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Showing posts with label types of tattoo machines. Show all posts

Information about Types of Tattoo Needles

In the modern era of tattooing the tools and products used in tattoo creation takes most important role. The tattoo needle is one of the products used in tattooing. There are various types of tattoo needles available in the market, depending upon the tattoo requirements the exact needle used for that particular tattoo.

Round Liner Tattoo Needles: These types of round linear tattoo needles are particularly used for outlining purpose;it gives a proper tattoo outline. The main advantages of these needles are it results in sharper lines with less skin contact.

Bugpin Round Liners: These types of needles are used for super-tight outlining and fine detail work. These are made-up of set of 3-4 needles on the bar with 4mm taper to create sharper lines.


Round Shader Tattoo Needles: These tattoo needles are especially used in small skin areas for effective shading, filling colors, etc. These needles allow for more skin contact which results in extra deposition of pigment.



Flat Shader Tattoo Needles: These needles are particularly used for creating geometric shapes, straight lines, lettering, and shading. Flate Shader needles made-up of 4-9 needles on a bar with 2mm taper for deposition of more pigment.

Magnum Tattoo Needles: Especially use for large area of skin and coloring tattoo. These are made with 5-15 needles on the bar with short 2mm taper to cover greater skin contact for allowing the great amount of pigments.

Bugpin Magnum Shader Tattoo Needles: Invented for smooth filling with fast speed whenever soft blending is needed. It is made up of 5-17 needles, and short 2mm taper for more skin contact.

Double Stack Magnum Tattoo Needles: This type of needles set up with one row of needles stack upon another to make two rows and used for color packing or filling larger areas of skin.


Curved Magnum Tattoo Needles: In these types of needles, the outer needles are set shorter than the inside ones to create a curved shape. More useful for achieving soft edges when filling and shading. It is made up of 5-15 needles on the bar with a short 2mm taper for releasing more pigment.




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Tattoo Machine and Its Different Types


A tattoo machine is a device which is used for a permanent marking of the indelible ink into the skin.  Modern tattoo machines are made up of electromagnetic coils, which move an armature bar up and down in order to push ink into the skin with the help of the needle.

There are many types of tattoo machines, linear and shader tattoo machines are the most common type of machines. Many more types are covered below.

Rotary tattoo machine: This type of machine invented by Manfred Kohrs of Germany in 1978. This is based on rotary technology and modified by tattoo artists through the years. Basically, an electric motor is used to drive the needle.

Coil tattoo machine: This is the most common type of tattoo machine. It is made up of an electromagnetic circuit to move the needle up and down. There are many variations in that from single-coiled machines to triple-coiled machines. These machines are made up of various sizes and different materials. All among coil tattoo machines Dual-tattoo machines are considered as standard.

Liner tattoo machine: The liner tattoo machine used to lay ink in the skin in a single shot to create a dominant line.

Shader tattoo machine:  It is basically used to shade dark or equivalent to black ink. The saturation level of shader tattoo machine is low so other colors also used in this type of machine.

Pneumatic tattoo machine:  It was invented by tattoo artist Carson Hill in 2000. Pneumatic tattoo machine powered by an air compressor, and its weight is very light.The pressurized air is used to drive the needles up and down.