Ah, Fran has it totally right.

Lone Star: it’s not just the state nickname, it’s also the national beer of Texas.

I love me some Lone Star Beer. It’s what I’m sipping right now as a matter of fact. Mmmmm… Beer!

So, while in NYC I only managed to pick up one set of knuckle tattoos. I admit, I was awestruck by the city. But what a set. These beauties belong to Bailey, a tattoo artist at Fun City Tattoo. He kindly tooks some time out of his day to talk to us about his hands. He originally wanted to get STAY AWAY but decided to get something more positive, so he got HURT HEAL instead. After that he got “Dead Love” on his knuckles propper. Apparently shortly after that he found the love of his life.

He also gave us a break down on the various artists that contributed to his hands.

• Burt Krack – Eye and tears on his left hand.
• Will Lollie – Rose and Butterfly on the backs of his hands.
• Marcos – the lettering on HURT HEAL.
• Allan Rogers – the symbols and Hate on his lower knuckles.
• Tim Lehi – the spider on his palm.

What spider on his palm? Oh yeah…

Great find today! John T. of New York sends in this thorough set of knuckle tattoos. Pictures with his comments interspaced below:

In the first picture are my initials J & T on my pinkies,and some lucky charms.

The second picture is BABY LOVE, this started as a goof thing I used to say to my wife but the more I said it the more it stuck.

The third picture is my 6 & 5 which is my birth year along with 2 daggers.

The fourth picture is all of my hand tattoos the kanji are Pity on the right and Vengeance on the left.

All the tattoos were done by CIV at Lotus Tattoo in Sayville, New York.

Hey John, those are really great thanks for sending them in! And man that Lotus Tattoo site is really great. Check it out!

This is Mason, he found us over on our MySpace page. This is his story:

I got my knuckle tattoo after I became a father.
My life motto was “live fast, die young”. After my little girl was born it became “live hard, die old”. I’m getting “die old” on the knuckles below my “live hard”

Remember Lux Blue’s knuckles from last week? You know, LUCKY DEVIL? Well this is his shop sign and logo. Crushproof Pro Touring all the way. Killer cars and trucks for the cats and kittens. The sign was painted by Austin’s own tattooist, pinstriper and artist, Mike Adair.

This lovely young lady here is named Gretchen and this is what she has to say about her knuckle tattoo:

It’s for my cousin J.W. that’s in the Navy. He has an anchor on his arm. I never get to see him now that’s he’s in the Navy.

What a way to support the troops.

I met Aaron here at the last Texas Rollergirls match as well. He says that he is a gambler, thus the Aces Full. The 901 referrs to the area code of Memphis, TN, his home town. The KAN is an acronym for Kings A Nuthin’, a group of friends out of Memphis. Apparently they predated the band Kings of Nuthin’.