Garrett Styles sends us these awesome knuckle tattoos:
hand made, represents 3 aspects to me. first and most importantly, I am a christian and believe that we are all hand made by God himself. secondly, i am a mechanic and do all my work with my hands, i make a living with them and support my family with them, so to me , my family is hand made. Thirdly, i am into 4×4 trucks and there is alot of fabrication involved, and i always prefer to make what i can rather than buy it. being hand made.
all my work has been done by Baillie Fruson @ eye of the needle saskatoon saskatchewan.
Fat Tom is a straight up dude and wants you to know it:
My story is pretty simple. I’m just a punk rocker and a skateboarder who has no job or money. I live on my friends couches and party but sometimes i get to travel. My life rules and I don’t plan on ever having a real job. P.S. let me know if i can use your couch! Thanks -Fat Tom
I got this tattoo b/c I’m a seamstress and I have terrible luck with relationships.
Sewing is really the only love I get out of life…and I’m ok with that. :)
sitting in class doodling, kept drawing a lightning bolt. Class dismissed, “cherry bomb” tattoo shop in martinsburg, wv, lightning bolt tattood on middle finger. end of story. no meaning but i dig it. tat has faded a lot since pic but going to get it touched up soon
the reasoning behind me getting “RUFF LIFE” on my knucks was because Ruff is my last name and it just fit well together…besides…i’ve had a pretty “ruff life”
Joel couldn’t tell me how many tattoos he has (he has that many), but he did share two of them with me, one of which appears across four of his knuckles.
This is one of his more recent tattoos, and one of his most important:
It’s an interesting and unusual take on the knuckle tattoo. Rather than the 4×4 knuckle piece, it’s a 2×2, with the letters “M” and “C” on the right hand and the numbers “5” and “9” on the left. When the fists come together, the MC 59 display, representing Mike Conley and the year 1959, when Mike was born.
Joel described Mike as his best friend, who died tragically in February of this year after falling and hitting his head in a parking lot of a Chicago motel. Mike introduced Joel to the work of Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac, and to the music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. He was the owner of The Avalon Bar in Costa Mesa, California. I could see the sadness in the eyes of Joel, as he recalled the friend that was taken from life
too soon. Joel said “I’m never gonna be over it.”
This was inked by Hek at HB Tattoo in Huntington Beach.
I learned later, by visiting the Mike Conley Family Memorial Fund website, that Mike was a founding member of the Southern California punk band M.I.A. (Not to be confused with the hip hop artist of the same name.)
I encourage folks to visit the website and, if so moved, to make a donation. There are links to some nice articles about Mike and his influence on the music scene.
Once again, I’d like to thank Joel for his contribution to Tattoosday and, subsequently, KnuckleTattoos.com.
I look forward to contributing more knuckle art, freshly photographed, from the streets of New York City in the future.
I´ve got this at Artful Ink @ Gjøvik, Norway.
Ever since I saw the movie “Blues Brothers” for twelve years ago I´ve planned this tattoo.
Now I finally got it!
Oi names iggy , my knuckle tats read Stay True , Pretty much meaning Stay Proud Stay Punk Stay True , now im only 24 so i obviously wasnt around for when punk was punk but thats the punk i like eh , so i got this done because the spirit of 77 is alive and well in lots of us workin class boys despite all these scenesters n hipsters shape shiftin what punk is this way n that , the one on top my left hand is The Crown and the down the top piece of the crown represents the yuppies in the world the lines just below represent the upper middle class tryin to git rich and the barb wire seperates the yups from the arrows below which show the workin and lower class the arrows show the rise of us growing n growing and they point to true on me cause im proud to be a workin class and minamilist by choice , no need for greed.
these are my knuckle tattoos. all the way across. kiss or kill, a line from the song “we’re desperate” by the band X. my favorite song by one of my favorite bands. kiss or kill black or white do or die. need i say more? done by phil colvin owner of memorial tattoo atlanta ga.
