Ronin

By dealer, did you mean AD or a "Collector" preferred dealer here? (Guessing the former based on 1665 comment).

I would think the Admin team should inquire if we have dealer asking for extraneous personally identifiable information.

No.

My general rule is no one sees my ID, except:

Law Enforcement

Medical Professionals

MY Bank / lenders.

(when younger) the door man at the bar/club/liquor store.

I am sure it is benign, and even ok to 'flash' your ID with certain CC purchases in high fraud areas. But 'scan' of it. NO!

Great minds think alike:

I cut my musical teeth in the late 70s and early 80s when JBL 4310s and Magnaplanars, Klipsch horns and Dahlquist and Speakerlab ruled the day.

You guys are making me jealous-- I miss my old 'tube amp' and Technics 1200 turntable.. Kicking myself for selling all my vinyl too.

Good stuff. Thanks.

Thanks for getting back to us on this.

Curious, did they include various covers/tips? (i.e. Foam, Rubber, different sizes). Will they stay in, while pulling your helmet over your ears? (this was the fun part for me, again the Foam tips seem to help)

Since you are going portable, do you rip your music as loss-less? (Flak or Apple?)

Thanks,

Komadori would be the more correct phonetic romanization, you are correct.

On second thought, keep your Rolex.

Are you on Tattoodles.com for your peer reviews? He's a local tattoo artist that has made a name for himself amongst tattoo artists.

by the way when doing kanji characters, be VERY careful in replicating them. make sure you get a bonafide chinese dude to read over your proof first before doing the work.

His characters are actually Japanese Hiragana and not Kanji. The good news, I was able to read them and translate correctly.

But I know what you mean. I wonder how many people are running around with the Kanji equivalent of "Kick Me" tattoo'd on them.

Yes Boys, time to sell your Rolex's.

Like the VW New Beetle, Rolex is officially a Girlie Watch.

The Date Window / Date Wheel look great. What DW did you use? Also, what hands did you use?

Hey Ronin, are you familiar with Kore Flatmo? His work is the best I've ever seen.

Ohhh yeah!

Your comment on the line work really confuses me though, as I would have thought precision and consistency of the lines, is one of the key principles of a well applied tattoo...

It is more of a 'feeling'. Like analog music from a tube amp -vs- a MP3 on a iPod.

Take your Bamboo sketch for example.

The growth rings are all very much the same, as are the leafs. The leafs might as well be copy-n-pasted. Don't get me wrong it is a good drawing, and most people wish they could sit down and draw that. It does look a little more "Comic Book / Cartoon" bound, than organic lifelike. Which is fine if that is "your style". This is where "Art" gets subjective.

Organic, no two leafs are identical. Again, personal preference.

Side note, are you trying to spell Komatori with your Hiragana? English for Robin?

My Beater:

As someone with some ink, and friend of 3 working Tattoo Artists-- it is not horrible, but it does show a little lack of experience IMHO. Clearly still in the apprentice stage. ???

Let me give perhaps some constructive criticism.

*The above photos look very digital or mono to me. To be more specific, the lines look traced/too precise and all the same width.

*Shading (on colored pieces). Consider light source. Imagine a real life flower/anchor/etc, then visualize how light would reflect across it, and from where it would be shining from.

**Shading -- I simply can not stress this enough. Shading is mastery. It is perhaps the first thing I look at when 'judging' a tattoo. A sign of quality. Even an all black tattoo can be blended/feathered in. Use different gauge needles, and colors.

Your Lotus Flower looks like you used 2 colors (could be monitor/photo) and simply varied intensity -vs- 3, 4, 5 colors blending together.

Here is a Lotus Flower with some nice blending and shading:

This flower has what looks like Red, Orange, Yellow, Purple and base flesh + black? outline

Incomplete, but--

Similar here, the dark bottoms of the petal where light would not get down to; black, purple, yellow, orange. Notice how round one of shading the scales takes into consideration how light would reflect-- tail higher toward imaginary light source, and possibly the head as it would arch up.

Study, Study, Study, Practice, Practice, Practice. Rome was not built in a day.

Moral to this story is: don’t leave the party early unless you are taking a hottest blond!

Love it! ..... edit to add: blond, redhead, brunette ... don't want to discriminate.

Yobokies has some kick a$$ stuff.

Check out his PhotoBucket for more stuff: http://www.yobokies.com/

Thanks to him, I was able to build this:

Saturday:

I really like this. What model?

I have a similar build in progress. You may want to simply opt for a gen crown and tube. I picked up a GEN crown/tube off eBay for $55.00. Just make sure it is not a tube/crown for 5.3-to-6mm version.

Did you really save pictures of members girlfriends???

Not on purpose. All those I posted actually came off a "Scam Site" that was selling Rep's IIRC. LOL.

From my HARD Dirve:

Enjoy:

Beware the "REPS" / Fakes.

What I found, when I did a cross country trip on my BMW GS,-- use the FOAM TIPS for maximum noise isolation. (I used Shures back then)

Also, not sure how much you 'vote' with your wallet, but google "monster cable lawsuits bullies". In short, they sue anyone with "Monster" in their name. From Auto Repair shops, to websites.

However, there is no question the MDTs and even the Monster Dr. Dre Beats are excellent products.

....As for me, I believe my "Big Crown" itch will be scratched by my MKII Kingston, once I get it. It's not a Rolex, but it's a really nice watch, and I know it's well put together.

This is exactly what I am hoping for as well. None the less, sorry to hear about the project.