Fat Tom is a straight up dude and wants you to know it:

My story is pretty simple. I’m just a punk rocker and a skateboarder who has no job or money. I live on my friends couches and party but sometimes i get to travel. My life rules and I don’t plan on ever having a real job. P.S. let me know if i can use your couch! Thanks -Fat Tom

Melissa Marler sends us these knuckle tattoos:

I got this tattoo b/c I’m a seamstress and I have terrible luck with relationships.
Sewing is really the only love I get out of life…and I’m ok with that. :)

Hunter Ingersoll sends us this knuckle tattoo:

sitting in class doodling, kept drawing a lightning bolt. Class dismissed, “cherry bomb” tattoo shop in martinsburg, wv, lightning bolt tattood on middle finger. end of story. no meaning but i dig it. tat has faded a lot since pic but going to get it touched up soon

Mike Ruff sends us theses:

the reasoning behind me getting “RUFF LIFE”  on my knucks was because Ruff is my last name and it just fit well together…besides…i’ve had a pretty “ruff life”

Mike Ruff

Hello from Tattoosday.

Thanks to Nathan for allowing me to contribute directly to KnuckleTattoos.com!

I wanted to share an interesting story involving knuckle tattoos that appeared originally, an an expanded form, here on Tattoosday.

In early October,  I met Joel, a writer and a marketing director for an artist management and development company.

Joel couldn’t tell me how many tattoos he has (he has that many), but he did share two of them with me, one of which appears across four of his knuckles.

This is one of his more recent tattoos, and one of his most important:

It’s an interesting and unusual take on the knuckle tattoo. Rather than the 4×4 knuckle piece, it’s a 2×2, with the letters “M” and “C” on the right hand and the numbers “5″ and “9″ on the left. When the fists come together, the MC 59 display, representing Mike Conley and the year 1959, when Mike was born.

Joel described Mike as his best friend, who died tragically in February of this year after falling and hitting his head in a parking lot of a Chicago motel. Mike introduced Joel to the work of Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac, and to the music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. He was the owner of The Avalon Bar in Costa Mesa, California. I could see the sadness in the eyes of Joel, as he recalled the friend that was taken from life
too soon. Joel said “I’m never gonna be over it.”

This was inked by Hek at HB Tattoo in Huntington Beach.

I learned later, by visiting the Mike Conley Family Memorial Fund website, that Mike was a founding member of the Southern California punk band M.I.A. (Not to be confused with the hip hop artist of the same name.)

I encourage folks to visit the website and, if so moved, to make a donation. There are links to some nice articles about Mike and his influence on the music scene.

Once again, I’d like to thank Joel for his contribution to Tattoosday and, subsequently, KnuckleTattoos.com.

I look forward to contributing more knuckle art, freshly photographed, from the streets of New York City in the future.

Eric is a scrapper, no doubt about it:

The way i grew up was, ‘beat ass or get your ass beatin’
SOMETIMES it goes a little both ways hence the shiner hahaha
Good times over all  =)

eRiC

Justin Ruggles sends us these reminders to get out there and get to work:

These are my knuckle tattoo hard work pays off there upside down so that there read to me its a self motivator to remind me to just that through hard times I’m going through at this point in life and thing will get better the harder I work