gen 7 and soft clip

[gangstajay]

so for the past 2 weeks I have been using my gen 7 with the soft clip and have done line work,blk and gry,color..I have to say very nice.. I did this very large dragon today lots of scales and used a 3L and I was very impressed.. I did some color work with it today on a lady side and she was commenting how the skin wasn't red around the tattoo, So I just might have to buy a whip and see how it does. I'm def starting to like rotarys with "give" to them..I look forward to one of J carltons machine,tattooed pirates cutlass and a few others

[Alie K]

I think I only have one soft clip and maybe 6 hard clips floating around. Wonder why they send them that way? Maybe the hard clips are more popular?

[Kali]

I wouldnt worry one soft clip seems like enough? Ive bent one of mine around to see if i could make it hit softer and it did sweet FA. Polymide plastic is tuff stuff!

[bad_cupid]

So around what volts do you find yourself running your gen7 with the soft clip? i've been loving them recently and have been doing black and grey around 6.5-7 volts and it does it qoute smoth, but I've found in some of my healed tattoos that the black that seems quite saturated is not as dark as I would like. Just curious as to if I'm running it too light. I'm about to order a whip so being able to adjust give would probably help with that.

[gangstajay]

So around what volts do you find yourself running your gen7 with the soft clip? i've been loving them recently and have been doing black and grey around 6.5-7 volts and it does it qoute smoth, but I've found in some of my healed tattoos that the black that seems quite saturated is not as dark as I would like. Just curious as to if I'm running it too light. I'm about to order a whip so being able to adjust give would probably help with that.

I run my gen 7 around 10.0v maybe a lil higher..but that only affects the speed of the machine and your hand speed... but most people run there swashdrive at a min of 8v. but the whip is a great machine I just picked one up and Iam about to buy another one

[Alie K]

So around what volts do you find yourself running your gen7 with the soft clip? i've been loving them recently and have been doing black and grey around 6.5-7 volts and it does it qoute smoth, but I've found in some of my healed tattoos that the black that seems quite saturated is not as dark as I would like. Just curious as to if I'm running it too light. I'm about to order a whip so being able to adjust give would probably help with that.

Some inks don't heal as black as others. What are you using? Maybe that's a factor?

[bad_cupid]

Thanks guys. It's kind of funny because I continued to read on what others where running theirs at and saw that 8 and over seemed to be the going voltage. I did a few pieces yesterday and saw the difference. I'm kind of mad at myself for not experimenting with that more...it's not like I just started tattooing, lol. I love these machines tho (I have two gen 7s and my coils are collecting dust).

I ordered a whip and it should actually be arriving in the mail today. It has so many options. What are your favorite setting s for it with bg, color, lining? very curious.

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here is a tattoo I actually did with the swash.

[bad_cupid]

oh and I use Kuro Sumi for all of my black, so I'm thinking that my low voltage, which did take a bit to long to put in now that I think about it, was the problem. I'm glad there are forums like this to help me with this rotary transition. I'm definitely glad I made the switch tho.

[slicksteel]

try the double sumi black by them it goes in fast n dark and is not to thick that it drys up.

[gangstajay]

oh and I use Kuro Sumi for all of my black, so I'm thinking that my low voltage, which did take a bit to long to put in now that I think about it, was the problem. I'm glad there are forums like this to help me with this rotary transition. I'm definitely glad I made the switch tho.

hey bad cupid..i knew you worked at city of ink..I dig tukki and mya baily work..I stop by from time to time to see them