mandolin tattoos

[fretbored]

Got my first tattoo yesterday afternoon and opted for a good old F5 flowerpot on my left side calf:





The shading is already healing out to a nice fade to grey...

[Tina MBee]

nice! I have the flowerpot on my arm. it's posted somewhere in this thread

[MikeEdgerton]

nice! I have the flowerpot on my arm. it's posted somewhere in this thread

Your Flower Pot is here.

[Pete Braccio]

Time to update the progress on my piece. Here's where it stands now. It's been in the "mostly done" stage for a bit.

Pete

[Randi Gormley]

Some astounding work, that.

[Cheryl Watson]

Pete, that is awesome artwork and you must have a very high tolerance for pain!

[Pete Braccio]

it's been a bit cathartic having this work done. I actually started the tattoo almost six months ago and, 15 sessions (I think) later, it is ALMOST done. I also found that it is way hard to photograph. Here are two more of the backish side.

Pete

[billkilpatrick]

unsubscribing ... can't take it

[Bertram Henze]

I am kind of glad my body is all hairy so I never was even tempted to try this.

[Tina MBee]

that is just amazing! love the cats =^,,^=

[rgray]

Some good mandolin in this song about tattoos by Dropkick Murphys.

[Londy]

OMG, this thread is hilarious...

[Shanachie]

I was looking through this thread and saw that a lot of folks have tattoos of the headstock inlay flowerpots. Does anyone know the backstory on the mandolin flowerpot designs? I did a Google search and didn't see and answer. Just curious. Why a flowerpot?

[Londy]

Good question Shanachie. I have a Collings... no fun logo

[Mandolin-Tele]

http://www.google.com/search?q=mando...w=1093&bih=496

[JeffD]

Some good mandolin in this song about tattoos by Dropkick Murphys.

I have not been a big fan of DM, but that one, wow, I really liked that.

[pumpdogg]

Just got this one yesterday. A talented artist named Alexis did it at a tattoo convention I was at this past weekend. She was the runner-up on season 1 of T.V.'s "Best Ink"

[azflyman]

Just got this one yesterday. A talented artist named Alexis did it at a tattoo convention I was at this past weekend. She was the runner-up on season 1 of T.V.'s "Best Ink"

Very nice! Portraits are rough on skin, I bet you were feelin' that down by the wrist.

[pumpdogg]

Very nice! Portraits are rough on skin, I bet you were feelin' that down by the wrist.

You know what they say......"If it didn't hurt, every ##### would have one"! It's healed now, post another pic soon.

[Wolfmanbob]

No, but my mandolin got a people tattoo on her neck.

[pumpdogg]

Big Mon is pretty much all healed up now but i think he may be concerned about the future of bluegrass! Try to post a healed pic soon. In the meantime, here is the original that I went off of.

[homebrewguru]

Love it.

[rbmando]

[belbein]

I don't get it. Why would a skeleton need to use a pick?

[Scott Tichenor]

rbmando, brilliant!

belbein, if you must ask, because that's the way Big Mon did it!