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The next thing I would like to discuss is putting the tattoo needle in the tattoo machine.
Once it is removed out of its sterile package, it is going to look like this There is a small
rubber grommet that is inserted into the back of the needle and that is to keep it stationary
on the machine. One little tattoo secrets is when you pull the needle out of the package,
it is going to be straight. With the needle down, you are going to want to slightly bend
it so it is arced slightly and I will explain right now why that is. Here is our tattoo machine. You are going
to want to hold it from the top and the bottom and insert the needle through the front and
you can hold it with your fingers like such and you apply it onto the bar that is here.
Now it is stationary. It can't really wiggle around. Now you can see that it is arced down.
The reason we do that is as we install the needle tube, this is the reservoir in front
of the needle that is going to hold the ink. We are going to slide this up. Now you have
to be extremely careful when you do this that the needle in the tip does not *** against
the sides because it will dull it. These are razor sharp needles and any burrs or anything
like that will affect your tattoo in performance. So as we bring it in, we are going to pull
all the way back until the needle slightly pokes out from the front of the needle just
a little bit. Once we get it there and it will move back and forth, about right there,
we are going to tighten. We want to make sure that it is good and secure. If you look closely,
you can see that it is protruding out about a 16th of an inch. Okay that is ideally what
you want and you can test it by coming back here with the spring and pushing forward.
If you look you can see it moving in and out and that is what we are going to be working
with, the tip of the needle. So with the arc that we were discussing it causes it to bow
upwards and the reason being we want it that way is because in the traditional machine
we have to have a rubber band that is wrapped around the machine like such and you want
to make sure that it is even, the tension on here. What that does is the rubber band
pulls the needle down so that it is held down against the base of the very bottom of the
tip of the needle so that it doesn't wiggle around.