Dream of becoming eminent tattoo casesmaster, but do not know where to start and where to get the necessary equipment, which, moreover, is worth big money? Do not be sad about this, because there is a fairly affordable way to make a tattoo machine itself. It will be a rotary-type device. To make it, you will need the following simple “parts”: a variable-voltage power supply unit, the thinnest guitar string, a motor from an old cassette recorder or player with a pair of wires, a gear from the same, a small sleeve, an ordinary gel pen, a piece of plastic tube.
So, a tattoo machine with your own handsassumes, first of all, the presence of the case. Actually, this is what you will hold in your hand when stuffing tattoos. Making it to start and we will. To do this, take the handle, remove the core from it (we don’t throw it away, we need it) and cut it from the back by about a third. In the nose of the handle, on the side, you can make a small hole with a knife (about 5mm) to make it more convenient to type the mascara. We clean the edges of the hole with a small file so that small sawdust does not get into the wound.
The next step is how to make a typewriter fortattoos, will be making a guide needle. It is made from the rod of the same handle. It also needs to be cut to body length and remove paint. Next, remove the spout from the rod, take a needle and squeeze the ball from the inside. This is necessary so that the string can move. If the spout is too narrow, it needs to be expanded, with the tip of the file: the string should not get stuck anywhere and cling. After all the parts are ready, we insert the tip of the rod to its rightful place, and the rod itself into the handle. Housing ready.
Continuing the theme of how to make a tattoo machine,we will manufacture the needle from the guitar string. Its length should be calculated so that the tip with which the tattoo will be printed, always, in any position, protrudes from the handle. When the string is retracted, that is, inside the body, its “needle” should look out at 0.5-1 mm. In the "front position" 1.5-2 mm is enough. At the opposite end of the string will need to make a loop. Therefore, in order not to be mistaken in the calculations, insert the string into the rod, which, in turn, place in the body of the handle. And so that the string was flat, did not bend or fold, it can be pre-tensioned and well baked on the fire.
At this stage, leave everything as is, andproceed to the next step. How to make a tattoo machine? Next, we need to attach a motor. To do this, take a piece of plastic tube prepared in advance (it will serve as a motor holder) and cut it lengthwise into two parts. After that, take each half in turn and cut off a longitudinal piece of several centimeters from it. Determine the length of the eye, because this cropped area when bending should cover the motor by about a third. Each trimmed part, gently heating on the fire, bend, rounding. Insert a motor into these rounded halves (wiring it should go outside). A handle is inserted into the groove of the cut tube (untouched part) formed below the motor. All this beauty is tightly wrapped with tape or tightened with clamps. Next, we put on the pin of the motor gear, which will serve as a kind of crankshaft, moving the needle back and forth. It should sit very tightly and not scroll. Next, take the sleeve: it will be wearing a loop of the string, which must also sit tight enough. We fuse the sleeve into the plastic gear, closer to the center, but so that when scrolling, the needle in any case does not enter the handle completely.
The final step in how to make a tattoo machine, will be connecting the motor wiring to the power supply wiring. We try to connect it to the outlet. Must earn.
