Thanks funk. Well my latest experience was a few days ago on my way back from Vietnam I had a 12 hour layover in Tokyo so I decided to get a tat tebori style. I did not have much time so I got a few Japanese characters from an artist named Bunshin Horitoshi. Real down to earth guy who met up with me and took me to his home studio. He has got mad skills and I wish I would have had more time but he mentioned coming back to new orleans in the future so we gonna see. I gotta say, the poking method was not as painful as my previous tattoos with the gun.