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High Quality Custom Tattoo Machines and Custom Tattoo Machine Frames

Made by professionals for professionals.

  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen a Walker style frame with shader geometry, which includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance eight wrap 24 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for a shader, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen a Walker Cutback style frame with Liner geometry, which includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance eight wrap 24 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for a shader, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. https://youtu.be/AhObYoIJga0 ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen a Walker Style Combo frame with shader geometry, which includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance eight wrap 24 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for a shader, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen a Walker Style Combo frame with Liner geometry, which includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance eight wrap 24 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for a shader, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen a Rogers J-Frame Style frame with Smashback liner geometry, which includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance eight wrap 24 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for a shader, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen a Rogers J-Frame style frame with shader geometry, which includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance eight wrap 24 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for a shader, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers needs. You have chosen a Ductile Iron Rogers J-Frame Mini Smashback Stinger with liner geometry, which includes six wrap 22 AWG hand wound coils. The following three elements, frame style, geometry and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of. For instance six wrap 22 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for an outliner, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section. The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc. For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Prof. Incredulous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzsvm4sJxA&rel=0 ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen a Jenson style frame with outliner geometry, which includes six wrap 22 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance six wrap 22 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for an outliner, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. https://youtu.be/nzrlWL_oq48 ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen a Jenson style frame with shader geometry, which includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance eight wrap 24 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for a shader, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers desired needs. You have chosen the Coleman Widow Style Combo frame with three different geometry configurations to choose from, which includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils. These three elements, frame style, geometry, and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of.  For instance eight wrap 24 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for a shader, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section.  The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only.  They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.  For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous. https://youtu.be/dJ3at2ggWOY ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.
  • Defiance Mfg. specializes in custom building a dependable everyday use tattoo machine personalized to each customers needs. You have chosen a Ductile Iron Coleman Widow style Combo frame with two liner geometry options, which includes six wrap 22 AWG hand wound coils with 1 1/8"x3/8"cores.The following three elements, frame style, geometry and coil size are a basic starting point to build off of. For instance six wrap 22 AWG coils, which is a standard coil size for an outliner, can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request in the additional notes section. The rest of the following menu options listed below, are predominantly limited to aesthetics only. They do not offer detailed specifications along the lines of mechanics, tuning, capacitor size, spring gauges, etc.   For a truly custom tool to be built to your specifications, you must be available for a verbal discussion, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Prof. Incredulous. https://youtu.be/dJ3at2ggWOY ATTENTION: You must select one of each of the options below for your custom build order to be added to your cart.

Defiance Manufacturing has been a strong competitive force, and a respected name in the tattoo industry for over a decade. synonymous with the building and manufacturing of meticulously built dependable custom tattoo machines, custom tattoo machine frames, and tattoo machine parts. The success of a tattoo artist depends entirely on their innate talent, skills, and experience as well as the custom tattoo machines they utilize in order to transform their tattoo designs into stunning works of art in the skin. At Defiance Manufacturing we believe that professional tattoo artists should have equipment that is hand crafted to their specifications. Defiance Manufacturing offers high quality custom electromagnetic and rotary tattoo machines and custom tattoo machine frames specially made for the discerning demands of the modern tattoo artist.

Over 140 years to the day the great American inventor Thomas Edison created the first ever electric pen that was used to speed up the creation of duplicate copies of content. Little did he know that within the span of just a decade and a half American Sam O’Reilly in 1851 would develop the first ink tube and needle system that would convert his electric pens, known as Stencil-Pens, into electromagnetic custom tattoo machines.  20 days after filing for his patent, Thomas Riley in London patented the world’s first single-coil electromagnetic tattoo machine. Soon after that, Alfred Charles South another Brit created the first double-coil electromagnetic tattoo machine. The groundbreaking ideas from the founders of custom tattoo machines laid the foundation for the modern tattooing approach we all know and love today. Since those heady days, custom tattoo machines have come a long way to make life easier for tattoo artists in order to transmit their beautiful works of art onto the client’s skin.

Custom tattoo machines are special made-to-order hand-held devices that tattoo artists use in order to “engrave” images or tattoos onto their client’s skin. Before the advent of custom tattoo machines and custom tattoo frames, tattooer’s had to resort to ancient hand methods of tattooing such as using sharpened bone, wood, stone, metal blades, and eventually needles, wire, and even guitar string in order to apply a tattoo. While there are respected methods of traditional tattooing that still honor this approach. Modern tattoo artists now prefer to use custom electromagnetic, and rotary tattoo machines in order to improve the tattoo process making it more sterile, faster, and more efficient for the benefit of the client as well as to reduce the painful sensations associated with the tattoo process. As with any artistically creative process, tattoo artists will use many kinds of tattoo machines, and needle configurations, just like a painter would use different brushes to apply the pigment onto the canvas.

Electromagnetic Coil Tattoo Machine – This type of machine is considered to be the original traditional mechanized method of tattooing and still the most commonly used. Over the years most of the traditional electromagnetic tattoo machine frame styles have stayed the same, while today’s custom tattoo machine builders keep pushing the envelope of design and aesthetic. These changes are usually made by altering coil configurations, frame styles and geometry, and decorative aesthetic looks of the machine overall is the popular trend.

