To get an original tattoo on your body, it is not necessary to purchase a tattoo machine or go to a master for big money. A device such as a tattoo machine can be made by hand.

You need

• Motor holder and power supply (you can use a metal clip from the handle as a holder).
• Gel pen.
• Guitar string (thinnest).
• The wire.
• A motor with a plastic roller (you can take it from the player).

Instructions

1. Unscrew the gel pen and remove the paint from it. Using a needle, "pick out" a ball from a metal rod. File off the tip with a file so that the string can fit in and move freely back and forth.
2. Shorten the handle tube in half for ease of use and save string. Cut off the tube that the paint was in, leaving a piece the same size as the floor of the previous tube. This is to limit the vibration of the string during operation.
3. To attach a motor to the tube, you need to take a metal holder from the handle and attach it to the motor with a sketch. Make a small hole in the motor roller with a hot needle to the size of the string (just do not in the center).
4. Measure the required string length. Pull it with pliers, and then heat it with a lighter in the place where the future sharp tip should be. When it starts to heat up, it will become thinner and burst. Sharpen the string with a knife turning stone. Insert the string so that the tip looks 4 mm out of the rod, and bend the other end of the string with the letter G and insert it into the hole of the roller. Twist the wires with the wires of the micromotor and connect to the power supply.

At home, you can make a tattoo machine yourself, if you have all the necessary components, you can make it in 15-25 minutes. Before you start working with it, you should adjust so that the string is taut, and not hit anywhere. You should also take a power supply with power regulation in order to increase or decrease the speed of the tool.

This instruction will tell you how to make a tattoo machine at home. In order to get a tattoo, you don't have to go to an expensive tattoo artist or buy special equipment.

With a little effort, it is possible to make the necessary equipment yourself.

To work, you will need to find the following parts at home:

1. Electric motor.
   A motor from a children's toy with a voltage of at least 12 volts will do. A motor with a lower voltage is not needed - it will be too weak for such a purpose.
2. Power Supply.
   Any unit with a voltage of at least 12 volts will do.
3. Gel pen or mechanical pencil (plastic or metal).
   It will serve as the body of the device, as well as guide the needle inside the machine.
4. Brace.
   This will attach the motor to the gel pen. The staple can be made from metal, for example from a regular tablespoon, by removing the part that is used for food. Instead of a spoon, you can use a toothbrush by heating the plastic handle with a lighter and bending it with the letter "L" (an example is shown in the figure).
5. Insulating tape.
6. Needle.
   A regular guitar string is used as a needle (it is better to buy a new string in a specialized store). Choose the thinnest string.
7. Button with 4 holes.

Assembling the device

Take a pen, disassemble it, and remove the ink from the refill.

Rinse the rod well, no ink should remain there. Using a file, grind off the metal tip of the rod so that the string can pass through without effort. Cut the rod about halfway (this is necessary to reduce string vibration).

Preparing the motor: a button must be attached to the motor shaft using super glue. Make sure that the adhesive is completely dry before assembling the device.

The connection between the motor axis and the button must be of good quality and not loosened over time. Do not fill the rest of the button holes with glue - they will still come in handy.

If a plastic gear is attached to the axis of the motor, you do not need to glue the button, but make a hole for the string in the gear with a red-hot needle.

This is done as follows: first of all, the L-shaped bracket and the handle are connected using electrical tape. Tightly tape the clip to the handle with several layers of electrical tape so that the bend of the clip and the top end of the handle are flush.

To the other part of the bracket, the motor from the toy with the glued button should be wound in a similar way.

Now you need to pull the string through the handle and cut it, leaving some margin. Then the end of the string is bent a few millimeters and passed through one of the holes in the button (or through a hole in the gear).

As you rotate the motor axis, you will notice that the string moves up and down. The tip of the string sticking out of the rod is cut in such a way that when the motor rotates, the string is shown from the tip by 3-4 mm. Sharpen the string with a knife-turning bar.

The power supply is now connected to the engine. For convenience, a switch can be attached to the machine. The device is ready to use!

Don't forget about safety and hygiene! Use a new string and a new tip every time! Boil the string in water for at least 10 minutes before use.

