Now back in stock is Martin LaCasse's Classic book "Take What You Can...Give Nothing Back". It's now a softcover version @$30. If you lost yours or your clients chewed it up, or if you have the hardcover version (now a collectors item) grab a copy of reprint. This book is a classic in tattooing, loaded with drawings, paintings and flash from Martin. On sale right here.
For our fourth Anniversary promotion we put together a collection of our new 2010 stickers. This limited edition pack contains 24 unique stickers for the Anniversary price of $10. This years stickers are one of the best crops ever. It also contains the limited 10 yr retrospective sticker of 100 Pulse stickers. 
Get yours now because they are limited to a little over 100 sets, and thanks for all your support through the years! Available now Pulse 10th Anniversary Sticker Pack $10.00
For our Third Special we present the Pulse 10th Anniversary "Edison" Clipcord, in an ultra limited edition. This retro clip cord was the brain child of the Pulse production team of Alex and Joe. We tried a bunch of different material in our quest to make a cool looking clip cord. 
The special editon starts with a fabric reproduction twist cord, we added a gold 1/4" jack as well as custom gold washers with a peek-a-boo clip finish. These cords look beautiful running an old school machine or even placed in a display with your collection of Paul Rodgers and Col. Todds.
Cords are 7 feet in length and are packed in a custom antique box. These cords are going to be limited to under 100. Once they are gone we won't be making any more. So add one to your collection today PULSE "EDISON" CLIP CORD HERE
The new Tattoo Artist Magazine #19 is out and stocked full of really great stuff. Features interviews with Bob Roberts, CIV and Katie Sellergren, along with all the great you features you know and love. Get your copy here TAM #19.
Welcome to our second Ten year anniversary special. This month features a special price on our best selling steel Ergo grips. The Ergo grip offers a great shape that fits the hand in an all natural way.
For the next 10 days our steel Ergo grips will be priced down to $10. for any size grip. A once in ten year deal, so stock up. Thanks, we have lots more in the works, next month we are working on a limited edition collectible clip cord. Tune in next month.
Special $10. Pulse Ergo Grips Grooved, or Ergo Smooth.
I opened my mail yesterday to find these all new top secret prototype grips from the good folks at Morphix. It seems they have been tinkering with some new designs.The new grip code name : Flatiron seems to have many of the great properties of the original Humbolt grip. It does have a compressed quality to it and at first glance I was concerned if it was going to be comfortable. Once I laced it up I could tell it was going to be good fit.
I like them, I have a small to medium hand and I felt they would fit me better than the regular Humbolts, they may even take a bit more stress off the hand and they definitely offer some more control. I do think they may take a bit more time to adjust to rolling in the hand due to their oval shape, but they are form fitting. I am also glad to carry a product from a company that is moving in the forward direction, refining their products and taking some chances on new ideas. The inside word from Morphix is they will be available soon. Price TBA.
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
For our first Anniversary Special to celebrate our 10 years in business we are pricing all our hats at $10. We have 10 specials planned for the next 10 months, so make sure you check in to see what is new each month.
Both our hat designs are marked down to mark the occasion. Our "P" hat was designed by renowned letterist B.J. Betts and contains a surprise under the brim. Pulse x BJ Betts Hat
This hats are limited, and now priced nice so celebrate with new brim. Pulse "Machine" Hat
Pulse Beanie's come in black and pink - Pulse Beanie
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.
We are very excited about this all new set of books from artist Martin LaCasse. Martin's first book "Take What you Can...Give Nothing Back" is one of the best selling books we have ever stocked here at Pulse. His all new book is entitled "Three Sixty Five", and it's actually 4 books in a slipcase.
Martin drew everyday for a year, and packed it all into this unbelievable book set. He picked a different subject each month and than did a drawing each day. Three hundred and sixty five of them, he also did twelve new full color paintings. He covers all the most popular tattoo subjects -flowers, snakes, masks, skulls, sharks, pin-ups, reapers, tigers, eagles, koi, dragons, and religious icons. The collection also features his own notes and step by steps. The art is really amazing, everything is ready to be manipulated into a tattoo, these are all great starting ideas. The books are all softcover and contain three months in each.