Rotary Tattoo Machine – These Machines are powered by an electric motor, the motors can be internally engendered for various torques, and rpm speeds. These internal engineering specifications create a variety of functionality differences from a direct drive, to spring action configurations, a slider function, to a swash drive. Most models are designed to be compact, lightweight, and priced reasonably from economically to mid-range, to high end models commanding high prices.

Pneumatic Tattoo Machine – this is more of an entire system rather than just a tattoo machine, and is the in pricier high end category of tattoo equipment, that is not as commonly used. It uses an air compressor to function and requires maintenance, It is extremely lightweight and can be easily sterilized and placed in an autoclave without having to undergo any major disassembly.

Liner Tattoo Machine – A tattoo machine specifically designed to apply line work within a tattoo, with the use of round grouping needles, preferably within a signal pass.

Shader Tattoo Machine – Used commonly to shade black or different variants of black ink to achieve gradations of solid black, mid tones, and soft light grey’s, mostly used in tattoo styles like realism, portraits, black work, stippling, geometric, and tribal.

Cutback – A common variation of tattoo machine frames by altering the geometry of the front binding post, enabling the contact screw to be center directly above the front coil, used commonly on liners but is also known to be utilized to creat a faster running shader or color packing machines. Cutback geometry results in a faster running tattoo machine.

At Defiance Manufacturing you can rest assured that you will receive only the highest quality custom tattoo machines and custom tattoo machine frames to start elevating your tattoos to the next level. We use only the highest quality materials and apply very stringent quality control methods with every custom tattoo machine we create. Our objective is to provide tattoo artists with the finest high-end custom tattoo machines and custom tattoo machine frames to create stunning dermagraphic works of art for their clients. Let Defiance Manufacturing transform your tattooing with our state of the art custom tattoo machines and custom tattoo frames designed to your specifications.

Here at Defiance Manufacturing our specialty focuses on providing professional tattoo artists with dependable everyday use custom tattoo machines, for long term consistent dependability. First the three fundamental qualities of the machine must be chosen, frame geometry, frame style, and coil configuration, these are the basic building blocks to start a custom build. Eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils are the standard size and configuration for a shader, this configuration can be changed to a preferred coil size upon written request. The rest of the options are for aesthetic purposes only. If you want a truly custom built tool made according to your personal specifications, you need to be available for a verbal conversation, or email correspondence with our in-house machine builder Professor Incredulous.

Coleman Widow Style Combo Liner – This comes with three geometric configurations to choose from which includes, set up with liner geometry, six wrap 22 AWG hand wound coils with 1 1/8”x3/8” pure iron cores, 2” pure iron speed-bar, 22uF capacitor, 18 gauge front and rear springs, this machine runs at a speed of 120cps at 7 volts.

Coleman Widow Style Combo Shader – This comes with three geometric configurations to choose from which includes
set up with shader geometry, eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils, with 1 1/8”x3/8” pure iron cores, 2” pure iron armature bar, 47uF capacitor, 18 gauge front and rear springs, this machine runs at a speed of 95cps at 7 volts.

Jensen Style Shader – This Jensen style shader includes eight wrap 24 AWG hand wound coils, with 1 1/8”x3/8” low carbon steel cores, 2” low carbon steel armature bar, 47uF capacitor, 18 gauge front and rear springs, this machine runs at a speed of 95cps at 7 volts.

At Defiance Manufacturing we mostly work within the more traditional design of frames and our emphasis is more on the quality of the materials. Early tattoo machine builders used ductile iron and low quality carbon steel which did not last long.  Here at Defiance Manufacturing we use only the best materials combined with the highest quality craftsmanship. Our custom tattoo machine frames are CNC machined, brazed or tig welded, with your choice of powder coat, oil blackened, black oxide or brown oxide frame treatments.  When ordering from us we would request that you specify which you prefer so we can provide you a truly custom-made product for your needs. In order to serve your unique requirements, we are allowing alterations to the available preexisting frames being offered, at an agreed upon cost to truly make you an authentic custom tattoo machine frame that you can be proud of.

Here at Defiance Manufacturing we believe in preserving the integrity of our custom tattoo machines and we strive to ensure it is only used by professionals as it is made for professionals. As part of our sales policy we only sell to professional tattoo artists only. If you are interested in getting our custom tattoo machines and custom tattoo frames we will need to verify that you are indeed a professional tattoo artist. A legitimate shop address and phone number of your place of work, website, and proof of license as well as previous customer referral information are required. Any customer that is not able to provide the information for verification purposes will not be able to make a purchase at our store.

At Defiance Manufacturing we take our work very seriously in order to ensure that what we are making is at par with all our customers’ specifications. Our in house machine builder will speak to each customer ordering a custom build prior to any work being done. We shall get crystal clear specifications of your machine from you during this conversation. Please do try your best to articulate to our in house builder what you are looking for in the custom build. Any additional costs will also be discussed and we shall provide you with an estimated sub-total that will require your approval. Before finalizing the order a brief recap as well as an itemized invoice will be emailed to you, describing the specifications involved for you to review, upon which any incurred costs needs to be settled first prior to start of the custom work. At Defiance Manufacturing it is our goal to provide you with authentic high quality custom tattoo machines that you can be proud of.

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