Been meaning to update…I’ve been super busy on my truck this week. I installed a solenoid and switch in my truck on the driver side (will do passenger side soon), shaved the door handles on both sides, shaved the plastic cap on the tailgate (the bolt holes that where left over), and removed all side molding and badges. I also installed my new headlights that Salvador Olazaba hooked me up with. They are stock headlights that where opened and painted white inside instead of the black rim it once had. The now white corners still glow amber when on, awesomeness…

The truck is going to stay primered in those spots until I finish the tailgate, then my friend James Pecor is going to repaint them white. My grille is still off too because I’m still working like a slave to finish it. It’s taking only about 100 hours more than I thought it would, lol, but I love how it’s coming out. I’m going to get James to paint it too. This week I’m taking the nerf bars off, so if you want them hit me up, I’ll let them go cheap. Then I’m going to paint the mirrors to match, or shave them, still unsure.

Anyways, enough rambling about my truck, on to ink! I tattooed my friend Dustin’s calf with a skull-n-crossbones guitar. It’s the same guitar he owns, but he wanted it to have a skull on the body. His brother Jayce (creator of Woogylar) sent me a rough sketch of the idea and I took it from there. He was beyond stoked, and according to everyone that has seen it in person these pictures don’t do it justice. Next we’ll do a full background behind it of whatever the fuck I end up drawing on him, lol. I love tattooing!

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Been painting and working on my truck a ton lately, it’s actually the reason I haven’t been updating here. I’m basically obsessed at this point in the game. And Ashlan’s not too happy about it, lol.

I set out originally to paint the grille inserts and emblem, along with a couple of interior plastics (Thanks to Bob-n-Maggie, and Brandon for my Autozone Gift Cards for my Bday). Well I ended up painting way more than I thought I would. It all came out great, and I have it reinstalled now, but I don’t have installed pictures. Mostly because I’m not done yet.

I ended up scoring a bunch of galvanized expanded metal from Drew so I’m currently chopping and grinding on my grille to make a deep dish grille with custom instert, one giant insert. It’s gonna look awesome. But here’s a few pics to stare at, click through to view a shit ton of them.

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I’ve been slacking big time on this website (and Gee’s 2’s for that matter), but I’m back to it now. It’s been busy as hell in the shop so I just haven’t felt like dealing with this. Here’s a quick update on me and my work…

My ride…

Sold the burb back to the original owner, Tat2Bob, and bought a 2007 Silverado Classic 1500 HD Ext Cab. I love it! Already slapped some 22’s on it with 305/40’s. Had the tail lights painted white to match, red light shines through when I brake, looks awesome. Installed a screen in the dash, fiberglassed and painted the dash bezel white after molding it to fit the screen. Installed pioneer highs and mids, a Kicker L7 12″ sub with a kicker zx750.1 amp, and I haven’t even gotten started yet!

Tattooing pays my bills…

As far as my work, other wise known as life, I’ve been doing crazy black n grey lately. Free handing shit left and right! I’m getting damn good and just drawing shit on and going to town with it. My camera was busted for a bit and I missed out on a few pics I wish I had gotten, but I did grab some awesome stuff. Check out some of this…the one on the ribs is a healed photo.

The fun side of working…

Now this next batch of photos is my current pride and joy of all my work. Blake came to me with a wicked idea of doing a Salvador Dali style melting clock on top of his shoulder with the hands aiming at his daughters birth date (3/19). I love Dali, I have his work hanging in my booth, so I knew this would be a cool piece. Anyways, after a few weeks of sketching ideas out and starring at Dali and others melting clocks I decided I was going to free hand this piece, so thats what I did.

Last Friday he came in and I worked on him my entire shift until close. He was trooper and just sat there and took it (top of the shoulder really hurts). I had this idea to turn his collar bone into a tree limb that reverted back into his skin like veins with the clock melting over all of it. It took about an hour to draw it all on (and I almost punched my self in the face when I outlined it before taking pics of the marker drawing) and over that to outline it. Then it took about 3-4 hours to get the outer limbs done. That was session one, more to come for sure! I’ll keep posting pics as the piece progresses. Here’s what we have done now….

Life’s still ticking away…

Past trucks and working me and Ashlan just celebrated our 5_th anniversary! She’s put up with me for 5 years now, that’s crazy! I love her more now if that’s possible!

Also, and I’m not going to say much about this yet, but I’m opening my own shop in November (hopefully). So stay tuned for more info on that as it comes.

That’s it for now…so now everyone that’s been pestering me to update this bitch should be happy! :)

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