Steve Haworth

Just in time for APP and Hell City, Steve is unveiling new implant designs.

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For everyone who has asked to be implanted with suspension hooks, Steve has come up with a silicone way of doing so. These are modeled from and with the exact same dimensions as an 8 gauge suspension hook.

Next is this elegant starfish design, two inches in size.

And finally, new “brass knuckle” silicone implants – one life-sized for chest placement (4 and 3/4 by 3 inches) and another smaller design more appropriate for hands (2 and 1/2 by 1 and 1/2 inches).

Steve’s hand shows the relative sizes of the two implants.

Dani has been getting modified for over ten years now. Two of her more recent modifications include transdermal antenna as well as ear pointing. Below I have included a picture of both left and right ears after pointing and one before picture in the middle to show the contrast. Danny has also had her tongue split and of course her cross implant in the center of her chest.

Katri had me point her ears while on our European trip.  She says these photos were taken approximately three weeks after the work was completed.  The vast majority of the work I do is done while traveling so it’s not often than I have the opportunity to see/photograph the fully healed work.  I ask everybody if they would please e-mail me photos and they always say they will but unfortunately not very many people actually do. Katri sent me the great photos below, thank you Katri!

Katri's ear pointing

While traveling abroad I had the honor of doing a scarification piece on a Lutheran Priest. I have done lots of work on religious figures in the past, but these were usually small and places that were easily concealed. CooKie spoke with the Priest about the idea and concepts of the design as well as the creation of the design and the CooKie did a beautiful job. Likewise the priest also did it beautiful job of being very calm during the work. Ironically this piece is done in Calm body piercing in Stockholm in which Chai and his partner graciously allowed us to use their studio. As you know I very rarely put up pictures of fresh work, I prefer healed work and am looking forward to getting a healed photo of this piece but I thought the story behind it was worth the premature post.

Scarification piece on a Lutheran Priest

J.D. is a very accomplished piercer, and also very Irish hence three leaf clover. We designed a 3 leaf clover using 3 1/2 hearts silicone glued together. This picture is about 3 1/2 months old. Oh did I mention he’s also a professional martial arts expert? I really like the piece and I really like the fact that a professional fighter properly wrapping a 3-D modification during martial arts training does not hamper or impede his lifestyle. One of the reasons why I am a proponent of cast silicone in the back of the hand. We also did some scarification on his face and forehead.

jd-clover

I don’t mean to brag but being able to have your entire set up rig, hooks and links fit into the same sterilization bag is pretty cool.  I do understand the necessity for everything to be disassembled to be properly sterilized I just have everything assembled to show the point.  The polished rigs will be up on my eBay site around the middle of next week and will be $60.  The long twisted shackles in the picture with the pink rig retail for about $21 each and are rated for 1320 pounds each.  The short twisted shackles in the stainless rig picture retail for about $12 each but are rated for 500 pounds each. I will not supply the twisted shackles but I will direct people to web sites that carry them. I have the hell city tattoo convention this weekend and then we leave for Europe on the 14th so I have a lot of work on my plate before I leave.  I will not be able to take care of any powder coating until I get back from Europe on the seventh of October.

Gilson hooh rig

Gilson rig

Loran and Alyssa are visiting from upstate New York for the Hell City tattoo convention.  Alyssa had commissioned a pair of stars three months ago and they have healed up nicely!

Alyssa's stars

Oak is a very old friend of mine of more than ten years.  He and his wife Bleu own Painted Temple in Provo Utah which is one of the more amazing tattoo shops I’ve been in both in artists and beauty.  The arm spines in the picture below are now resting comfortably in his forearm.

Oak's arm spines

Oak's arm spines

It is said that the weakest point in suspension rigging is the rope, so why not eliminate it. I designed this rig to work with two Gilson/SHS hooks as shown using two twist shackles which have a weight rating of 1320 pounds each. This design can also be used with rope as the rig itself has very smooth rounded edges on every single surface. I will have these available in about three weeks in polished stainless at the cost of $60 each. The one shown is powder coated pink (obviously for CooKie). Powder coating will be an additional $20. Both the stainless and powder coated versions can be autoclaved. I have had the rig Tensile tested at a metallurgy laboratory and the breaking load was 6422 pounds. Which means that the unofficial static weight rating divided by the typical 5 times for instruments used for lifting people would be 1284.4 pounds. This does not include the dynamic rating but I believe if my calculations are correct the dynamic rating would be somewhere around 400 pounds?

hook rig

Second generation heavy duty Gilson/SHS hooks incorporating a tools free design with a mirror finish. Shackles and hardware are stainless steel and can be autoclaved. The pin is 6 4 titanium with extra long needle guides designed to use 8 gauge needles and taper to 6 gauge and can also be autoclaved. These hooks have been designed to only work with D ring shackles, not quick links. I now have them available in my eBay store http://stores.ebay.com/Steves-Kaos-Connection-Body-Jewelry tomorrow I will show photos of a specially designed rig made specifically for 2 Gilson/SHS hooks which will be available in about three weeks.

Gilson/SHS second generation hooks