I just wanted to introduce myself, I've been on the forum for about a week or two. My names Douglas Lamb, I work out of Tattoo 42 in Beaverton Oregon. I've been tattooing for about 5 years now. I tried a few of my coworkers rotarys awhile back, didn't like them and figured I'd be done with them. About a month ago I was talking to another artist about how well direct drives work for doing traditional tattoos so I decided to give them another go. I was pretty impressed with how well they worked and long story short I traded a few of my coils the next week. I've got a Greatwave and a Dickie Golden direct drive and a Benchmark. I haven't touched a coil for anything but line work since I got them and I've been pretty happy with the results. I'm still looking around for a good rotary that will pull nice clean single pass lines, I'm sure there's plenty of opinions on here about that though, I just need to spend some time doing research.

Anyways, hope that wasn't too long winded.

R/S
Douglas Lamb
Tattoo 42