Welcome to our all new website, thanks for poking around. We have been hard at work along with our team at AMP building the site. We have added many new features to the site that should make it easier for you to get around, and use o
Darwin “Huck” Spaulding (1928-2013)
Right away when I heard the news that Huck Spaulding had passed away, I wanted to read the obituary to find out more information on this giant of the tattoo world. I have always had a fasination with Spaulding because he is built into the f
Time For A Logo Refresh
Along with our new website we wanted to refresh our logo. We have had the same gear logo for the last 13 years and we wanted to keep the same elements, but we wanted it to reflect our growth.We narrowed it down to a half dozen choices and t
Re-Up Your Pulse Account
For those of you that didn’t notice, our website is all new! The good news is, we’ve added a lot of great features! The bad news is, you have to re-up your online account with us. Your username and password from the old site will not work o
World Wide Tattoo Conference – BOSTON
We have just signed on to be the sponsor at this years World Wide Tattoo Conference in Boston. This event is new and has had great success in Chicago and Italy. It brings together six of the most forward thinking and talented tattoo artists
Lucky 13 elastics are back in stock.
After a long wait our Lucky 13 Black Elastics are back in stock. These are the perfect size elastics for your machine. We spent years trying to find just the right size that would create the right amount of tension. We never did find them,
Pulse attacked by cyber robots
Over the last couple days the Pulse site has been on and off. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. It seems our host had migrated us to another server and we thought that was causing the problem. Turns out that we have been taking on waves of
The New Paul Rogers Book
The Father of American Tattooing by Franklin Paul Rogers is an all new volume based on the original book. The original book was published in 1990 by Don Lucas and Paul. They had worked together on the book and Don had done multiple intervie
Pulse Limited Editions
Back at the beginning of this year we sat down at Pulse and made of list of all the ideas we wanted to develop and experiment with. As we tested some of these ideas in-house we began to think that we should collect up the things that have w
Great reference is only a few steps away.
One of the things I have learned over the years in tattooing is that really great tattoo artists almost never look at tattoo work for reference. They move two, three, four steps away and draw from great painters and sculpturs, cartoonists a