Festive Excitment

I still have Tattoo Artist Magazines left (issue 6# - #22) check it out on the website to see who the artists are that feature in each magazine and some Chris Trevino's "Gods and Warriors".

Waverley Color is on the way, Original Dark Black and some 10 color sets.

Seth Ciferri has finished up some machines for LHS... as expected they will blow you away...

Its almost XMAS get the last orders in, anything ordered up until Thursday 5pm, I will ship out overnight to be with you on Friday!

Waverley Color and Stable Color Singles, yes!

Waverly Color is on the way ! I have 12oz (360ml) bottles of the original Dark Black and 1oz (30ml) 10 color sets on the way.

Waverly makes small-batch hand mixed, Vegan-safe colors for people who want good tools to make good tattoos

Ingredients: Powder Pigment, Distilled Water, Glycerin, Alcohol..

Singles for Stable Color in stock soon, all 34 colors in 2oz (60ml) will be available.

TATTOO ARTIST MAGAZINE and Chris Trevino "Gods and Warriors" NOW AVAILABLE

Yes Tattoo Artist Magazine (TAM) it is now in stock from issue #6 to issue #22
I will be running a package on them till the end of February 2011 as follow

R280 per magazine
/ or Buy the latest issue (#22) and any back issue for R500
/ or Buy the latest issue (#22) and any 2 x back issues for R700
/ or Buy the latest issue (#22) and any 3 x back issues for R950
/ buy more than 4 issues at ......once and get every issue after #4 at R200
/ OR BUY ALL 17 ISSUES #6 - #22 for R3500, 17 magazines. That saves you R1260...

Also the book, Chris Trevino "Gods and Warriors" is in stock, I only have 10 copies. This book is truly amazing, hard cover and its is much bigger than you think.

TATTOO ARTIST MAGAZINE

TAM will be available as from tomorrow in South Africa for the first time!

Issue #6 -#22

Also issue #23 is no available on PRE-ORDER!

This issue features Thom Devita, Thomas Hooper, Robert Ryan, Soba and Mike Ness (singer of social distortion)

see cover(s) below!

Custom Made // Mike Godfrey Machines

Mike Godfrey has a handful of custom made sets available... These are truly once off don't miss out.

Hit me up if you are interested then I can get them for you through L.H.S.

Available Machines

Mousetrap side from Seth Ciferri, built by me. Solid hitting Liner with translucent brown/aged copper powder coat and shorty coils with sweet vinyl covers.

White lacquer paint Pusher with 8 wrap blue prism coils. Big grouping liner

Mousetrap frame from Seth Ciferri modified for full size coils. Big grouping liner

Mike Pike Teacup Liner built by me, Brown paint with gold metallic topcoat

Red paint Pusher. Fast zippy liner

Kaki tan paint Pusher b & g shader

Mint green powder coat pusher. Fast liner

#3 Pusher liner built for my limited series of 5 sets of nickel plated pusher liners and shaders.

Pusher, green paint and coils 1-1/4 in. Smooth and steady at low volts. Sweet runner!

Limited nickel plated Pusher liner/ shader set 3 of 5

Pusher, blue paint 1-1/4 inch 6 wrap silver coils with one off aluminum binders. Smooth and steady, wide range

Tea cup side from Mike Pike built by me. Yellow lacquer paint shader.

#2 Pusher liner built for my limited series of five sets of nickel plat pusher liners and shaders.

Black powder coat Pusher B & G shader

Workhorse Irons / SOBA Video

Such a rad video...

Delirium by Rich Medina

Often my delirium is so strong that I can't dance to the music or walk the line between my drums and everyone else's.

Attempting to shoot down the sun with a sling shot and bad aim got me missing the point, and losing my religion hand to hand.

Shit. So I rock the cradle with menstrual speed, buck my eyes and show my teeth when the lights come on. 'Cause no matter what the deal is I want my money up front, preferably in small bills, 'cause fat knots draw honeys like horse flies to the dung pile by the fence.

At first it was a game smoking weed and drinking to see who dropped first, but as the world knows crazy crew using ends up making play time serious.

