No, but it's funny you say that. The story I was told is he had worked with Brad, the EST builder, idk how long ago when he started building since Brad had good builder set up. Its my understanding they're machines are quite similar as being a shared vision on their take of a tattoo machine but the story is better from him. Not second hand from me.
I met just about everyone in the tattoo circles, including Brad, and actually owned 3 of his machines. 1 EST I still use and 2 old models I didn't really like that I no longer have. Though I have to admit while I loved my EST one, it ran way cleaner once Dfie respringed it and etc.
Dfie does rebuilds too, in case anyone is interested.
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