The "Michelangelo" Tattoo Machine

"Michelangelo"
A HANDMADE ONE OF A KIND tattoo machine.
BY DRAGON RANDY
The Theme for this machine is the Artist Michelangelo and is an Ordinal Piece of functioning tattoo machine art. Hand made starting with a high quality Vintage iron tattoo machine. Then Masterly hand crafted from Stag Antler and exotic wood and Gem quality stones and Sliver/Nickel and Brass.

Featuring

Frame: Stag Deer Antler Hand Carved into a Roman Woman with Mother of Pearl accent added and attached the frame upright with fiber spacer and commercial grade epoxies, then Pinned clear through the frame with Quility Silver/Nickel 5/32” rods.

Coils: High quality Vintage Coils wrapped with exotic Frog skin and clear coated to protect the skins.

Swing Gate: Hand Carved Exotic wood 936 Stabilized Spalted Maple with Amber Resin Crystal inlayed fiber spacer then clear coated five times to secure the item it was Pined with High Quality Silver/ Nickel 5/32" and Rod all hand carved, sanded, polished.

Contact Set Screw: 100 year old steel Skeleton Key.

Contact Set Screw Lock: brass thumb screw with real gem quality Beautiful Deep Blue Lapis Lazuli.

Armature Bar: Low Carbon 1018 Iron with laminated wood inlay and clear coated.

Stand-Off: The rear Clip cord stand-off has been laminated with Real Abalone.

The machine started as a Professional Vintage Shaw Style tattoo machine and was used for several decades professionally. It was selected and tested for performance as well as function as beautify ordinal art.

Each Art tattoo machine I hand build is a One of Kind custom art tattooing with many hours of skilled labor.

Each machine each machine is quality tested to function professionally in my Lab.

I have been tattooing since the 70's and I am come from one of the dying bread of Single needle tattoo artist, fine line black and gray and color detailed realism era.

BUILD SPECIFIcatIONS

The “Metal Finish” Old School blacking

The “Contact Screw” !00 year old Skeleton Key

The “Contact Screw Set Screw” Brass with deep Blue Lapis Gem

The “Rear Binding Post” Nickel with Abalone Gem
The “Tube Vice” Swing Gate with Exotic Wood and Amber Resin Crystal inlayed

The “Armature Bar” Low
Carbon 1018 Iron with laminated wood inlay.

The “Contact and Main Spring” Spring blue steel.

The “Magnetic Coils” Vintage 11/4” 10 Wrap wrapped in Exotic Frog Skin and Clear coated.
Notes: This machine is one of the best quality frames I have worked with it required only one thin shim on the rear coil, as a result this machine has operation range like ONLY a perfect geometry frame can produce. It starts at 2 volts while that is too low to actually tattoo with it does demonstrate the quality of the machine components and geometry.

FUNCTION SPECIFICATIONS

Function: Shader/Color
Needle Group: 7 thru up mag’s
Stroke: medium
Force: Soft to Medium
Speed: 88Hz to 96Hz
Volts: 2.4v to 5v
Duty Cycle: 48%
Weight: 9.27 oz