This site was basically started for two reasons. (this is long, skip to the last paragraph in bold if you don't want to read the whole thing)


Back a few years ago if you where googling info on rotary tattoo machines there where few options. Basically Stigma, NeoTat and the Swiss Machine would show up. If you knew a guy who knew a guy you had an in and got something like a Ben Wight a Roy Richardson or a Mike Metaxa. There was little info on if your investment of $300 to almost $800 (or more if you joined the pnuema world order) was worth it. If you searched professional tattoo forums and asked questions about rotary machines you where sometimes given a lecture about them or told not to waste your money.

I remember having a conversation with Alie K about this four years ago when she first moved to Toronto and how just as guilty as most other tattooers she had bought a stealth as a way to test the waters without a sizable investment. Back then the stealth was nearly $200 and hers was purchased used from ebay for maybe $150 if I remember correctly? There was little info online at the time about work done with the higher end machines from normal tattooers that just did nice work with them or how they achieved the work they did. She was also making maybe 300$ a week at the time first relocating to a new city.

When the machine arrived it took a little time to get 100% comfortable with adding it to the daily routine particularly with her employers and co workers and many other working professional tattooers in her new circle of friends poking fun at her for using the little black box. As the machine quickly became a part of her daily routine she became mildly obsessed with them and wanted to start a blog about them so there could be info on the internet for others to find. Like many great ideas this got put on the back burner cause life and work took up too much time to be just publishing a blog that not many people would really care about.

Fast forward a year later and Rotary Machines are starting to gain popularity and there is a little more info online and there is more cheap knock offs showing up everywhere and more people building this style of machine.

The blog seemed like a waste of time but a forum might be a good way to create a community as well as an exchange of information and a way to put people's minds at ease regarding the investment into a good quality machine they are absolutely not familiar with.

Fast forward to now and most of the information people are finding on good rotary machines is located HERE! With hundreds of reviews from real working professionals that will not regret for a second the investment they made in a good quality machine.

So basically there will always be someone who wants to make fun of rotary machines. Today its harder to hear them over the folks talking about how happy they are they added at least one to the daily routine. Buying cheap machines is still your choice, cant force anyone to buy one thing over another. If you are just interested in testing the waters there is so much unsolicited information right legitimately by real professionals who hope you will buy what they did. There is also a huge active classifieds section on here where you might be able to pick up a professionally regarded build for a song. If you don't like what you invested in you will usually find someone will take it from you in trade for something they did not like. The machine you are asking about I doubt would even be able to be given away on here. This community was founded partially to support good builders and good business practices. Asking for reviews from others on a machine that is a cheap knock off of a well respected member of this community might not get you the answers you are looking for.

Also I doubt the fact that they named this machine Killer Liner is anything more than a clever name they are hoping will convince people that it will make them better at lining.