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Originally posted by 6guns:


What the hell is it?

Well it's a skunk. It made sense at the time, because the Naval relay station I/We maned was always short of resources to keep the gear running and we would scrounge parts where every we could to keep circuits up. Skunk works as it was called and our team wore that as a badge, and every one knew this and appreciate the efforts. So, a few brews, and I wake up with a tat.

Just pull the one from Little Mermaid, seriously.

As a retired sailor, The SEAL Trident is not typically something I saw on SEALs.

I have seen a few guys with a seal with red ball on his nose and one guy had Marvin the Martian on his hip.

Ahh. Yes, the indefatigable SIGforum humor.

Shortly I'll be taking a walk-about. Hoping for 3-8 months as I home in on where I want my residence / art studio / materials shop to be. (Via computer will keep up with the 100-200 hours per year I 'work' while traveling but phone messaging will be disabled).

Zero jewelry tats piercings now. Planning to swim in Hawaii for two months or so; when I am at the right place, shave off an upper arm thicket, get the tat - about 3.25" tall. 'Tick hair will mostly cover it.

Did I mention I like to swim? Doing a mile out to a monument or beach accessible only by sea, then a mile back, is a nice morning. Opens your mind to all sorts of understandings. Yes, with fins and snorkel. I'm nuts but I'm not crazy.



Maybe down the road I'll backdrop the trident with a big hibiscus flower tattoo up over the shoulder. Yeah, chicks dig a guy who ain't afraid.

The wolf is shaved
So neat and trim, Red-
Riding hood is
Chasing him !

One on the right is similar to the logo for the UCSD Tritons.

I have several.

Ruger Tat
Ruger Tat 1 by Dave Steier,

Cthulhu Tat
Cthulhu Tat by Dave Steier

My latest. "Ripped Flesh bio mechanical"
Photo Dec 30, 7 53 03 PM by Dave Steier, on Flickr

Photo Jan 18, 1 47 35 PM by Dave Steier, on Flickr

Wow, page one sure is a shitshow.

So I have a lot of tattoos. Arms, chest, back, legs, lots.

As far as designs, you have to choose. It’s your body, your art. Is it something you’re proud to display? I have some tattoos that usually get a story started if I show them, is that what you want?

The biggest thing, and best advice I can give you is find a great tattoo artist. This has a meaning.

I have been tattooed by great artists, capable of amazing artwork. People given the ability to take your thoughts and perfectly express them on paper, however incapable of understanding the basics of how to run a tattoo machine. Best if intentions, but deep drags, and light grazes, making for a masterfailure. Incapable of tattooing an orange, let alone a human.
I have been tattooed by guys that can run a tattoo machine like you wouldn’t believe. Ink laid perfectly, never felt grinding or drilling. Too bad his art skills were stick families.

In all these years of being tattooed, I have only met one guy that is both an incredible artist, capable of amazing drawings. He can also run a tattoo machine better than anyone I have ever met. Ink in just the right layer, no light or dark areas. Perfect lines, awesome shading.

You need to find someone with BOTH those capabilities.

I seen a lot of sleeve tattoos on soldiers. And "in Memoriam" tattoos for buddies who were lost. The comments, above, on finding a good artist to do them really rings true. Some of the tats I've seen are not as good as they could have been.

The trident sounds like a good one - easy for the tattooist to copy, easy for the audience to understand what it is.

I've got several. Right after I got one on my forearm they changed our policy so I've had to wear long sleeves at work for the last ten years or so. It's irritating, but it's worth it for me.

Research your tattoo person before you get it done. Not the shop, the actual artist. Look through their portfolio of work and then actually talk with them to make sure you are on the same page on what you want and what it represents to you. A trident is a pretty simple tattoo, but simple things are shockingly easy to screw up. You're going to have it forever, so make sure it's right.

Don't sweat people who give you grief about getting some ink. It's your skin, not theirs. I advise people not to get anything they can't cover up in business casual and to start with something small and simple.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Just pull the one from Little Mermaid, seriously.

As a retired sailor, The SEAL Trident is not typically something I saw on SEALs.

Def do not want to be confused with any service branch. May carry myself as such but never served.

Like (the attached from) your trident reference. Hand grip detail yes, curved tines / forks, maybe not. We'll see. Thinking small enough to either let fade to obscurity or can be touched up later. The fewer initial design elements the better.

