Pulse started as a simple conversation in a tattoo studio. Tim Brewer and Brett Bryan kicked around ideas of how they thought tattoo equipment could be improved. They took their ideas and began the process of learning what worked and what didn’t. It spawned many more questions about the things that didn’t work and why. In 1998 they set up shop in a basement and got to work. Nights were spent building machines, days were spent in the studio tattooing with that equipment. Through trial and err

Hey guys, You may have noticed check out was a bit different on the site. We moved it over to a new platform that allows us here at Pulse to get in and add and remove product easily. We are still working out a lot of the kinks right now.... so if you run into any problems just shoot us a call at 1-877-421-2703 or a email at info@pulsetattoo.com and we will get you sorted. We are at the warehouse monday through friday 10ish til 2ish area. Both Mark and I still tattoo full time at our shops.

  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 on many platforms. It will work on your phone, ipad or laptop. We have been so busy building the new

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 fabric of tattoo machine builders. I was rewarded with a fasicnating piece of info that has eluded me for my 20 years in the tattoo business. Huck Spaulding's name was Darwin, I had no idea. It is a great name, but I see how Huck and Paul chose to name their

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 the winner is above. It feels great to have a new logo, which will appear on some new T-shirts, stickers and hats very soon. Pulse 2.0 is here, all new logo, same great quality. read more

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 on the new site. We're sorry about that but, it's really not as bad as it sounds! You probably need to update your shop name, phone number or email anyway, right? Whether you have a long history of ordering with us online or this is your first time, you

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 working today. Over a 2 day workshop you get to participate in each of their seminars. It's nice because you don't have to pick and chose what seminar to go to, or worry about manning yo

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, so we had them made for us. The bags contain a 1/4 pound of elastics and come in the ever so fashionable black. read more

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 attacks from multiple botnets. Not us personally but our host. Seems a hacker will Trojan a botnet into tons of unwitting systems and then call them up and turn them into an army of dark minions to attack thousands of computers at the hands of a spammer who h

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 interviews and taped many conversations with Paul about his life with the intention of publishing his story. While working on the book Paul had a stroke and was in a nursing home for about a year before he passed away. Don was able to finish the book and published a l

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 worked out and do some special edition machines. The idea behind these specials is to learn some new things as we develop new processes and ideas for our machines. We can then integrate these things into our line of machines. read more

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 and photographers, architects and jewelry makers. The further you can move away from your original source material the more you can grow and the better you can become. The most original talents always refer to unique sources and put together a great style from

We love our loyal customers here at Pulse and over the years we have had done business with some really great folks. If you ever wondered how you could get yourself to the top of our Christmas card list take a cue from our new favorite customer, Nick Pinto. Nick decided to tattoo the side of his dome with a tattoo machine and made the great choice of our Watson machine. Nick is sending a clear message that he is "loyal to the coil" and is keeping it as real as can be with his new tattoo. Lo

As we were unloading needles a few weeks back Jessica had a great idea to pack up all the great 7's we carry as a Super Seven Sampler. This great collection of needles gives you 7 different styles of 7's. The sampler includes 7 liners, 7 mags, 7 curved mags, 7 round shader, 7 bugpin mag, 7 bugpin curved mag and 7 bugpin liners. You get a 5 strip of each needle for a grand total of 35 needles. The whole shooting match has been priced at $11. So as you can see that is a great deal, but you are goi

Start off your New Year right by choosing your own sample color set from the Established Ink line. We have lowered the price down to $45 for 9 half ounce bottles of any of Established's great colors. Mix and match anyway you want. Get two yellows, two purples, three whites, a turquoise and a red or get 9 maroons, we don't care just as long as you give them a shot. read more

We are very excited to announce our brand new Ergo Disposables. We have been working on this project for a while and we are now stocked and ready to go. We took our best selling large Ergo grip and turned it into a high quality disposable tube and gri

Martin LaCasse is the artist behind the best selling book Take What You Can...Give Nothing Back, and the award winning collection Three Sixty Five. He returns next month with an all new book of art entitled Make Your Mark. This go round Martin has painted sixty all new sheets of classic flash. His style shines through and showcases w

Our New Pulse Heritage T-shirt is avalable now. The artwork is incredible and we came to learn about the artist through the magic of Instagram. Like most people, I like to eat my lunch with one hand while broswing the web for new artists and cool things to look at with the other. While browsing one day I came across this really amazing hand drawn logo for a playing card company. It was so intricate that I assumed it had been done a hundred years ago, there was no way it was done on a computer.

The good people at TattooNOW have put together a really unprecidented sweepstakes of goods and services just for tattoo artists. The Professional Artists Dream sweepstakes is just that.TattooNOW put together a really top tier line-up of companies for their giveaway. Each month they are going to be selecting an artist to win these amazing prize packs. The contest is going to run for six months with a new winner each month and the grand prize winner is going to get a day of tattooing from Guy Aitc

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 on many platforms. It will work on your phone, ipad or laptop. read more