These simple rules help you avoid contracting diseases such as HIV or hepatitis.

In 1999, a few months before my dismissal, I was summoned to their company by senior conscripts. Since I was a full-time artist in my company, I was asked to draw a tattoo blank and then fill it up. They said the typewriter is made of a pen, so it's pretty much the same thing. They gave me a barbaric battery-powered unit and said: "Come on." So I "learned" to make "tattoos".

Already in civilian life, I made myself my own typewriter, and to be honest, it earned me many times more money than its components cost. At first he worked as a friend - for ink and gaining experience. And "friends of friends" have already done for "grannies". I will not tell you anything new here, I will just try to present everything in detail, if possible, with a description of some subtle points that have been developed over several years, or collected bit by bit from different sources.

Close-up

So, the type of machine is rotary. The scheme, as far as I know, is the most common among DIYers. If all components are present, it is assembled in 15 minutes. Necessary parts: a gel pen with paste, a motor from the player, wires, a string, a power supply (preferably with a variable voltage), a motor holder (to be described below).

Requirements for spare parts. The main thing is the motor. It is really most convenient to take it from a player or tape recorder: its small size has a strong enough effect on further ease of use. I once held in my hands the same shaving machine with a mechanical winding (!), Mentioned in various sources, from which machines were often made in Soviet times. It is hard and inconvenient to work - too much load on the wrist. However, the most important requirement for a motor is that its roller is plastic, not metal. Otherwise, you will have to glue all kinds of plastic disks on this roller, which complicates the design, and, accordingly, reduces reliability (it is very inconvenient to repair the machine in the middle of the stuffing process).

Power Supply. As practice has shown, variable voltage is sometimes very useful, as it allows you to fill faster. If the person is in too much pain, the speed can be slowed down - sometimes this also helps. The main thing here is to determine the maximum voltage that your motor can withstand, and make sure that the string does not fly out.

The strings are taken from the guitar and the thinnest. However, there are times when you work with what you got. Thick strings can also be used. The winding is removed from them, and the base is processed in the same way as for the thin one.

It is better to take soft wires so that they hang freely, and not "stand with a stake". In addition, rigid wires (which were bent and remained in this position) have a stronger effect on the place where they are soldered to the motor wires. The fragility of these wires leads to frequent breaks. If it breaks off under the very motor, it will have to be changed completely.

The motor holder can be made from a tin can. However, I was lucky to buy an automatic pencil that had a handy metal clip for grabbing onto a pocket, etc. I just took it off and used it as a bracket. Then the illustration will show in more detail.

Assembling the case

We take a gel pen, untwist it and remove the paint from it. We squeeze the ball out of the metal spout of the rod with a needle from the inside. This creates a hole, but it is too narrow for the string (the thickness of the strings can sometimes vary), so it needs to be widened. We take a small file or a file and grind it down a little so that the string can walk freely back and forth (otherwise, at high engine speeds, it can get stuck, which will come to its departure and the subject's frightened sidelong glances).

The handle body itself will have to be shortened by about half to reduce string consumption. A simple calculation: a whole pen - you will have to make a string in its entire length, half a pen - a string is half the size. Thus, saving the consumption of the string, besides, the subsequently fixed motor will lie on the bend of the hand, and not balance in the air.

A tube from the rod is also needed. Its approximate length is half the size of the pen body. The meaning here is this: the string vibrates strongly when the motor rotates, such a mechanism allows it to be gently adjusted in the desired direction. In addition, sometimes ink rises up the handle (capillary effect, etc.). If there is no such limiter, it can smear the inside of the handle, which is ugly, and can interfere with changing paint - you will have to wash it more thoroughly.

More important detail: A small hole is made in the plastic spout of the pen, where ink will accumulate. As a result, you will have to dip the machine less often in a jar of paint, which is very convenient.

The result of working with a gel pen in the picture. The rod is presented in two possible versions.

Assembling the motor

There can be a bunch of options for mounting a motor - as far as imagination is enough. I used a pencil holder and taped it on. The convenience here lies in the fact that no matter how much you calculate the length of the string, you will still be mistaken. And the string should come out very accurately from the nose of the rod. Due to the fact that the motor bracket is not firmly fixed, I can adjust the position of the string by moving the motor back and forth along the handle body.