No color or shading; I favor crisp vector art of black on background.

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Originally posted by copaup:
I advise people not to get anything they can't cover up in business casual and to start with something small and simple.

Exactly. Thirty-five years in the making, not like I'm rushing into anything. Once the caveman deltoid hair grows back, it will be "in the history". It's for me and other swimmers. Our world of water, sometimes a speck an easy half mile or more from any safe spot to beach. Not many have considered it, but there are swimmers in their 70s and 80s who will swim in such long sessions they are sweating when they get out of the pool. Sweating even in a pool of 80˚ water.

There are times when I'm at table with multi-millionaire property developers. Even a billionaire (unique would be mild; he famously banned all offices from ordering pens and trash bags, distributing them only from corporate; saved himself $38k a year). Do not want distractions. Just plain vanilla presentation. Simple efficient solution and execution of their plans. If they cannot understand it in three sentences, they're in front of the wrong guy.

I have 19 of them with the oldest being done in 1987. Most have some type of meaning but some were just because.
Trident looks nice.

I'll reiterate the value of finding the right artist and don't be afraid to pay for the best work possible. Make sure that whatever you get is something you want to live with forever. I know a lot of people who got tattoos because they wanted one, not because they wanted the specific art. If it doesn't have deep meaning to you, you might disfavor it down the road. All of mine describe a historical time in my life that I want to immortalise.

If I ever were to get a tattoo it would look like a freckle.

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Originally posted by Woodman:

I like all of those, but prefer the middle. Nice and simple and clean.

I'm not into tattoos but wonder if you have to consider the intricacy of the design and how you expect it to age (weight gain, colors, skin conditions). Just curious.

i've got a killer whale on right calf, scorpion on the left.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Saw a guy on gutfeld. He said IF he got a neck tattoo it would say " I didn't get the job did I?"

when I was in the grocery biz, the local Monster energy drink rep had a Monster Temp tattoo on his neck,



worked with a guy that had full sleeves, he always wore a long sleeve shirt and had the sleeves buttoned, to cover them

he was cool about it,

Spent nearly two years in Southeast Asia, mostly Vietnam with side excursions to Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and a few other places. Time period was 1969 to 1971. I could easily have had my entire youthful body covered by the best quality artists for a couple of packs of Marlboro cigarettes and a few dollars in pocket change.

Never felt the urge to do so. Half-a-century later I'm still making it through life with no tattoos. Pretty good thing, in my opinion, because I see lots of others displaying really ugly splotches of ink in their wrinkled up worn out old hides, while my own body remains sleek and smooth and glorious.

When I left active duty in 1972 and joined the police department there was a very simple rule, any tattoo visible while in the duty uniform was a disqualifying factor. From what I've seen in recent years that is not as strict a rule as it once was, but times have changed repeatedly during my 7-plus decades and might do so again.

A Google image search will probably be more useful than 90% of the replies in a SIG Forum tattoo thread.

Also, check this out:

https://tattoobloq.com/trident...oo-designs-meanings/

While I don't really care about the "meanings" part, some of the tats are cool.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
A Google image search will probably be more useful than 90% of the replies in a SIG Forum tattoo thread.

Seeing how the original request was If anyone has a non-Navy trident tattoo, can you post it? Any any other tattoos you'd like to share? and no one has posted a trident, some may imagine what I've dredged up online. The internet generally sucks, although I did locate an almost ex-GF from decades ago on the barest of information, after recognizing her in a chance encounter at a post office 15 miles from here.

The posted composite of three came from three web sites [online]. The background was removed, the images turned into .pngs, scaled, then assembled on uniform background.

Lack of posted images, jokes, even the suggestion to find my answer somewhere else, is all itself an answer; knowledge helpful in the long run; often in my business the single most valuable answer can be, "I don't know". As Data of Star Trek TNG famously replied to to Picard and Riker: The beginning of wisdom is: I do not know ∆

That said, there have been a few nuggets of insightful wisdom shared, and I thank you.

Poseidon's [Poseidon = Greek / Roman equivalent = Neptune] trident, a fish spear, more often seems to have straight sides, as I prefer.




Poseidon with his trident, Corinthian plaque, 550–525 BC




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∆ Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 2 Episode 2 - Where Silence Has Lease
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eDYVtPwWiM