Gonna go and do it.

[tradrockrat]

So Red and I have been quietly debating on tattoos for a while and finally decided to go ahead and get it done. I put off tats for a long time cause I need it to be more than a HD symbol or MOM but think I finally got something I'll like to see for a lifetime.

I'll let Molly decide if she wants to share hers while it's still in the design stage. I'm hopin to have it done by Hill Country ride.

Been over 18 years in the making of this decision. This will go on my left arm.

The crossed swords are representative of the martial art I have studied since I was 8 years old. - too much to explain in one post.

The left facing hawk is a transposed hawk from my family crest cause I've always gone the "other" way from my family. The wings are extended rather than folded because I am a traveller.

The crest is just that - my family crest

the word Cearbhaill is the Gaelic spelling of my last name - Carroll

The family motto is left off because I am changing my motto - legally through the registry of names in Ireland. It will later be tattooed on my left forearm

It all goes on my left arm because I am left handed.

[FATboy05]

Very cool, very unique, does what tats are supposed to do, tells something about the wearer's life, nice!

[curley725]

Originally Posted by FATboy05

Very cool, very unique, does what tats are supposed to do, tells something about the wearer's life, nice!

That is a cool design...........If like what 05 said it tells something about the wearer's life mine would have to be a square peg trying to fit in a round hole.. I alway's went to the beat of a different drummer failing miserably to please my folk's... It just didn't take... :grin:

Curley

[speed]

Groovy.

SM

[ellymay]

Very sharp looking. I like it Dan. :grin:

[Kate]

Wow.. I really want to see that one done!!

[Hellswraith]

Cool idea and well planned Trad .. Much more thoughtful than drinking 32 beers at the bar then heading over to the tattoo studio to get inked ...

No one I know has ever done that btw ...

:mrgreen:

[tradrockrat]

Originally Posted by Hellswraith

Cool idea and well planned Trad .. Much more thoughtful than drinking 32 beers at the bar then heading over to the tattoo studio to get inked ...

No one I know has ever done that btw ...

:mrgreen:

lmao - that's most likely how mine will get started though - small secret - I hate needles...

[Blackpearlultra]

Cool idea Trad...Be brave and get er done dude.

[Talisman]

Very cool symbology in your art work. I’ve never really took the plunge,
since I didn’t want to simply put something that permanent on my body
without it being something unique to me, and the things in my life that I felt most passionate about.

I like the crossed Kukri's. I assume that is symbolic of something along the lines of Bando?