In addition to fastening, you need to make a small hole in the roller. This is done with a red-hot needle. The hole should not be too large to prevent the string from falling out. In case of an error (like mine), you can make a couple more holes. Only then we must not forget which of them came up best.

String processing

After a bit of searching on the web, I found no intelligible description of how to handle a string. homemade cars... Meanwhile, this is one of the important and painful (for the experimental) moments. An incorrectly made string hits worse, spoils the clarity of fine lines, and delivers more painful sensations. Therefore, I describe it step by step:

We take a string, roughly outlining how much length we need. For example, we fix one end of the string with a hand with pliers. With the other hand, lightly pull the other end of the string. In the place where we want to make a sharp nose for the future needle (usually we choose a place closer to the pliers in order to save material consumption), we bring the lighter with the third hand and heat it up (are there not enough hands?). In this case, the string must be pulled. In a heated place, it will first glow red-hot, then become thinner, and then burst.

Initially, the string is elastic and does not want to take a straight shape. It is necessary to "persuade" her to become smoother - red-hot once. Having verified the required length of the string, we bite off the main skein with pliers. We bend the rear end, which will be attached to the motor, with the letter "g". Do not overdo it with its value, so as not to cling when the engine is running.

In the harsh army (or Zona) conditions, the string is sharpened, about which you have to: first about zero, then about a matchbox, then about glass (which is not possible - you can throw it off the list, it will just take more time). I have always sharpened the needle on the smooth grindstone for knives, pressing the tip with your finger. Any shape can be given to the string: both cone-shaped (like a sewing needle) and flat are used (it looks like a "spatula" - in one plane it hits a thin line, and in the perpendicular direction a wider one).

Another subtle point: the needle should be slightly bent at the end. Thanks to this, it will spring and hit at one point. If you make it straight, then when you exit the tip of the pen, it will hit anywhere, which will complicate the drawing of straight lines.
It is advisable to wash the finished string with soap (advice from an experienced surgeon), since soap dissolves biological substances (infection), while alcohol "burns" it to the metal surface. Certainly, the best way- combine both. If conditions do not allow having several strings, its tip must be ignited with a lighter. But over time, this can worsen the properties of the metal, make it completely brittle.
The finished version of the processed string. It looks too dirty, but it is the color of the calcined metal and there is no infection on it. Although the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station would probably curse ...

Debugging work

Oddly enough, but assembling a typewriter is not enough. It is also necessary to adjust its mechanisms so that they work without failures. In the course of practical activity, some patterns were discovered. The elimination of minor inconsistencies greatly simplified my work, and the test subjects reduced the "sadomasochistic pleasure".

At first, the work itself big problem there were string departures. From the inside, she buried herself in the nose of the handle and jumped out of the mount on the roller. The solution was this: it is necessary to adjust it so that when the string is in the extreme rear position on the roller, the sharpened end of the needle comes out of the handle by only half a millimeter. It was here that the ability to adjust the position of the motor on the handle came in handy, since it is quite difficult to adjust the size of the string with an accuracy of half a millimeter.

However, it is not enough to adjust the position of the motor along the length. Its height relative to the centerline of the handle is also important. That is why I used a piece of tubing from a regular ball rod. Its function was to bend the string closer to the motor shaft. It looks like a nipple system, but this has significantly reduced the number of overhangs due to the weak attachment of the string to the roller.

Also, when the pen spout was first dipped into a container with ink, all the air did not come out of it. It led to the formation of a foamy droplet on the nose - it looks like there is a supply of paint, but nothing remains on the skin. You just had to blot the hole on the nose of the pen with a rag (an air bubble formed there) and re-dip it in the paint.

Hygiene

"Cleanliness is the key to health." In all my humble practice (for about 6-8 years I was engaged in tattooing quite tightly), I only had two unpleasant overlays, when a full tattoo caused complications. First, I made a pattern for a friend of mine who was working as a road builder at the time. Literally on the second day, he was already waving his pick at some object - in the very sun, without a bandage, without protecting himself from dirt, sweat, etc. The result - she instantly faded, burnt out in the sun (in our Crimea, it is quite hot and sunny in summer), and went acne. Naturally, the paint "fell out" in places and had to be interrupted.

