Richard Blackman of Shud Up ‘n’ Train in Dallas, Texas sends us these knuckle tattoos and his story:

The story behind it is that I’m a fitness trainer and everything I do goes against the grain, from diet to how I exercise, it’s the same in life too, I don’t do it on purpose life just ends up that way, so all my life I’ve had people look at me as extreme especially when they see my feats of strength, well, I struggled to accept that label in the beginning but now I’m taking it and running with it with all I got and I’m not going to hold myself back anymore from being me!….so I’m stepping up my game in everything I do and going “HARDCORE” and I had the tatts done as a constant reminder of what and who I am.

Ross Lapin sends us his knuckles with his story:

This tat confuses a lot of people because its 3 words, “NOT MY OWN” its pretty funny when people try to pronounce it as one word.

I was a little worried about a knuckle tat cause of job limitations, but whatever.

The significance is 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 it says “19:Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20:you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.”

Done by Cliff Willoughby of New Addiction Tattoos in Marietta, Ga. 9-6-08

Nick at Old Town Tatu in Chicago sends us his knuckles. The were inked by Tony at Old Town. When I asked him why he got them, his answer was:

I am the owner of the studio  and as for the got ink ?  we use it on t-shirts  so I thought it would be a great idea to do my knuckles with it

Check out their work at: www.oldtowntatu.com

These come from “doodoo shitpie” (that’s what his email address said anyways):

this reads “NotSober” its just my way of life if not physically enbree8ted then its mentally. the word has alot of heartfelt meaning well for me and my friend JIM JACK and JOSE they will always b e there for me

Andrew from Greece, NY sends us these knuckles:

i got HELL SENT acrost my knuckles because im pretty good at pissin people off and im not very P.c i get alot of people who say “i must be from hell or something” and it makes me happy to hear haha. hence my knux

Jim Madden sends us these hands:

I know this is a cliche knuckle tattoo, but my story behind it is my uncle and one of my best friends, who was a huge influence on everything i do today, had this exact tattoo on his knuckles, and he ended up committing suicide, so its kind of ironic…this is my way of remembering him, among others

Dan from Ontario thinks these speak for themselves. They were done at Memphis Underground, Chatham Ontario, Canada.