So who has cool tattoos? Khukuris or anything else.

Fiddleback said:
When I was in school a friend was starting to learn the tatoo craft and always looking for practice. He put a tribal looking shark on my back. I like it. Most Tatoo guys offer to fix it for me, but I won't let them. I may never see that guy again.
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I'm in the same boat. Except I haven't found the right artist to finish mine. Mine is a chinese dragon encircling a mountain top with lots of those stylized clouds.
 
I have only one bit of advice - If you are going to get a tattoo, call around and find out who is the most expensive artist in your area and go see him.
Never leave this to chance.
 
I went yesterday to the 13th annual Little Johns Tattoo Convention in Greensboro. What a bunch of interesting folks! Saw some amazing work, including a lady from NC who does the most lifelike portraits of people's faces. That's not what I'm looking for, but her talent was undeniable. Not everyone's cup of tea of course, but interesting, none the less.

http://www.skingrafix.com/greenville1/caroline/default.asp?img=Untitled-sm.jpg

And no, I came back with no tattoos. :)

Steve
 
I have a couple on my forearms (bushido in kanji and my son's name in a celtic font). Will be getting some more done. My cousins tattoo's for a living so it will be more likely sooner than later.
 
I don't have any yet, but I want a few. Non khukuri related.

I would like to get "trust" tattooed on my chest, but not in a common language so I want it in Sanskrit. I'm glad there is a good Sanskrit teacher at my college. I have the word, now I need the tattoo.

I would like a tribal on my arm too, with a lilly flower in the center, Quebec's symbol.

I've been thinking about those for years now. Either I don't have the money, or I don't have the time but have the money. ONe day I'll get them.
 
I have an AA symbol surrounded by flames, all in blue and grey on my rt. upper arm.
The artist I used (Noble, Independent Tattoo, Selbyville Del.), and I co-designed it,
and he did a great job feeling and expanding my concept.

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DaddyDett
 
Tattoo is an old tradition among Dayak tribes of Kalimantan or Borneo (i.e. Malaysia and Indonesia). Here are 2 samples of modern Dayak tatoos:

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:cool:The "pro libertate" tattoo is a beauty! Also like very much the khukris tat.
I have 12 to 15 tattoos, depending how you count them. Most are pretty good. I have three on my right leg, and I would have all three removed. :)
 
SilverFoxKnows said:
I have the symbols for law and chaos branded on the inside of my forearms.

Frank
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Ouch... for some reason, I don't think I could bring myself about to branding.

And yet, somehow I thought cutting then reopening the wound to pour salt and vinegar in over the span of 6 weeks was preferable. :D

Cool Dayak tattoos, mohd! And I'm not all that big on tattooing, but these are actually nice looking (unlike about 90% of the stuff you see permanently needled into people's skin).
 
This is on my upper left arm. Not a good pic, I had to hold and point the camera myself. It's a memorial to my late wife. You may be able to see her name, Hope, in the lower wings.

--Mike L.

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DannyinJapan said:
Ok, I just took a nude picture of myself and sent it to another man over the internet.
I think I've crossed a line somehow...
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LMFAO!!!.... AT least you sent it to a man with a ponytail, Otherwise we'd haveta think you're really really weird.


Lets see.........
1) curved dragon(s-shaped) on my neck.
2) grateful dead cyclops skull on left chest.
3)Mermaid on left shoulder.
4)a portrait of my African grey congo(my design) on right shoulder.
5)Moon on left knee.
6)Sun on right knee. (my design and work)

I've been thinking of getting something with Kukri's in it but i havent found or thought of anything that suits me well enough.
 
Nothing special, just a rose on my left forearm, what used to be a multipointed star on my left upper arm and a Cross of Lorraine on my right upper arm. There's also a capital D with an x in it on my left lower leg left over from being a member of a very small gang of boys when I was 14-15 yo, dumb $**t stuff. What's impressive is the scars left over from surgeries and the severe and quite large burn that happened about 1984, *Foolish stuff that.:rolleyes: :o

Stupidity = can't be helped or corrected...
Ignorance = Can be corrected by teaching, most people anyway, see above.:rolleyes: ;)
*Foolish = Knowing better but going ahead and doing it anyway.:rolleyes: :o :( :mad: .... Never put raw gasoline anywhere near where a fire has been recently burning. Even the slightest ember *will* "catch" the fumes and then when fire erupts mightily *You* will jump and raise your arms to protect yourself and if you are still holding the gasoline container it's going to spill raw gasoline onto your body where the fumes *will* catch and the gasoline will burn you as it runs down whichever part of your body you spilled it on.:rolleyes: :eek:
 
Ouch, not a fun experience with the miracle of accelerants, Yvsa!

About the closest I came to that was my lip getting flaming marshmallow on it... oh and that time some rubbing alcohol on my hand ignited. (cringes)
Anyway, nothiing but a few blisters came of those incidents, luckily.

Karda said:
LMFAO!!!.... AT least you sent it to a man with a ponytail, Otherwise we'd haveta think you're really really weird.
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:confused:
 
I put a tattoo on a kukri...does that count?


:D :p :o :D
 
http://www.tattoosymbol.com/articles/borneoscorpion.html said:
The scorpion symbol, also sometimes known as kala, was noted particularly in Iban tattoo designs by Charles Hose (a civil officer who worked in Borneo over twenty years) and William McDougall (an English anthropologist) in their 1912 publication The Pagan Tribes of Borneo. However, the authors note that the “scorpion” design is actually based on the highly stylized image of the aso, the mythical dog/dragon associated with protection from malevolent spirits. Hose and McDougall suggest that the Iban adopted their tattoo designs from other subgroups on the island and created their own interpretations afterwards. In the kala design, the claws of the scorpion were originally the back end of the dog while the hooked ends at the back of the scorpion design were originally the open jaws of the mouth of the dog. Although it has no particular significance in the scorpion design, even the rosette-like eye of the dog still persists in the center
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Steve and all, click The Vanishing Tattoo Video Clips to see Vince Hemingson and Thomas Lockhart explore Kalimantan/Borneo jungle to reseach on the origins of the traditional Iban tattoo.
 
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