How Do You Make A Tattoo Gun?
Cultural tattooing methods vary from bundles of bamboo needles hammered into the skin to carving the skin with a knife and rubbing powdered ink into the cuts. Today the internationally accepted method is to use a tattoo gun. It is a motorized stylus with a needle that acts like that of a sewing machine. Make your own tattoo gun in about ten minutes. Step 1 Remove the eraser from a mechanical pencil and cut it in half. Step 2 Punch a hole all the way through the center of the eraser with a thin nail or a large needle. Step 3 Cut a 2 to 3-inch section of bailing wire or 11-gauge guitar string to act as the needle. Use a pair of needle-nose pliers to bend one end of the “needle” into a 90-degree angle. Step 4 Take an electric toothbrush and separate the brush head from the motor body. The metal shaft the brush head was attached to is now exposed. Step 5 Insert the straight end of the needle through the hole in the eraser. Slide it to the other end so it rests on the small, bent portion. S
