Ane Kruse sends us these knuckles:

this is my new knuckle tattoo, it´s homemade and rockin’! It doesn´t mean anything. AWESOME!

Hello,

My name is Smashley. I chose the ‘RUDE DAME’ knuckle tatts becasue, you see, I’m not exactly lady like. I drink, smoke, and curse like a f*cking sailor. There’s times where I can be a fiesty one when agitated. All in all, I’m actually sweet little gal that bites hard, when needed. So it can be considered a psyche-out. I’d actually consider it a warning. Teehee.

my name is Anya and this is my knuckle tattoo. it’s a little fallen out but that’s because i am a tattoo artist myself and i had to wear gloves while it was healing…
i got “spitfire” because i am a huge Prodigy fan and that’s the name of one of my most favorite songs by them. Also, Spitfire means “a female of a fiery temper” and well, that’s what i am :)

I’m Gina and my knuckles say “Stay gold”

I love to read and one of my favorite books is the outsiders. In the book there is a poem by Robert Frost which goes as follows;

Nature’s first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

The way it’s described in the book is that “Your gold when your a kid. When your a kid, everythings new. Like dawn, the way you dig sunsets, Ponyboy, that’s gold. Keep it that way, its a good way to be.”

I take it how nothing stays perfect or new forever but even though you will get older still keep your youth. Your spirit doesn’t have to age with your body. I got the tattoo because I’m 20 years old now which means (according to everyone else) that I’m getting older I’ve become an adult. I have a son and I think it’s the perfect time to solidify this statement that even though I’m growing up fast I’ll still be a kid at heart forever and that’s something nobody can take from me. Permanant ink just makes it that much clearer for the rest of the world.

I hate to do this (no, I REALLY hate to do this), but the hosting bill for the knuckle tattoo site is coming due, and because of certain realities in my life, it is going to be difficult to pay the bill. I am reaching out to y’all, my loyal readers and fellow knuckle heads. Please consider either buying a t-shirt (at http://knuckletattoos.spreadshirt.com/) or contributing to my web hosting bill at http://www.dreamhost.com/donate.cgi?id=15522. All proceeds go toward the hosting of this website.

Thanks for your consideration,

Nathan Black
@knuckle_tattoos
KnuckleTattoos.com
All knuckle tattoos, all the time.

Sarah Sin sends us these knuckle tattoos:

These are my knucks:

LIVE - I believe people should live the life they choose to live without judgement by others – we all have one life to live – our own. ‘Nuff said.

LOVE – Same logic behind LIVE – I don’t believe that anyone has the right to tell me who I can or cannot love – We are all human and should treat one another as such,

LIVE and let LOVE!

My name is Matt Holden. The other night my friend Sara was in town from Denver and we decided to get tattoos while she was here. We walked over to Vivid Tattoo in San Diego, saw Andrew and I walked away with a thumbs up on my middle finger. I love the irony of flipping the bird and also giving a thumbs up.

Sam Chronic sends us these knuckles and his story:

After finishing my sleeves and hands I realized I hit a true creative roadblock figuring something out for my knuckles. I wanted to avoid most of what I had seen on other people because either it did not represent me or it just seemed way too cliche.

I work as a year round employee of Netherworld Haunted House in Atlanta, GA doing everything from special effects to set design. Obviously I am a big fan of Halloween and horror in general and much of my tattoo work represents that world. One day I am working on an animated creature with music blasting as normal and suddenly The Misfits “Horror Business” begins to play. For whatever reason I stopped working and looked at my hands realizing I had just found the missing link in my knuckle tattoo design.

Sent the idea over to my friend and tattoo artist – Lew Hands @ Timeless Tattoo to see what he thought. There was some hesitation doing “HORROR BUSINESS” because while my hands are together the design works but each hand individually makes no sense. I pretty much persisted and was dead set on the idea being a huge Misfits fan as well as representing what I do for a living and am most passionate about.

Lew put his artistic touches on everything and suffice to say we are both stoked on the results of the tattoo.

Attached are both hands and my knuckle tattoos – all done by Lew Hands @ Timeless Tattoo in Atlanta, GA.

My name is Michael Sandlin and I am a tattooer from Livermore, Ca.  I have the words slow down across my knuckles to remind me to take a minute to enjoy the simple joys of life every now and then.  It is good to pump the brakes and smell the roses once in awhile.

My name is Topher Brown Suga Maurer. I just got OLOC on my right nucks. It stands for One Life One Chance. I am a manic depressive and I have been super down lately as well as making some bad choices, decided it was time to get myself under control and turn things around. I have a degree in physics so I took the pic for fun. lol. I have other tattoo’s but I have been wanting knuckle tatts for a while now.

I met Josh and Courtney the other day. Josh (pictured above) said that his knuckle tattoos described him in a word. Courtney just laughed and agreed. Her knuckle tattoos (below) are a collection of charms.

My name is Missi and I am proud to have Dinosaur tattooed on my knuckles. I had just moved out of my parents house and into an apartment with a high school friend. I was all excited about not having to listen to my parents or ask them permission so that’s when I got the idea of going to get another tattoo. My knuckles I had always wanted to get done, just didn’t know what to get when Dinosaur finally came to me. I have always loved dinosaurs ever since I was little and watching The Land Before Time. It was a spur of the moment thing. No thoughts about how I would get a better job in the future with knuckle tattoos. No thoughts of what’s it going to look like when i’m 80. Still to this day I don’t think about those things even though people that come into my work as me those questions. I’m proud of my tattoos and no one will ever change that.

We joke about getting this set at Knuckle Tattoo Central, it is sort of amazing to see it done in the flesh. Christopher, hats off to you. Here is his story:

Got this done when I  was 18 with needle and thread in my buddys garage after a long night of partying and im 23 now thinking bout gettin somthing else put over it but I’m not sure and thats how I came across this website.