paulo cruzes rotaries

[Alie K]

It's unfortunate when someone copies something so blatantly. I'll admit, I've made some "OMG, have you seen this?" posts of my own. Sometimes, something upsets me, and I like some feedback from people I feel will understand (you guys). I don't like when I see threads go awry, though. I don't like seeing insults being hurled, accusations being made - you know the deal.

I agree with with those that find it unfortunate when someone takes another person's hard work and design, duplicates it, and takes credit for it being the 'one and only'. Sure, we've all seen machines made by guys who use a Walker frame, or a Bulldog or anything else for that matter. Nobody gets all up in their shit for not designing their own frames. There may be an argument there, maybe not. It's nice to know that there are people who can recognize the original, and don't support the copycats. I'm not completely innocent of this myself. My introduction to rotaries was a Stealth. I won an ebay bid that included 4 or 5 of them among a bunch of other stuff (some random frames and spare parts). I knew it was a copy of a Swiss machine, but I had never used a rotary before, didn't know anyone else who used them, and didn't want to throw a bunch of money at something I would be experimenting with. I passed them out to my friends, we played around with them, and decided that rotaries were interesting, and bought some "real" ones. Of course, my interest in them got a little obsessive, so I got some help and made a forum so I could talk to other people who were "pro-rotary".

I think at this point of the thread, we're beating a dead horse, so to say, about this dude and his machine. I can totally understand why Inkslingers decided to remove some posts he made. People do that occasionally. I wish they didn't at times, because it can make a thread confusing, but if someone made a post, and later decided that what they wrote wasn't really what they wanted to say because perhaps, their anger got a hold of their fingers and "things were typed", it's their prerogative.

That being said, I think we're done here. Let's not make any more posts about this dude, ok? I don't want to have to delete future threads that complain about him specifically, and I myself my try to curb my own posts about "complainy things". Nothing wrong with rants, but maybe we all can rant about other things, like ridiculous clients who think we owe them the world because our tattoo machines are actually magic wands and we are all a bunch of lying bitches and bastards who won't let them into the secret magical circle, and less about machine rip-off artists and "ink masters" who do work stolen (badly) from other artists and claim it as their own. I say we leave that stuff for facebook.

So, who's done some rad paintings or drawing in their spare time?! I love to see that stuff!!

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