Intro

New here, old rotary user. From Southern California. Did my first tattoo at 16, now 33. First machine was an original rotary, home made with a pen and guitar string...lol. been using stealth for a few years, but just bought the Vivace, well see how that goes.

Welcome! The vivace will kick stealths butt lol like a pissed off Jeff Jones:)

Thank you. Hope its well worth the money.

A well designed high quality machine is always worth the money, in every one of its millions of stitches it will perform like a craftsman's tool should. And if you should happen to not like it, it will be easy to trade for another great machine here.

Was originally gonna go with new bishop, but decided on Vivace 3.5mm RCA

Welcome to the forum! If you have any ?'s on the Vivace, hit me up.

Welcome to the forum-please share some techniques you have found that work well with the stealths.;)

Welcome!! Any pics of That home made machine with pen and guitar string??

pen and guitar string! thats' OG! ;)

Thank you all. And sorry no pics...that was an old school way of tattooing and over 15 years ago. Rotaries have come a long way. As for the stealth, i liked it, it ran ok for only a few months though, then id toss it, i would get them for just $50. I ran it at 6-7 for shading and 9 for lining or script.

Hello and welcome to the forum

Why toss it ? Buy a $20 motor from them. The parts are real cheap to replace and real easy to get real fast. I had one a while back and it ran like my neotat. Same type of hit and it ran just as smooth it just was not built as well but cheap ($ wise) parts that last a good while make up for it. It is built good just not as good as the neotats. I think they both have a some what similar motor also ( have not opened my neotat) but i know I seen motors in a few clones and they were the same motors i seen in a few $400 machines.

Welcome lol

that's funny. the first machine i built was 23 yrs ago. i was 14-15 and it was similar and i had 4 D batteries duct taped on top of it. oh boy...what a mess. lol

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