Wow 100 Followers

The other day I signed into the Pulse Blog and was pleasantly surprised to notice we had reached the milestone of 100 followers. That is very cool and I wanted to say "Thank You" to everyone who has followed our blog and supported us.

Matt Hoffman BMX Hero / Pulse User?

Growing up I was huge into BMX and I have always drawn from those design aesthetics when I design equipment for Pulse. In the BMX/ Freestyle world there is no greater king of that sport that Mat Hoffman.
The other day I was reading Mat's blog and it seems he has been tattooing some of his friends of late and I couldn't help but notice that Mat seems to be rocking a Pulse Executive machine. It feels good when people you respect use your equipment, but Mat Hoffman. The Condor. That is very cool, and I can't stop smiling.
Mat Hoffman has always been the real deal, check out his latest exploits at mathoffman.com

Pulse Flashback -Circa 2001

I was doing a little spring cleaning the other day and came across these gems from back in the day. I think this is 2001 or 2002. It feels like 50 years ago, I know it's cliche but time really does fly.I am not sure what I was thinking with the "soul patch", was I trying to drag the 90's into the 21st century? I don't think it avoided the razor much past this photo. My man Lyle Tuttle doesn't seem to be as happy to be hanging out with me as I am with him. That dude have 400 packs of nicorette gum in his room. He does own some really great machines, I hope he publishes his entire collection some day.
Damn what is Jessica, like 18? Did she even graduate high school yet? Good times for sure, we have come a long way.

New Flash Set -Hunter Spanks & Jay Langer Set 2

It has been a real quiet year with flash. There have been so many great books and sketchbooks that I feel people have been really focused on getting books into the library. But right in time for the holiday season two powerhouse artists bring the heat with an all new collab set.

Hunter Spanks & Jay Langer get together for an encore to their first best selling flash set with 10 all color, all new, all tattooable sheets.
Both of these artist have such a stranglehold on what makes a great tattoo, solid line-work, bright colors, & nice clean designs. Your walls and flash books will thank you for adding this new set. Remember how much fun it can be tattooing a great flash design. Available Now @ Pulse $100.

Pulse, now more sociable.

Here at Pulse we've finally decided to be more social and network! Please check us out Facebook and Twitter. And don't worry Blogger fans, we'll maintain our presence here too.
Like us on Facebook and please tell all your "friends"! PULSE FACEBOOK
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Pulse Ten Year Special SIX

For our Sixth special we hooked up with our good friend SOBA to build a wonderful combo machine. The finished product is pretty kick-ass.
We sent 25 Fairfield frames to SOBA who created a hand rubbed finish with a special secret sauce of a patina. SOBA then set about creating Pulse Gear coil wraps that have become one of his amazing custom signatures. They are actual copper and all hand made over hand wound SOBA copper coils.
The Fairfield is our top shelf brass machine that runs as smooth as butter, and the machine run was split with half liners / half shaders. It also feature our new p-nut vise that works like a charm.
The hardware was all custom made as well as the lasered and numbered A-bars and Soba signed each machine. Alex from Pulse took extra time with each machine tuning it to run to perfection. The machine run is limited to only 25 pieces of which SOBA took one and we took one to add to the trophy case, so only 23 will hit the streets.
We packed the whole shooting match up in this custom milk crate with a laser project tag and a signed "record" of the whole project. We want to say thank you to SOBA for taking the time out of his busy schedule to do something special for us. We don't get nearly enough opportunities here at Pulse to create custom projects and one offs. We are very proud of our machines and equipment and this 10 year anniversary is something special. We also wanted to make sure the price was special...$350.00. We only turn 10 once!!

Pulse Ten Year Special FIVE

For our Anniversary special #5 we are putting our entire library of tattoo magazines on sale for 1/2 off the cover price. As the weather changes it's time to stock up on some reading material for the slow days at the studio. Get inspired, get informed and get it at half the price.

Stop in soon to check out our special #6. Our great friend and machine builder extraordinaire SOBA has build 25 Pulse machines just for our Anniversary. They are amazing.

New Flatiron Grips from Morphix

Those new Flatiron grips from our friends at Morphix are in and stocked on our shelves here at Pulse. These new grips have a nice feel and design. If you thought the Humbolts were too big the new Flatirons are for you. Pick one up for the shop and pass it around for a new feel, you may end up with a whole new favorite. New Flatirons Available Now

JIme Litwalks Third Sketchbook Available

The new Jime Litwalk Sketchbook is now in stock at Pulse. This book features Jime's monsters, maidens and mayhem. If you own 1 & 2 this is what you need next. If not catch up, it's great stuff. Jime Litwalk Sketchbook 3

10 Years of Pulse

Well Happy Birthday to us. The ideas for this company were born at a tattoo studio in the mid 90's and we pursued it bit by bit. In 2000 we made it official and started selling the Specialist. Wow -ten years later, and we have achieved many of the goals we set for ourselves. I love the idea that an artists will work tomorrow with some of our equipment that they have been using for 10 years. That feels really good to me.
Katie's mom baked us an awesome cake to kick off our Birthday right. We are going to follow it up with some gifts. For the next 10 months we are going to offer a Pulse special each month to celebrate and say thanks for your support. We are planning a couple of great deals on popular products, and some special edition things. Some things will last for a couple weeks some things will only last a day or two, but it will be fun for the rest of the year.
So join us for the rest of the year and get hooked up. As always we want to say "Thank You" for supporting us through all these years, we love what we do here at Pulse and look forward to the next 10 years. Stay tuned.

Year End at Pulse

We are sorry for the lack of updates lately. The end of the year is busy for us in-house, we have all the end of the year paperwork and then inventory, and then planning for the up coming year. This year 2010 we will celebrate ten years in business so we are planning some special things for year. It should be back to business a usual after the first, thanks for coming by the blog this year we appreciate it. Have a Happy New Year!

She's A Brick....House.

Our good friend Joe Capobianco stopped by yesterday with his new machines. Joe designed a great looking machine that has been hand made in Brazil. It's an Iron frame stuffed with ten wrap coils and handmade brass hardware. Each rig is numbered and comes in a great looking box that we helped Joe design and produce. The new machine is available as a liner and a shader. She's been dubbed the "Brickhouse" and she's lett'in it all hang out... Sorry I couldn't help myself. Scoot on over to Joe's site http://www.joecapobianco.com/ to pick one up.