All four books fit nicely into this great slipcase that Martin designed. The most exciting part of this new package is the price, -$60.00. You won't find a better reference book this year!!!! We are super excited to have them stocked and ready to go - Martin LaCasse "Three Sixty Five"
Here at Pulse we have always had a few rules. Always work to create a quality product, treat our clients the way we would like to be treated, and no sweat pants at work. Sweat pants although comfortable and easy, can quickly become more of a lifestyle choice. We just can't have that. During our yearly inventory this year Katie broke the cardinal dresscode rule.
She has been forgiven and has seen the error of her ways. She is also in good company, Jessica once wore a whole velour sweat suit to work circa 2002....once.
The new issue is hot off the press with features on Jeff Rassier & Ernie Gosnell as interviewed by Oliver Peck, also featured is our old friend Aaron Bell. Inksmith and Rogers celebrates 25 years in business, along with product reviews and another Sailor Jerry Letter. Always packed with great info. Ready to go TAM#18_HERE
Badass tattoo artist Russ Abbott's DVD is now in stock here at Pulse. It gives an in depth look of Russ creating a tattoo from start to finish. Cool tattoo, cool DVD. We have them available now at Pulse IRONCLAD-Tattoos_Built_to_Last_DVD 
Also take a minute and check out Russ Abbott's website, along with a gentleman's website, he has some great work to ogle and some amazing merch. Keep you eye on this guy, I do...http://www.russabbott.com/
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!
Tam #17 is in stock and ready to go for the holiday season. This issue has some great interviews with with Matt Shamah & Frank Lee. But the best feature is all the old pictures and parts of the collection of tattoo historian C.W. Eldridge. Plus all the great stuff you have come to expect from Tattoo Artist Magazine. Hot off the press here TAM#17_Click_Here
Ahh.. remember your first tattoo. I do, I still have it after about twenty years. A few weeks back the son of the artist who did it, Pete Jr. hit me up with an e-mail and told me his dad was cutting his hours back and was cleaning up the shop a bit, going through some old flash and drawings. He asked me what the first tattoo I had gotten from his dad, looked like. I didn't really think much about it until he sent me an email and when I opened it there was my tattoo! His dad had kept every stencil he had created. I couldn't believe it, this drawing is 20 years old. It made my week!
Our good friends over at Presto Art Publishing just set up a new web store and Blog. They are publishing their release schedules for books and blogging about upcoming projects. Check into it. PrestoArt.com
Our girl Mrs. Jessica is featured on the cover of the new International Skin Shots tattoo mag. She looks great, and as you can imagine it's great to tell people that when you call Pulse, your order may be taken by an international cover model. That's classy.
Sorry I missed Fine Art Friday last week, but I am back on track. This weeks fare showcases the work of one Bawidamann, Andrew Bawidamann. I have been a fan of his work for years. The cool thing about his work is it looks a bit like it was done on the computer. It has those clean lines and blocks of great color that almost look like they were created in Adobe Illustrator. But they are all painted by hand. The strength of his art lies in it's simplicity also. If he only needs two lines he only uses two lines. Good lesson.
Bawidamann's unique style of Pin-ups are usually clad in WWII and military style gear, so I dug this piece for it's Southern California vibe. Check out his stuff, his store is always stocked to the top with T-shirts and print. The_Art_of_Bawidamann
Yet another great sketch from Greg "Craola" Simkins. This was from his show entitled, "Don't Sleep". This idea of having his characters in an amusement style ride is a reoccurring theme for Greg. Let's hope that one day Greg gets popular enough that someone makes a CRAOLA LAND. We will be able to ride on these wonderful inventions. Greg has also opened a new store and anything there would make a great give for the holidays The_art_of_Craola
BONUS: Because I missed last week I wanted to add a bonus piece. This awesome heart sculpture piece comes from the multi-talented Eric Merrill. This dude can do anything. This piece rocks in real life because of it's 3D element. Great stuff Hope_Gallery_Tattoo
Here at Pulse we have been fans of the "Sons of Anarchy" show since it started. We got a phone call last week letting us know that next week on the season finally our machines and equipment will be featured in one of the scenes. Henry Rollin's character A.J. Weston is going to get tattooed with a Pulse machine in a tattoo shop scene. We have worked with this prop company before and our stuff has been featured on "Nip/Tuck" and "Prison Break". It's pretty cool to see your stuff on T.V., so tune in and check it out.