Nowadays skills don't pay big bills. Better to go get a gimmick and cook a top dollar video over the fire. Yeah, sample that left out of vaudeville y'all.
Sucker time succatash for the consumer, aka niggas with no leaders to listen to. Lovers with no one to make love to. Dreamers with no place to sleep. Countries with no choice but to rely on young Miss United States and her fast ass.

Police woman of the first, second and third worlds. See we simply request our oil ahead of schedule. But we might just drop some scuds on your ass too. We don't give a fuck as long as we got the biggest gats on the planet.

Take a so-called civilized photocopy and scan it cause we been blowing other people's shit up since before it was a trend.

And now there ain't no such thing as nationalism. Now niggas can ride on top of the bus if they damn well please. Brothers instead get greek and snatch womens clothes off like frisky drunk-ass D.T.'s under summer sun. Belly floppin' in the waters of more primitive ways cause, dirty sex on video pays these days, and niggas got a way of making slow money fast.

Writin' checks they ass can't cash like, mystical probe-like rhetoric not paying the rent and you know come 2000 internet hell gonna catch the chills and repent so, save as much as you can on driving hard cause you gonna need this information down the road bro. Standing freshly dipped and intricately spoken he approached. Perched like a monster. And the world cries....

2 sets and a Shader

I only have 2 Liners and 3 Shaders left.

These machines run super smooth!!

Mike Godfrey welded steel with antique white powder coat. Built one at a time with hand wrapped 6 wrap 3/8 core liners, with a wide range running at low volts for pushing just about any configuration, and 8 wrap 5/16 core shaders, also with a wide range at low volts for a great all around shader/ color packer.

DIGIT CHANGE

Due to unforeseen circumstances my number has changed!

T.I.A...

New Number +27 (0) 71 166 3278

Stay True

Waldo

L.H.S

Gods & Warriors - Chris Trevino aka Horimana

More good news!

Gods & Warriors - Chris Trevino, will be in stock alongside Tattoo Artist Magazine.

I will have 12 copies only of which 4 are reserved already...

8 Left, act fast!

For those who don't know Chris Trevino (aka HORIMANA) have a look at the video interview by tattoo.tv at the bottom of the page

Read the TAM interview here: TAM INTERVIEW

Also take a look at his website for artwork and tattoos, Chris Trevino Website

This book is a must for every tattoo artist

Some specs on the book:

Gods & Warriors; Horimana: the works of Chris Trevino

Limited Edition Hard Back by Tattoo Artist Magazine

Slip Case and Dust Jacket

10" x 14" Format

174 Pages

Tri-Fold Pages with Multiple Angles for Body Suits

Foreword by Ed Hardy

TATTOO ARTIST MAGAZINE, Now Available In South Africa

Fuck, wow...

The last two weeks have been really good for L.H.S.

Gratitude is due to everyone involved and the amazing support I have received, not just locally but to all my suppliers from the states seeing the value in the need that the local market down here has for better quality products and service. putting it back where it belongs.

I am now very happy to say that I will be stocking Tattoo Artist Magazine as from the end of November. The first time that it will be available for sale in South Africa and L.H.S is proud to be the distributor.

I will be getting in the latest issue and some back issues!

Tattoo Artist Magazine is a tattoo trade ONLY magazine.
You must prove that you are in a studio in order to receive TAM.

Each issue of TAM comes with a DVD...

Check out their blog here: TAM Blog

Get at me to reserve you some, i will be getting from issue #6 to #22

I will run a debut special on the magazines, i will release more info once the magazines are available in 2 weeks time!

CUSTOM MADE FOOT SWITCHES

Thanks for the support I have received so far for the custom made foot switches.

I have shipped out to London and to Argentina and I have a made a couple for some local guys.

Two more to make over the next couple of weeks!

This was the first one I made for David C.

MIKE GODFREY

Mike Godfrey will be shipping these hand crafted machines tomorrow.

It would be silly to miss out on this, they where custom made for L.H.S

There are 6 pairs in total / 6 liners, and 6 shaders.