The second case - the girl wanted a pattern of flowers on her tailbone, and immediately after that she tore off my bandage (she has jeans, you see, "on her hips") and went to play with her ass at the disco. Moreover, she had some kind of special skin - any infection caused wild scars on her. When I saw that lumpy ugliness located under the tattoo and a little next to it, I almost felt sick. After all, I cared so much about the sterility of my equipment. And when I found out why and under what circumstances this happened, I wanted to kill her in a sophisticated manner. Repeatedly. It was so insulting for my painstaking work. The scars had to be masked with new rosebuds. It looked fine, but "the sediment remained."

Thus, it is necessary to carefully monitor the cleanliness of the machine: ideally, all homemade parts in contact with the subject's skin (string, pen body, used ink in the cap, the cap itself) should be disposable. You should not save on this - these things cost a penny. Especially when compared to the prospect of infecting your friend with AIDS from a previous unfamiliar friend. A former classmate of mine told me about this, when five guys contracted syphilis in a military school in a similar situation. He carried him over, but it is not pleasant to be substituted like that.

When applying a tattoo, certain rules must be followed:

A person should be well-eaten - blood flows to the stomach, bleeding is reduced, accordingly, it is easier to beat, the paint is not washed out of the skin.

The body must be sober (preferably in both) - the blood vessels dilate from alcohol, and the pressure rises, which leads to increased bleeding.

The patient's skin and the executor's hands must be thoroughly washed (it is not very convenient to work with gloves - you "feel the skin" worse). In general, gloves are a "wiggle" for shy clients, since, in addition to everything, they must also be sterilized. And the mere presence of gloves (in which they could stuff other people as well) is not an unequivocal guarantee of the purity of the process.

It is necessary to wipe the skin, removing excess paint and blood, with a clean cloth (bandage, cotton) dipped in boiled water (this significantly reduces the "crust" on the stuffed tattoo, shortens the healing time), and not alcohol. Alcohol leads to burns, disrupts the healing process of the skin. Alcohol can be used for additional sterilization of already clean equipment (just do not pour it into the power supply unit - it takes a lot of offense).

After applying the tattoo, it is advisable to wash the skin in this place. warm water with soap, apply a healing ointment (I always used the "Rescuer", and in the army they used aftershave cream) and apply a bandage for a day so as not to rub against clothes.
If you worked at home and take out the dirty, bloody bandages after all, don't show them to your mom. The reaction is much stronger than those bandages. Say it's red ink.

In the end, it is necessary "to tears" to instruct the patient:

so that he does not take off the bandage for a day;

did not comb the "crust", no matter how it itched;

after a day has passed, you can wash, but not become limp;

do not sunbathe until complete healing, and then use an OT sunburn cream - otherwise the paint may fade a few years earlier;

if you smear it 4 times with the Rescuer for a day, it can heal in just a couple of days (although this is an individual indicator - in practice it healed in a day, or two, and sometimes a week).

Just in case, hint that if he does not obey and scores on these recommendations, you will come to him at night in a dream and with an ax - sometimes it helps. Yes, in most cases he will come after a while and ask for more. Tattoo is like a drug - addictive.

Psychophysiology

An abstruse word, but it cannot be ignored. Over the course of my work, I have heard a lot of scary stories about how some mentally weak people can be affected by the image on the skin. If some "major" wants to fill himself with a pattern, "yin-yang-crap" or "dragon for 30 bucks", then for him it most likely means nothing - he just wants to "show off". Especially to girls, explain that this is not makeup, and not earrings - this is for life and is very difficult to remove. Although sometimes girls don't come for a tattoo. :)

It's another matter when a tattoo means something important for a person: some kind of psychological image, a combination of emotions after the experience, the memory of an event or another person. Such an image on the skin, supported by internal motives, becomes for a person as an algorithm of thinking or even an element of zombie. A couple of examples from life. One comrade asked me to get him an army tattoo. He served in the Soviet Union, in the missile unit and grandfathers for all young people were forcibly stuffed with the "symbol of the unit" - a laughing devil with a bottle and a cigarette, sitting on a rocket. The main problem besides the ugly performance - even when it was bad at heart, the man did not stop smiling: “He laughs, and I must.

