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Shut ‘Em Down.May 13th, 2010 by MJones

Scratchers ruin tattooing, it’s just the plain truth.  I often think about these people who seem to have a total disregard for the dues that need to be paid in order to work your way up into the tattoo industry.  And sure, a lot of really amazing tattoo artists learned by tattooing friends or family, in living rooms and in basements through methods that can be defined as scratching.  But in some weird and perhaps hypocritical way, that’s not scratching to me.  Why?  Because the artists I’m talking about who started off doing homemade tattoos are now responsible and respected artists and business owners.  There’s a huge difference between them and the people who are content simply tattooing out of their basements with their guitar string tattoo machines for the rest of their lives.

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