I have many times thought about a 'too that spoke to my Nordic heritage, something with a Viking and the lettering in Runes. I may still do it someday

 

same year as the truck tokheim 300 polly gas style

 

I like that gas pump

 

That is going to be a really nice sleeve. Interesting to read everyone's opinions on tattoos in this thread. I've been getting tattooed for almost twenty years now but I've never had a job in an office setting so I can't comment on how it may effect carreer advancement. My careers have been fairly tattoo friendly, military and corrections.

 

I thought sleeving was something you do to a worn out engine. :-)
For me, I've never appreciated a single illustration that I wanted to carry with me for my entire life so I could watch it fade and sag.
Of course, I wouldn't put a Chevy engine in a Ford and there's plenty of people that do it.
For some odd reason when I see big tats like these it makes me think of some horror movie I saw where the creepy guy made a lampshade from human skin - was that "Silence of the lambs"?

 

piston ready
next time he will finish the oil can

 

That looks great. You have one talented tattoo artist.

 

That looks awesome. I have half sleeves which are scrolls with bible verses. I agree that tattoos are a way to express parts of your life. I also have my son's name in Hangul on my forearm because he was born in korea. I have my other sons name and birthday surrounded by moose antlers, salmon, and a fishing pole and rifle because he was born in alaska and loves hunting and fishing.

Oh and I work in an office setting and just wear long sleeves everyday

 

 

Tats look great brother! Old school cool!

 

The times they are a changing; but Kansas has not caught up yet. AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFIERS from the KHP website:


<li class="lineHeight">Have any offensive tattoo, scarification or brand regardless of location on the body.<li class="lineHeight">Have any tattoo, scarifcation or brand that would be visible when wearing an agency provided uniform or required work attire. Any such marking(s) appearing on the head, face, neck, hands or arms (below the bottom of the bicep). (As a general rule, any marking(s) visible when wearing a short-sleeved v-neck shirt.)

Heard a quote once, "I'd hate to wear permantely what I was thinking at 18". It all depends on what you were thinking at 18, I guess.


Don't get me wrong, I admire meaningful, quality work, just not my thing. I'd probably have more than one if I was 40 years younger.

 

Nowadays you see sleeves that are just designs with no real story.
This sleeve really tells someone something about you. Pretty cool.

 

Nice work! Really well done. Nojive55 if its not your thing then why comment on it?

 

Looks really nice. Nice composition too. My Dad was a Dermatologist and tats were considered very bad back then. So I guess I've been influenced by that perspective. Not for me, but to each his own. I must admit it looks very cool.

 

Great work Bjorn, looks great. No jive, wtf is the KHP website, I'm guessing it's an irrelevance to Bjorn and most of the world?