 How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week? I'm tattooing with the cheapest machine that I could find in Amazon, which was $40 and at the end of this video I'm gonna compare the difference between the cheapest machine versus the most expensive one So let's get this day started dog Yes What's up, what's up? You gotta open it up. So this machine is called the mummy rotary tattoo machine. I got it for $39 at Amazon. It's nice babe How do you pronounce? M-bue M-m-y is it mummy or mommy? M-bue M-m-y Like a mummy like the movie mummy it was definitely the cheapest one I could find the colors were more expensive than rotaries It comes with this own cable Here it is I'm gonna complete this project that I started on mcg at the body or expo so the chimpanzee chimpanzee It's fully healed It's been a month and if you haven't seen the video go ahead and check it out after this one Hey guys, my name is Chris McGeorge and I'm the apprentice here at innovative ink and I'm getting tattooed by a machine off of Amazon. How are you feeling? After tattooing for so long with batteries it definitely feels a little weird having a cable on my Station with a power supply Okay, that's a good question. It's a good question What I didn't like about the courts is having too many cables on my station I had my lamp cable another lamp cable power supply cable Tattoo machine clip cord another cable batteries eliminate two cables out of your station. It's a lot more sanitary and it's more Convenient so this is what we got going on today my setup today is gonna be fully black My medium tone is gonna have 70% black and 30% white and my lightest tone is gonna have 20% black and 80% white Basically what I'm gonna be doing is freehanding the whole galaxy here It's just an illusion Get copy right. Yeah, I know you know that Nice little perfect circle here, I've done a few galaxies in the past So I think I studied enough for me to know what to add and what's gonna make this flow And like I mentioned my last video if you're gonna do something do not have any doubt My light source is gonna come from here. So I want this to be The big highlight and here's gonna be the darkest part So I'm gonna do Rock right here big meteor boom Let's do a milky way right here. Oh That's tight right there. I already I already see the shape. It's gonna be a big rock right here the meteor Boom and then how about I do like a shooting star right here A couple stars on this side, you know those those those areas where it's like gas It's like a it's for you know, I mean like a gassy area Gassy area right here as far as my needle selection I'm gonna be using my 14 round shader for my white highlights. I'm gonna use a seven round liner I'm ready to use this machine. It's heavy. This is heavy. I feel like I'm gonna be like I can do biceps with this I'm gonna be running it right now. It's running at 5.0 Let's see 5.0. It's running pretty good. It packs really good. I don't have an issue with it It's like I'm working with like a normal like if I was working with my flux. I am Slightly surprised that yeah that it's pushing it. It's really pushing the ink Quick to a 5.0. I already put down my first layer of black I'm gonna go and start applying my gray tones after going at it for about 30 minutes I realized that the machine was hitting a little too hard So I had to turn it down. I had to turn down my voltage from a 5.0 to a 4.5 This machine had no mercy. It was hitting hard like as soon as you hit the skin It was a direct hit aggressive. That's that's that's it didn't feel right to be tattooing at that voltage So I have to turn it down because on my hand it felt too hard of a hit And too much trauma to the skin So I felt like it was the right thing to just turn it down to 4.5 An apprentice here around so many great artists. I learned so much every day early on in my apprenticeship I I used to think that it was the machine that made a difference in my own experience I've used two different machines. I Used to think that one machine was great for shading and the other one was great for lining until I actually started playing with my hand speed and adjusting my voltage and my needle depth and the way I do everything and I ended up just using one and needing one. So I I am a firm believer in In your techniques technique over tools for sure Follow me on my IG at tattoos by McGee. I appreciate Kevin. This leg is insane. Thank you, Mr. Reyes Shout out innovative ink So what I have here are a list of my favorite machines to my least favorite And because a lot of people ask me what is your favorite machine or what you go to and I think that a better question is How comfortable are you with your needle depth your hand speed and your voltage? I think having those three elements is going to help you a lot to really unlock Each machine's full potential. I don't want to discourage you from using any of these machines This is just what works for me. Drop a comment and let me know if one of these machines work better for you Let me start with my least favorite, which is the spirit here It just doesn't hit as hard in order for me to pack in the way I like to pack I have to bump it up all the way to 8.5 in my voltage Which it irritates the skin a lot faster. It definitely hits a little bit harder than this one It was still pushing me to bump up my voltage to a 7.5 This one I really like the Bishop For lining I can do a clean line work with it When it comes down to shading though, that's where I was not satisfied with it I was not able to pack in color or pack in my grays and my solid blacks as fast as I like to here We have the Nova it is a great machine. It's really innovative. I'm not gonna lie or you you know This is how you choose your voltage and you go down. I definitely feel like that's Unique and original and it's also expensive. It's about a thousand dollars moving on to the flux I love this machine. This one makes your life so much easier when it comes down to doing line work Packeting color effortless. I mean you just go in and the line is right there It is about 1200 bucks and if you want an extra battery, they're expensive as well They're about $200 and finally my favorite machine has to be the spectra The reason why is because it is it is almost identical to the flux The price is $650 and if you know the guy from the store probably give it to you for 500 bucks, you know that hookup I definitely like this machine a lot because it is exactly like the flux the big difference is the pricing In case this machine breaks It's really easy to go by a new one and send this one back to get it fixed And it doesn't hurt your pockets especially for artists who are starting, you know and are really wanting to Have a good machine But not really spend too much money on the best machines out there I definitely would recommend this one. We're gonna compare the cheapest machine To the most expensive by the way, I don't want you guys thinking that I own all these machines I'm just borrowing these machines from my colleagues up in here what I've noticed when it comes down to the cheapest machine to the most expensive one is that the most expensive and This one have the same hit the biggest difference between these two that I felt like I did not like about the mummy is that with this one You cannot line comfortably It's definitely causes a lot more damage to the skin and it is not The best when it comes down to lining other than that I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you are tattoo artist I hope you guys learned something from this video and if you are tattoo enthusiasts I hope you were entertained. Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you guys next week. Peace