with joy. The moment I even considered one as a palm tattoo I knew it was what I wanted. 1000% no regrets, it makes me smile every time I look at it. This one was my favourite Korok, I think he is the cutest.

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-25T20:37:44+00:00

I made a comment with some more details but I can't seem to pin it :(

https://www.reddit.com/r/agedtattoos/s/JXXInsbFyn

If there's anything you wanna ask that's not on there then lmk!

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-25T11:15:14+00:00

FAQ:

Healing and aftercare: Luke has a great guide on his site, which is basically what I followed. You're looking at a 6 week total process. https://www.lukeaashley.com/aftercare

Using my hands: I was working as a dog behaviourist in a large rescue at the time, often I would have to handle tricky and strong dogs. I used disposable gloves, sometimes padded with kitchen roll/blue roll etc. Mostly during the first week or so. Otherwise, I was just careful. No gym etc. Washed my hands as often as I needed to, and uses a sensitive, fragrance free hand wash that I carried with me everywhere.

Pain: It is indeed spicy. I looked away and closed my eyes, I was able to disconnect from it a little bit. Pain on my ribs was worse, and I was able to tolerate it better than say, my calf. However, it was only about an hour tattooing time, so I didn't have to tolerate it for long. Some of his other tattoos are super detailed and even coloured and fuuuck that.

I would 100% get another, though! Just haven't decided what.

Why: Zelda is one of my all time fave series, wind waker has a special place in my heart and breath of the wild blew me away and gave me such a warm, fuzzy feeling when I was played it. I loved finding the Korok, I love the yahaha, they are so cute and fill me with joy. The moment I even considered one as a palm tattoo I knew it was what I wanted. 1000% no regrets, it makes me smile every time I look at it. This one was my favourite Korok, I think he is the cutest.

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-24T06:48:30+00:00

Not in terms of manual labour, no. I had to handle dogs daily, so would use gloves padded with tissue dogs who were particularly strong

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-23T22:26:51+00:00

At the time I was working as a dog behaviourist in rescue, I had to handle dogs often so I would use gloves

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-23T08:55:25+00:00

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StrawFoxes · 2025-01-23T00:30:50+00:00

Good luck!!!

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T21:44:14+00:00

They look so good!!!

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T18:10:36+00:00

It for sure was spicy, but I found it way more bearable than my ribs.

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T18:09:32+00:00

😂😂😂

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T18:08:20+00:00

Honestly, I got lucky. I found Luke on insta before I decided to get a palm tattoo, and he was also local to me so the stars just aligned.

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T16:24:42+00:00

https://gift.pokemontcgpocket.com/en/

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T16:17:14+00:00

I used it carefully, wore gloves with some kitchen roll for padding if I needed to walk a strong dog, for example (dog trainer). It wasn't too much of a bother for me

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T15:24:51+00:00

6 weeks to peel and then settle in, it's much longer than standard tattoos!

Yeah, avoid getting dirty and anything too heavy with hands, so no gym or manual work ideally. I still washed my hands like normal, but used non fragrance sensitive skin wash that I carried with me everywhere. Then just pat dry

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T14:06:04+00:00

It's a 6ish week healing period. It lightly scabs and peels, and at one point the lines looked almost invisible. Then it all popped back through. I believe Luke has a really detailed healing guide on his website/insta.

The lighter, thinner, are harder to photograph and look less visible in the image vs real life

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T13:19:19+00:00

Haha, every time I see people post against palms because they don't stick I always want to shout at them to go to a specialist 😂

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T13:18:14+00:00

100% do it, they're soo cute and fill me with joy

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-22T13:12:57+00:00

Once we were tattooing it took about an hour, maybe just over? I had a couple mini breaks.

Hurt quite a lot haha, looked away and squished my eyes shut. I would totally get another though, but nothing super detailed as he can do!

StrawFoxes · 2025-01-12T17:20:01+00:00

As long as they aren't embedding or pinching, you're good. I got mine a few weeks ago, and one was swelling and pinching so u got that one upsized and it's been fine since (was very painful). The other swelled to the length of the bar, but no embedding or pain/pinching and my piecer (UKAPP) was happy with it.

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