247 Ink Magazine (August/September) 2016 Issue #10 | Page 23

James Vaughn, backwoods hillbilly, does the most amazing Japanese work. It just really doesn’t make any sense. What did you think of Anthony’s “incomplete” tattoo? They brought it up and I understand what they’re saying but to me it could have looked finished if he said I wanted that white beard and hair to be there. I would have been totally fine with it, but I think it might have come into play if the other tattoos that Christian and Cleen presented were better but at the end of the day I thought it was so far apart that it didn’t matter and what I don’t like about the show is I would rather have a tattoo unfinished but executed to perfection so later on you can go back and finish it than to have someone rush and finish it and have it look like it was rushed and finished that you can’t go back and fix so my opinion is it’s not a big deal. That tattoo was executed great and blew the other 2 away. How much more business do you get now because of the show? And do the give you more trust on your input? 100% We were busy before, but now it’s ten fold. They go online, look you up and really see what you post so you get a lot of people who just don’t want a name on their neck because it’s you, which is cool too, but it’s great. Now they realize what you do so they say do what you do and it’s great. It’s unbelieveable, before you had to bust your ass and beg people to let you do this stuff and now they come to you for that specific reason. Do people travel to Connecticut more than before to get a tattoo from you? 21