Machines by Nako and Amek

So the machines are finished that mike, sarah and tony were working on so i will add some pictures.. both are nice solid liners. Also got a chance to finish building a machine i started back a few months ago, pics below. Also will be building a black and grey machine this week for a friend and hopefully a few more for the holidays. 

In white is Tony's, Nako Machina...and Sarahs in gold and red.

 

And heres my machine..

David "Nipples" Knapp

Just got off the phone with Mr Knapp, hes been in the hospitol for 3 days for Pancreaitis.. doesnt look good. But hes lumber jack tough and i cant wait to see the dood when hes healthy. I texted him to ask if it was ok to post some of his new rotary stuff on the blogsite. I figure to us at H.O.P tattoo hes family and i need to put a post up of his work. If you havent met the guy i can just tell you that hes super helarious and is pretty smart.. he figured out how to design his own frames and actually doin the math for the geometry and knows how to trouble shoot a better machine and is always trying to better his machines and others.. if you cant afford a machine from the dood you should get a rebuild from him. anyhow heres some of his rotary stuff. 

Staying on the grind..

We managed to accomplish a few other things.. every ones got some little project going on ..Mike and myself are helping with two machines for Sarah and Tony at the shop.. everyone kinda wants to build em these days but i believe we all should. Tony took the liberty of helping me drill out the holes a bit and he put a nice coat of some semen white..mike will be doing the actual build of the project.. but we all put a little something into em.

 David Knapp has a few rotaries hes got going using different odds and ends from here and there. Hes been the guy who's taught me a bunch about them and we've worked on a few of each others projects hear and there. All i can say is screw getting using a cast frame with brass or bronze vices.. they truly suck, some are just fine though. I'm just glad i can tune most machines.  Aside from that Nako has managed to hook a brotha up with a sick little tatty. We will be having a video from that day as well that im gonna chop and screw. 

Any looking forward to Friday thank gawed.

thanks for ready my b.s.

 

Finally

Finally after 15 or more hours since i uploaded to youtube the video is finnally playing correctly. I enjoyed making it and looking forward to making a few more.. 

Miguel Audelo and Phil Rowland of HOUSE OF PAIN TATTOO INC..wmv

First Blog Posting..

Hey guys.. Im currently working on making this blogspot for House of Pain a successful and entertaining and hopefully you guys stay interested to see what we have in store for you the customer and of course the friends and family of the shop as well. But hey at least we finnally made it out of the stone age and we are getting connected with you. Geez i can barely find the spell check button.. but it is 3:24 am and so far i have been sitting on the couch since 2pm working on a quick youtube video of me and mikes work, and working on this blogspot and several other things here and there. I have alot of ideas about this site and i hope it soon smooths out. I feel like im on my first date and im trying to score that day.. hmm.. or on the magnum at cedar point for the first time and im just barely getting buckled in. Ahh yes nature, tattooing, rollercoasters, first dates and first blogs...and who knows maybe a first ulcer. Well the Youtube video would be posted right now.. but i think theyre staff is sleepin serrriously guys i uploaded it with poison the well as the music and then they say i gotta change the song due to copy rights etc... so i do.. and 3hrs later its still in arbitration and online on youtube with NO MUSIC>> lol see if you can find it .. if you wanna be sneaky or wait for my post tomorrow sometime. And i leave you with a picture of my collection of machines and some art...

tippy top is one of my handmades.. and next row from left to right is Veneno Irons, Juan Puente, Matt Shamah, David Nipples (knapp) and another David Nipples lol.. Then in orange is Dave Ritchie and also in white then kako from spain, nako copper hopper,  and next gen, last row is three seth ciferri machines in a row then Andy johnson and another Nako Machine. im missing a few in this shot but none the less on to a little piece i made..

Gnite and Cheers mate....

Phil..