2 pairs have been reserved.

get at me, dont miss out

Workhorse Irons / SOBA

SOBA Brass Clipper Liner & Shader

SOBA Brass Delux Pilot Liner & Shader

SOBA Rusto Liner

SOBA Rusto Shader

SOBA Pilot Liner

SOBA Pilot Shader

SOBA Walker Shader

SOBA Walker Liner

I am very pleased to announce that Lighthouse Supply will be the exclusive vendor in South Africa for Workhorse Irons / SOBA.

This is the start of something amazing, something that has not been offered in South Africa before... at the level of quality for the price, these machines are available on order only and will be primarily focused on SOBA machines...

Starting off at the highest price of R4500 per machine and going as low as R2500 per machine, depending on what machine and if you are buying a liner / shader or a set.

Workhorse Irons Line up consists of, SOBA, AARON CAIN, SETH CIFERRI, CORRY ROGERS, ADAM CIFERRI, CHRIS SMITH and CHRIS QUIDGEON,

Workhorse Irons offers machines at a lower cost than other “handmades” due to the fact that each builder involved uses the same foundry, machinist, industrial supply house, and shipping agent as one another. WHI pooled all their collective resources, and everyones saves a few bucks without compromising the quality of the machines, or the integrity of ourselves.

Lighthouse is going to stay true to this mission and will be reselling the WHI machines at a reasonable and fair mark up, to give you better machines at better prices.

Lighthouse Supply will be reselling SOBA exclusively from WHI to start with but if you'd like any machine from any of the other builders on the line up, just drop me a email/phone me and we can make it happen, yesterday.

Here is a short list of some tattooers that use machines by WHI:

Timothy Hoyer, Jennifer Billig, Tom & Mick Beasley, Henning Jorgenson, Little Vinnie Myers, Scott Harrisson, Corey Miller, Jack Rudy, Hannah Aitchison, Dave Fox, Adam Barton, Adrian Lee, Phil Holt, Chris O’Donnell, GRIME, TIN TIN, Tom Strom, Joe Johns, Kevin Le Blanc, Aaron Coleman, Mike Dorsey, Jeff Rassier, Steve Moore, Dave Waugh, Richard Stell, Chris Trevino, Josh Brown, Brad Fink, Mike Rubendall, Mike Austin, Oliver Peck, Mike Schweigart, Matt Rinks, Brady Duncan, Nate Drew, Chad Soner, William Thideman, Jerry Ware, Kevin Starai, Sean Crofoot, Eric Merril, Kat Von D, etc etc...

L.H.S t-shirts

L.H.S t-shirts are coming soon, I am now taking orders and they are selling for R120 each, approximately $18. this excludes P&P.

The t-shirts will only be ready mid to end December, due to shortage of the quality t-shirts that I need to print them on, generous cuts, 180gsm AAA, imported t-shirts. t-shirts for real men!

I will print a run of ladies t's if there are enough requests.

Thanks to David Chaston for the rad artwork!

Convention and 1 week in Jozi

So after our 3day road trip with 1 burst wheel and 2 breakdowns, the last one being fatal and the Land Rover being stuck in Kimberley for more than a week... it was still by far the best road trip i had over the last 6 years!

Cool Inc convention, Cool Runnings, Fourways, Johannesburg 2010

Tyler B. Murphy hand poking "POP" on me

Tyler B. Murphy hand poking "POP" on Marcello

1933 , Rasty and Ronald hard at work

Jan "Munky" at work (The Golden Tiki, JHB)

Tyler B. Murphy

Murphy tattooing Jen

Tyler B. Murphy (S.O.S, Cape Town) hand poking Mully (Electric Eye, Durban)

Busta tattooing the bouncer in his biker getup (Spooky Tattoonz / The Golden Tiki, JHB)

Moog (Other World, Knysna)

Gordon (Keep It Real, PTA) Ryan & Chelsea (Spooky Tattoonz / The Golden Tiki, JHB)

The after the convention we stayed on in Jo'burg for another week

the sun had a halo...

Tagged along for a painting mission!

Grayscale Gallery / 1933 Custom Tattoos

Lee Herbert and Tyler B. Murphy at work at 1933

Transport between Grayscale and 1933

good excuse not to work? i think so

Jo'burg thunderstorms... fuck i miss you