How to make a tattoo machine out of nothing?

Dream to become a famous tattoo artist, but do not know where to start and where to get the necessary equipment, which, moreover, is worthless money? Do not be sad about this, because there is a fairly affordable way how to make a car tattoo his own hand. It will be a rotary type device. To make it, you need the following simple "parts": a power supply with variable voltage, the thinnest guitar string, a motor from an old cassette tape recorder or a player with a pair of wires, a gear therefrom, a small sleeve, an ordinary gel pen, a piece of a plastic tube.

So, the tattoo machine with its own hands assumes, first of all, the presence of the body. Actually, this is what you will keep in your hand while tattooing. To make it for the beginning, let's do it. To do this, we take the handle, take out the rod (we do not throw it away, it is needed) and cut it by about a third from the back part. In the tip of the handle, from the side, you can make a small hole (about 5 mm) with a knife, so that it would be more convenient to type mascara. With a small file, we clean the edges of the hole so that fine sawdust does not fall into the wound.

The next step, how to make a tattoo machine, will be making a guiding needle. It is made from the rod of the same handle. It also needs to be cut to the length of the body and remove the paint. Next, take out the spout from the stem, take the needle and squeeze it out from inside the ball. This is necessary for the string to move. If the spout is too narrow, it needs to be expanded by pressing the tip with a file: the string should not get stuck anywhere and cling to anything. After all the details are ready, insert the spout of the rod into its rightful place, and the rod itself into the handle. The case is ready.

In the continuation of the topic, how to make a tattoo machine, let's make a needle from a guitar string. Its length should be calculated so that the tip, which will be tattooed, always, in any position, protruded from the handle. When the string is retracted, that is, inside the case, its "needle" should look 0.5-1 mm. In the "forward position" 1.5-2 mm is enough. At the opposite end of the string you will need to make a loop. Therefore, in order not to make a mistake in the calculations, insert the string into the rod, which, in turn, is placed in the handle body. And that the string was flat, did not bend or fold, it can be pre-tensioned and well-burned on fire.

At this stage, we leave everything as is, and proceed to the next step. How to make a tattoo machine? Next, we need to attach the motor. To do this, take a piece of pre-prepared plastic tube (it will serve as the motor holder) and cut it along into two parts. After this, take in turn each half and cut off from it a longitudinal piece a few centimeters long. The length is determined by eye, for this trimmed area should bend the motor approximately by one third when bending. Each clipped part, gently warming up on fire, bends, rounding. In these rounded halves we insert the motor (its wiring should go out). In the lower part of the motor, a groove from the cut pipe (untwisted part) is inserted into the handle. All this beauty is densely wrapped in an insulating tape or pulled together by clamps. Then we put on the motor pin the gear, which will serve as a kind of crankshaft, moving the needle back and forth. She should sit very tightly and do not scroll. Next, take the bushing: it will be put on the eyelet of the string, which should also sit tight enough. We fuse the bushing into the plastic gear, closer to the center, but so that when you scroll the needle in any case does not enter the handle completely.

The final stage of how to make a tattoo machine, will be the wiring of the motor to the wiring of the power unit. We try to connect it to the socket. Should earn.