Another incident was with my friend, when his father was set up and imprisoned. The guy walked loaded, with a killed look and a dull look. It is clear that his soul was gloomy. He asked to fill him with a wolf and an inscription in a foreign language "Man to man is a wolf". Barely dissuaded. It is clear that for him this could become a demeanor for life. After much bickering, the inscription was replaced with an abstract background. And Dad came out a couple of years later, and life got better.

One friend asked to fill her with a panther with a crown. A large girl of average height, with huge tits (she once did bodybuilding and ate a lot, then she gave up sports, but her appetite remained) and a lively disposition - she was a downtrodden child, drowned out by her authoritarian mother. Mom was also a shot. Even her roommate ran away from her (karate, winner of the competition) - she threw everything at him during quarrels: from pans to bricks. By means of a tattoo, the girl wanted to either express her "protest" to her mother, or to rise in the eyes of those around her, but did not know how to do it correctly. Many such acquaintances have addressed me "with complexes". After the tattoo, they almost immediately changed in their behavior - they began to associate themselves with the formidable images depicted on the body. Joking aside, that mother almost let a hefty dog ​​down on me ...

There were also quite mystical stories. You can believe or not believe in any parapsychology or energy, but sometimes it matters - who, what and with what thoughts stuffs a person. I heard how some guy painted a beautiful, meaningless picture on the body of one girl. Either his "eye" was "heavy", or he was fond of Satanism, only that friend began to feel sick until the drawing was washed off. So think now: either something was wrong with the guy, or the girl has “put on a movie” for herself. I know one thing - you cannot wish evil on the person you are stuffing with something. And if possible, he should be discouraged from doing any "necrophilia" on the skin - attracts bad thoughts, negative energy and sidelong glances of others.

Thieves' tattoos

I will say "a little, but delicious": I heard a couple of stories of how ignorant people stuffed themselves with beautiful tattoos with a Zonian meaning. One filled himself with a woman seduced by a snake ("rooster"). Comrades came up and asked to "serve". The boy began to excuse himself that this was a misunderstanding. With the words "you need to answer for the suit," they broke his skull.

The second fool has filled himself with something of the suit of "thieves in law." Perhaps an epaulette or something. People came up and spoke respectfully on a hairdryer. They see that the comrade does not understand - they were offended for the deception and also punched their head off. Hence the conclusion: before you hit, check carefully whether the picture has a thieves' connotation. You can keep the man alive.

Total

It's really easy to assemble a tattoo machine from scrap materials. If you have all the components, the assembly process will not take long. And it will cost a penny compared to the prices of factory products. The main thing is for a person to be able to draw. Several times I have seen the work of the so-called "professionals". They were made on factory equipment, with "real" paints, for a lot of money, but with crooked hands. And they looked much worse than my work - on a self-made typewriter, sharpened with a string and Rotring drawing ink - which I stuffed for friends virtually for free. After all, it is not a matter of technique, but of hands and artistic taste.

I can remind skeptics that the most unique works were made in ancient times by Japanese and Chinese craftsmen - an ordinary needle (and sometimes a fish bone) stuck into a bamboo stick. In doing so, they achieved stunning effects and smooth color transitions. Using just a few natural dyes, they mixed many shades of them. Today, many of the secrets of that time are irretrievably lost.

I am not ashamed to admit that I never became a real master. I can only fill in what I can draw. But it's nice to hear when, after five or six years, friends' tattoos still like them and continue to attract someone's attention.

In order to get a tattoo on the body.

First, I suggest you watch the author's video about the craft:

Many people, regardless of their faith, wealth, age, in one way or another want to express something in order to be different from the other gray mass of people. All this is done in different ways: some dye their hair, get piercings or join one of the many subcultures, and some get tattoos. Few greet such an expression of themselves, but still there are such people. Getting tattoos in special institutions is a very expensive pleasure, so I want to show how homemade device- tattoo machine.

