Swiss machine/german evolution type on Ebay.

[Sage Oz]

I apologize if you feel my opinions cause offense to you my intent is not too argue with you but only to express my opinion as a concerned artist. I joke a lot but I take tattooing seriously and want to evolve as an artist and like to see the rest of the industry that deserves it by proof of the quality and artistry of their work evolve as well. Those that are talented and convicted enough in their efforts will do well. Initial investment in quality supplies is vastly important and necessary because of the medium of human skin. Using cheaper tools to do what we do seems crazy to me now. The coil
machines I learned on in the 90's while current are so antiquated and primative in their design compared to the newest crop of innovations and refinements. These are the tools that are responsible for transforming our intent into existence all day everyday. $400 over a 10year lifespan is pretty cheap per day, less than 1 disposable tube. Making our equipment cheaper only makes it way to easy for people that enter our industry and under-appreciate the value of quality and steal work from deserving artists and make clients permanently less as happy as they could be with lesser tattoos that may not heal as fast or well as they could. If you're too cheap to spend enough for quality equipment then find a cheaper job to do. Tattooing no matter who you are or where you live is damn expensive to do if done to high standards! Plus you can always sell it for close to its cost so invest in a quality machine please if you're gonna do it do it well!!!!!!

[Deakon]

I apologize if you feel my opinions cause offense to you my intent is not too argue with you but only to express my opinion as a concerned artist. I joke a lot but I take tattooing seriously and want to evolve as an artist and like to see the rest of the industry that deserves it by proof of the quality and artistry of their work evolve as well. Those that are talented and convicted enough in their efforts will do well. Initial investment in quality supplies is vastly important and necessary because of the medium of human skin. Using cheaper tools to do what we do seems crazy to me now. The coil
machines I learned on in the 90's while current are so antiquated and primative in their design compared to the newest crop of innovations and refinements. These are the tools that are responsible for transforming our intent into existence all day everyday. $400 over a 10year lifespan is pretty cheap per day, less than 1 disposable tube. Making our equipment cheaper only makes it way to easy for people that enter our industry and under-appreciate the value of quality and steal work from deserving artists and make clients permanently less as happy as they could be with lesser tattoos that may not heal as fast or well as they could. If you're too cheap to spend enough for quality equipment then find a cheaper job to do. Tattooing no matter who you are or where you live is damn expensive to do if done to high standards! Plus you can always sell it for close to its cost so invest in a quality machine please if you're gonna do it do it well!!!!!!

Woah there! What you are saying is in effect "all machines should be expensive to stop people who dont care enough from tattooing". In every industry there are low end, mid range and top range products, people want choice. We sell a lot of machines to coil users wanting to step into the rotary world who would previously bought a stealth for example.
Just because you might buy a dragonfly doesn't mean you are going to be a better artist or turn into one overnight! Not to mention the fact that you are implying our machines make shoddy tattoos that heal badly. I do hope you have tried a German Evolution pretty extensively before trying to destroying its reputation!