before i write down my thoughts i want to make clear that i don`t want to offend any builder here ( thats why i dont write any names or brands) and i also hate the chinese rip off behaviour.
i paid a lot of big bucks to try out machines from top tattoo artists and famous builders for the last 20 years. most of the machines i bought, ended in a box after doing two or three tattoos with it, because they just didn`t suit my working style or even worse but very common, they ran like crap. for example i bought two rotarys in april from a well known builder ( costs for one is 400 euro excl. tax). they worked so good. i could do lines with them, like with no machine before. since one week or so, they run like shit. they change speed without even touching the skin and need 10 volt instead of 8 volt before. so they didn`t even ran good for one month !!! i super lubed them and took care of them and everything. in may i bought two other very famous and highly recommended rotarys from another builder to replace them ( each one of them is 400 euros excl. tax again) just to find out they run way to soft and fast for my liking. i cant imagine how someone can do a decent tattoo with it. sometimes when i buy machines, even machines of the same modell run totaly different. i wouldn´t mind if that machines only would cost 150-200 euro each, but guys you are charging the big bucks nowadays, so support us with machines that run steady, that have no ink creeping issues, that run at a usuable force, speed and stroke, where the back binder doesn`t fall of after a week and so on and so on. i think if some of you builders would charge half the price, you could still sell them with a good profit and the chinese would be out of business. just my two cents, but who am i ...