a catch like this is pretty rare. was a good catch, man. right here is from inside of a light, a staple. this right here is the same copper wire that came from the inside of the hair clippers and two checkers pieces to hold it together. these guys know what they re doing. another inmate marcelo cardenas is not a tattoo artist but has gained a reputation for crafting high-quality jailhouse tattoo guns. i rent the gun or i sell it, it goes for $30, $25 or $30 in this county right here. because he is due to leave the jail any day now to start his six-year prison sentence for assault, cardenas agreed to demonstrate how it s done. right now it s not like i really care about it. if they run me out, i m going to leave before they do punishment or the reprimand on me. cardenas starts with some wire scavenged from some electric hair clippers. we rub the wire like this here.
asked him what it is and he just pulled it out. opened it up, tattoo. a catch like this is pretty rare. was a good catch, man. right here is from inside of a light, a staple. this right here is the same copper wire that came from the inside of the hair clippers and two checkers pieces to hold it together. these guys know what they re doing. another inmate marcelo cardenas is not a tattoo artist but has gained a reputation for crafting high-quality jailhouse tattoo guns. i rent the gun or i sell it, it goes for $30, $25 or $30 in this county right here. because he is due to leave the jail any day now to start his six-year prison sentence for assault, cardenas agreed to demonstrate how it s done. right now it s not like i really care about it. if they run me out, i m going to leave before they do punishment or the reprimand on me. cardenas starts with some wire scavenged from some electric hair clippers. we rub the wire like this here.
really care about it. if they run me out, i m going to leave before they do punishment or the reprimand on me. cardenas starts with some wire scavenged from some electric hair clippers. we rub the wire like this here. he winds the wire around the screw to make a crude electromagnet but he also needs a metallic magnet which is pilfered from a phone or speaker. the magnet, when you put it on top of the screw, it bounces with the cycles of the electricity. you bounce like this. the needle is made from a staple attached to a q-tip shaft. and then you use soft string to tie it up. that s pretty much how you do it. the magnet when it bounce, it push the needle. i don t invent it but i learn it. several other bexar county inmates also make their own tattoo guns or rigs, and the source of their knowledge could very well spring from just one man, jose hidalgo. early on in his incarceration he was teaching the other inmates how to create these tattoo rigs, how to do the tattoos,
was a good catch, man. right here is from inside of a light, a staple. this right here is the same copper wire that came from the inside of the hair clippers and two checkers pieces to hold it together. these guys know what they re doing. another inmate marcelo cardenas is not a tattoo artist but has gained a reputation for crafting high-quality jailhouse tattoo guns. i rent the gun or i sell it, it goes for $30, $25 or $30 in this county right here. because he is due to leave the jail any day now to start his six-year prison sentence for assault, cardenas agreed to demonstrate how it s done. right now it s not like i really care about it. if they run me out, i m going to leave before they do punishment or the reprimand on me. cardenas starts with some wire scavenged from some electric hair clippers. we rub the wire like this here. he winds the wire around the screw to make a crude
wire scavenged from some electric hair clippers. we rub the wire like this here. he winds the wire around the screw to make a crude electromagnet but he also needs a metallic magnet which is pilfered from a phone or intercom speaker. the magnet, when you put it on top of the screw, it bounces with the cycles of the electricity. you bounce like this. the needle is made from a staple attached to a q-tip shaft. and then you use soft string to tie it up. that s pretty much how you do it. the magnet when it bounce, it push the needle. i don t invent it but i learn it. several other bexar county inmates also make their own tattoo guns or rigs, and the source of their knowledge could very well spring from just one man, jose hidalgo. early on in his incarceration he was teaching the other inmates how to create these tattoo rigs, how to do the tattoos, and as a result they