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Retired Member southey

M.A.B (Mad About Bushcraft)
Jun 4, 2006
11,098
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your house!
Inspired by ManofTainth and LadyofTainth's new tattoo's,
I thought i'd start a gallery for the inked and the stories behind them.

no indecent pics guys, i read the forum while having tea.

Here's mine I got when I transfered to the Army Air Corps. it's the center of my cap badge and my only one.
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It was done at Bulldog Tattoo's just outside Tamworth on the road to Litchfield.
 
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Jan 5, 2010
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bedfordshire
ha ha!!told u!!
ok ;
1- name in sancrit
2-chinese love symbol (although sam says it looks like a smiley man in a hat with dreads!)
3-date that id rather forget in roman numerals (this will eventually be covered with something else?)
4 & 5-as u may have guessed i have a thing for butterflys. one down spine was most painful yet!
6-was my first and so was small incase i couldnt cope with the pain!
7-is only one i regret as guy convinced me t have this instead of what i asked for then he messed it up by doing 2 stars
touching!
8 & 9-my daughters name in chinese and celtic symbol
10-yet another butterfly to add to collection!
11-latest butterfly!
Ive had them in what people say are all the painful places i.e.foot,both sides of wrist,neck,bottom of back and spine but as i say the one on spine was definately the most painful especially as im alittle bony!! It took over an hour but it was bearable!
 
and now for my measley four
1 done in bedford at artline tattoo's first one i had done smallish to see how painful it was i like celtic mythology and it seemed right so got it
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2 again done in bedford at artline tattoo's was a member of a pagan group called fellowship of the dragon and i liked the design again it felt right
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this one is also the one i show people as a warning of what happens if you dont look after the ink wg-hen it is first healing
3 done in biggleswade at black line fever i wanted a tomahawk and this one lept out of the book at me but i adapted it a little to make it my own
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4 todays one done at black line fever in biggleswade
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i have more in mind once finances allow
Sam
 

Retired Member southey

M.A.B (Mad About Bushcraft)
Jun 4, 2006
11,098
13
your house!
LadyoT your spine butterfly is great, and ManoT i really like that dragon, funny you both mention the pain worries of your first, i strode in to the guys studio, pronounced "I want this, here(pointing to my the right peck) bloke says "that'll hurt you had one before, your arm won't hurt as much". i sit down a say" yes my arm will be fine". still regret not getting it on my chest though, might have to go for that for my next.
 
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Melonfish

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jan 8, 2009
2,460
2
Warrington, UK
Just about to book my 2 tattoo's on the inside of my right arm i'm getting the Levellers Rolling Anarchy, on my left inside arm i'm getting the words to go with it.
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i have this patch too :D
"Whoever Puts their hand upon me to govern me is a usurper, a tyrant, and i declare them my enemy."

i've got one tat i got when i was about 19, i'll post a pic tonight its a weird shaded blue thing, no way to describe it tbh.
 

JonathanD

Ophiological Genius
Sep 3, 2004
12,815
1,511
Stourton,UK
Does anybody else regret theirs? I was 22, just left Uni and was going into the RN. It's still as bloody bright as the day I had it. That was in 92. I was shot twice a couple of years after and the second bullet caused a big line just above my bicep as it grazed me... looks like the damned thing is underlined now.

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Chrisj

Nomad
Oct 14, 2009
251
0
Gwynedd
Mother Earth on my upper arm.

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My wife has this image of two people growing together on one arm.

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She loves bats and has these bats spiralling up her other arm from inside her wrist to outside her upper arm morphing into rose leaves.

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