Tattoo Services

• Color Tattoos
  Hi my name is Eric Von Dar, I grew up in Allentown Pennsylvania and started my apprenticeship for Tattooing in 1980 with a well-known tattoo artist peter eagle. I had a full extensive apprenticeship for two years, from 1982 to 1984 I worked with Peter eagle in Allentown Pennsylvania.in September 1984 I moved to Chambersburg Pennsylvania where I opened up my own tattoo studio Elite Tattoo LLC I owned and operated that establishment until 2017 My experience starting my apprenticeship WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT FROM OTHER TATTOO ARTISTS, over 40 years of experience. when I first started my apprenticeship in 1981 learning or getting into tattooing was a secret society. Getting a tattoo by a good artist was a shot in the dark in that time. I just happen to go to the right place at the right time in Allentown PA,the artist name was Peter Eagle (God rest his soul) After receiving a couple tattoos from him he saw some talent in me. And asked if I could help out on the weekends in the shop. He then proceeded to tell me if I wanted to learn this trade I would have to devote all my time and be in the studio all the hours he is open. So we came to an agreement I would work in the studio 12 to 6 monday through Saturday and work at night bartending 630 till 3 AM. Monday through Saturday. Apprenticeships back in that time you did not get paid while you were in the process of learning. You paid him to learn. The first year your duties were signing people up cleaning the studio making errands talking to customers. Six months into this process you would start to learn how to check needles with an eye loop we used number 12 sewing needles (later on we found and used stainless steel bug pins) and we had to make sure there were no burs or hooks on them, before we would solder them in groups of ones,threes, fives, and six flat for shading. That was the art and skill of making and soldering needle groups,and soldering them on needle bars. Then you would clean them packed them and then autoclave them (sterilize) After about nine months you would learn how to cut stencils with a pin vice scribe onto acetate (plastic) there was no paper stencils back in that time, we would rub graphite on the grooves on the stencil to apply to the skin. (Cutting stencils was I high skill job) you would also learn how to color flash and shade on flash like you would on skin (flash back then had no color ) Next I would learn how to mix color tattoo dye it was all in powder form except black. Back then you mixed it with Listerine and a little bit of glycerin.(except violet you used rubbing alcohol ) At about the year point you would learn how to take apart tattoo machines ( they are not called tattoo guns ) put them back together wrap coils, cut front and back springs, solder on capacitors, and then finally fine tune your machine. It would be over a year before you would pick up the machine and actually start tattooing and the first person that you Tattoo is yourself. My total apprenticeship wa
• Tattoos
  I would say my interest in tattoos all began in 1976. It was in Stamford, CT. where I was friends with Tony Esposito, who was just getting started with tattooing. I decided to volunteer my arm and so wound up with my first tattoo. I watched him tattoo lots of people, well into the 80's, paying close attention the whole time. In 1977 I also wandered into Big Joe’s Tattoo Parlor in Mount Vernon, NY. Although I had no real thoughts of being a tattoo artist then, “The Experience†I had there had always made me say to myself, “I’d like to have a place like this someday. Chicks, Tats, bikes, and everything I liked, what can I say?

Body Piercing

• Body Piercing
  Then the ball really got rolling, and I was open for business legally and still operating the pressure cleaning business. After four months, I realized I couldn’t be out all morning doing the cleaning thing and then coming to the parlor. I sold the cleaning business in 95 and strictly did tattoos from then on. A year or two later, I met Todd Vargas. He needed to work a little while he was visiting a relative in Naples. So I gave him a chair to work in. We got talking about National ne day. I wanted to become a member, so he put the call in for me while he was here. One of the other challenges I was up against was the growing demand for body piercing. So as fate would have it, Nemesis, a piercing shop owner from Seattle, WA. wandered into my shop and wanted a place to start out. So we made a deal. I would learn piercing from him while he got established in the area. After a year or so,I felt comfortable with the body piercing, and a shop came open in Ft. Myers Beach, so Nemises moved on.

Beauty Services

• Permanent Makeup
  TATTOOS, BODY PIERCING, BODY MODIFICATIONS & PERMANENT MAKE UP BY EXPERTS AT NAPLES OLDEST AND MOST ESTABLISHED TATTOO AND PIERCING PARLOR