Chesticle!

Nicole from The Portsmouth Club is taking her chest piece like a champ. Not a word of complaint had been uttered. That's one tough chick! After photo to come....

Sunshine!

It's a sunny day here in Portland, finally! Our skele skull even needs his shades. Hope you're all wearing sunscreen on your tattoos!!!!

Back to Reno!

Gonzalo Delacruz is leaving us today, back to Reno but not before he left a great antique skeleton key tattoo on Jordan. We'll miss you Gonz!

Hot Rod Tattoo

Our friend Dennis Pittsenbarger from Hot Rod Magazine stopped by for a session with Tyler today.

Neighborhood Tattoos

Jeremey is tattooing our neighborhood girl Alisha today.. Classic rose

The T. Adams Liner

This is a short glimpse into the process of building a liner tattoo machine. I left out some of the more tedious operations like the fabrication of binders and A-bars and final assembly. I designed this machine to run with a long stroke but very quickly. Most fast liners have a long stroke and most long stroke liners are slow. I wanted the best of both worlds in my own tattooing. The one inch, eight wrap coils are stubby with a very simple tape covering, the frame is mild steel with a brass exterior coating for rust resistance. This is a no frills, industrial machine, all of its worth is in how it runs, not how it looks. I sell these to licensed tattooers "made to order". You can reach me at Grizzly Tattoo (503)-265-8146 Thanks for checking it out!

Land Rover Security Bars

In August 2010 my friends Steve and Lorna from Eureka, CA set out on a massive over-land journey. Their goal: to drive the length of Central and South America in their 1970 Land Rover. Concerned with safety, they asked me to build them a removable locking system that can be stored while driving and installed with little hardware. The pictures aren't very detailed, but we did it with two locks total and circled all the widows (including the windshield) with 1"1/4 square tubing. Now Rover can be alone without shaking in his boots. Here's a link to their travel blog: Slowayround.

Steve Installing the new 4 cylinder diesel motor September 2010.

After we finished the job.

The bars connect in the corners with two 1/2" stainless pins.

The pins are trapped in place with large black padlocks.

Puerto Arista, Mexico November 9th, 2010.

Here's a link to their latest journal entry: Slowayround.