Intro

[vito]

New here, old rotary user. From Southern California. Did my first tattoo at 16, now 33. First machine was an original rotary, home made with a pen and guitar string...lol. been using stealth for a few years, but just bought the Vivace, well see how that goes.

[Sage Oz]

Welcome! The vivace will kick stealths butt lol like a pissed off Jeff Jones:)

[vito]

Thank you. Hope its well worth the money.

[Sage Oz]

A well designed high quality machine is always worth the money, in every one of its millions of stitches it will perform like a craftsman's tool should. And if you should happen to not like it, it will be easy to trade for another great machine here.

[vito]

Was originally gonna go with new bishop, but decided on Vivace 3.5mm RCA

[Brian Russell]

Welcome to the forum! If you have any ?'s on the Vivace, hit me up.

[slicksteel]

Welcome to the forum-please share some techniques you have found that work well with the stealths.;)

[Roman HM tattoomachines]

Welcome!! Any pics of That home made machine with pen and guitar string??

[Administrator]

pen and guitar string! thats' OG! ;)

[vito]

Thank you all. And sorry no pics...that was an old school way of tattooing and over 15 years ago. Rotaries have come a long way. As for the stealth, i liked it, it ran ok for only a few months though, then id toss it, i would get them for just $50. I ran it at 6-7 for shading and 9 for lining or script.

[Magnu]

Hello and welcome to the forum

[Neo]

Why toss it ? Buy a $20 motor from them. The parts are real cheap to replace and real easy to get real fast. I had one a while back and it ran like my neotat. Same type of hit and it ran just as smooth it just was not built as well but cheap ($ wise) parts that last a good while make up for it. It is built good just not as good as the neotats. I think they both have a some what similar motor also ( have not opened my neotat) but i know I seen motors in a few clones and they were the same motors i seen in a few $400 machines.

Welcome lol

[Dreviltattoo]

that's funny. the first machine i built was 23 yrs ago. i was 14-15 and it was similar and i had 4 D batteries duct taped on top of it. oh boy...what a mess. lol

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