I personally don't buy cheap machines, cheap furniture, cheap cars, or cheap women. I feel you buy equipment based on your knowledge, and your check book. So being that, if you buy cheap tattoo machines in my opinion you are either cheap or don't know any better or both. I prefer good machines form established builders and not machines that are turned out from some factory. But to each is own. I have seen artists who use cheap machines, cheap ink, cheap needles and there is a difference. That difference is usually called experience, and that is worth more then any tattoo machine, but that experience tells me that I should not buy cheap shit.

So if you are a GOOD TATTOO artist, you have Good Equipment! If you work in a Good Studio, you better have Good Equipment. Also all that nonsense about a good artist with a cheap machine its still a cheap machine none the less, and I would never let them tattoo me with cheap shit.

If you make money tattooing buy quality equipment, because it will show one way or another.