To make the device, we need the following components:
- helium pen;
- pen or aluminum wire (approx. 12 cm;
- a motor (for example, from a tape recorder or toy car), the more powerful the better;
- guitar string;
- power unit;
- insulating tape;
- lighter;
- sandpaper or a small sander.

Let's proceed directly to manufacturing.

First, take a handle, light a fire and use it to bend the handle:

Next, use pliers to "flatten" the bent tip of the handle:

You need to attach an eccentric or gear to the motor and fix everything with a glue gun:

Cut off half of one handle and use electrical tape to fasten one handle to the other:

You should have a construction like this:

After that, we take a small piece of a metal stick, heat it up over a fire and carefully "melt" it into the eccentric:

After that, we glue that flattened part of the end of the handle, which we made at the very beginning of manufacturing, and carefully glue the motor to the handle:

We take a string and thread it through the eccentric and through the handle:

We pull the string over the eccentric and fix it.

Using a point soldering iron, we fix the wiring from the motor:

We need a power supply unit with wiring, which you can remove from charging to your phone. We attach the wiring from the charging socket to the motor, and from the motor we connect the wiring to the wiring leading to the plug and then to the outlet:

Using glue, we attach our socket to the back of the flattened end of the handle:

For modern young people, tattooing is not just a way of self-expression, but also a real art. Modern tattoo machines have appeared on the markets relatively recently. Their invention is the merit of Samuel Rayleigh, the creator of the prototype machine for applying ink to the skin, as well as the man who became the father of the technical equipment of tattooists and brought drawings on the skin on potentially new level making them one of the types of contemporary art.

Nevertheless, a tattoo machine is a very simple and unpretentious one, which you can make with your own hands using improvised means available in every home.

What do you need to assemble a tattoo machine?

First of all, you need to find a small electric motor with a voltage of at least 12 volts. Such a motor can be found in most obsolete household appliances: an electric shaver, a broken drill, a cassette recorder, or an electric toothbrush. However, it is imperative to ensure that he possesses required power which will be enough for optimal smooth operation of a homemade tattoo machine.

In most cases, to the rotating shaft of the miniature electric motor a small plastic gear is attached, to which in the future you will need to glue a small button with four holes. You need to glue it carefully so as not to accidentally fill the holes in the button with superglue. In the future, they will be needed to secure the needle with which the ink will be applied to the skin.

While the glue dries on the motor, you can proceed to the next step towards creating a homemade tattoo machine. To do this, you need to choose the right ballpoint pen, which will at the same time serve as a body for the finished machine, and also, with the help of a rod, set the direction of the needle. In this case, ideal solution will become a plastic or metal mechanical pencil or "Bic" ballpoint pen. Having decided on the body, you need to prepare the pen itself: blow out the paste from the rod, get the ball, and also ensure free movement of the needle by expanding the hole in the pen or pencil.

Next, you need to make a bracket that attaches the electric motor to the device body. A bent teaspoon shank is ideal for making a staple. In addition, an old toothbrush can be used as a staple, which can be folded by heating with a conventional lighter.

A small piece of string made of stainless steel can serve as a needle for an improvised tattoo machine. Before attaching the needle to the machine, it is recommended to disinfect it by boiling for 10-20 minutes. The length should be several centimeters longer than the available holder. At the end of the assembly, the needle should reach from the center of the motor to the tip of the body-tube.

Making a tattoo machine with your own hands at home is easy

Having prepared all the necessary parts, you can start assembling the machine. First of all, the body and the bracket must be connected with electrical tape so that the end of the body and the bend point converge. In the absence of electrical tape, you can fasten the parts of the machine for drawing pictures on human skin with twine. At the same time, you need to ensure that the mount is as strong and reliable as possible, because swaying and loosening during the operation of the machine can affect the quality of the tattoo. Similarly, you should fix the electric motor with a button attached to it.

Further, an impromptu needle must be passed through the body, then make a "P" -shaped bend and thread it into one of the four holes of the button. After that, it is necessary to test the machine to make sure that the needle is working properly. If the needle turns out to be longer than the body, it is necessary to cut off the remainder.