Ash Feather
Sable Ines · blackwork
- Flat
- $260
- Chair
- 45 min
- Drawn at
- 3–4 in
Available
James Street North, Hamilton · tattoo & piercing
Nobody should have to book a tattoo in a DM.
Every piece on this page is one of one. Hold it, see the deposit and the chair time before you commit, and the whole brief lands on the artist's bench already answered — placement, size, budget, references. No thread of unread messages. No "hey, still interested?"
Open now The front desk is on until 8:00 PM
Drop 019 · Corvid Season
12 of twelve pieces still unclaimed
Drop 020 lands in a few days
Every booking, same rules
- $140deposit, comes off the last session
- 72 hoursnotice to move an appointment
- 18+photo ID, every visit, no exceptions
The drop board
Twelve pieces. Each one gets tattooed once.
Flash goes fast because everyone is messaging at once and nobody can see what is already gone. Here you can. Pick a piece, tell us where it is going, and the board holds it for you for 24 hours while the deposit is arranged.
Showing all twelve pieces.
Half Moon Cage
Cass Moreau · dotwork
- Flat
- $280
- Chair
- 1 hr
- Drawn at
- 3 in
Available
Thorn Cuff
Juno Bhatt · fine line
- Flat
- $340
- Chair
- 1 hr 30
- Drawn at
- wraps 4–5 in
Available
Signal Fire
Rook Delaney · neo-traditional
- Flat
- $420
- Chair
- 2 hr
- Drawn at
- 5 in
Available
Tide Lines
Cass Moreau · dotwork
- Flat
- $240
- Chair
- 45 min
- Drawn at
- 4 in
Available
Corvid Key
Sable Ines · ornamental
- Flat
- $380
- Chair
- 1 hr 45
- Drawn at
- 4 in
Available
Night Bloom
Juno Bhatt · botanical
- Flat
- $300
- Chair
- 1 hr 15
- Drawn at
- 3.5 in
Available
Static Halo
Cass Moreau · geometric
- Flat
- $260
- Chair
- 1 hr
- Drawn at
- 3 in
Available
Long Wing
Sable Ines · blackwork
- Flat
- $460
- Chair
- 2 hr 15
- Drawn at
- 6 in
Available
Old Compass
Rook Delaney · neo-traditional
- Flat
- $400
- Chair
- 2 hr
- Drawn at
- 5 in
Available
Ink Drop
Teodor Vance · solid black
- Flat
- $220
- Chair
- 40 min
- Drawn at
- 2.5 in
Available
Rope & Ring
Teodor Vance · traditional
- Flat
- $320
- Chair
- 1 hr 30
- Drawn at
- 4 in
Available
The bench
Six people, and honest books.
If someone's books are closed we say so on the page instead of letting you write a paragraph into a void. Waitlist numbers are the real ones from the front desk board.
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Sable Ines
Blackwork & ornamental · heavy black, negative space, ornamental cuffs
Books open · about 3 weeks out
Takes large-scale black projects across multiple sittings. Four pieces in this drop.
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Rook Delaney
Neo-traditional · bold line, limited palette, animals and objects
Books closed until September · waitlist only
Flash from the drop still books — those are already drawn, so they slot into cancellations.
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Juno Bhatt
Fine line & botanical · single-needle plants, small script-free work
Books open · about 5 weeks out
Will tell you honestly when a design is too fine to hold up on that spot for twenty years.
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Cass Moreau
Dotwork & geometric · stipple shading, mandalas, symmetry work
Books open · about 2 weeks out
Fastest turnaround on the bench. Runs the Thursday walk-in bench for small work.
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Teodor Vance
Script, lettering & cover-ups · traditional solid black, reworks
Books open · about 4 weeks out
Cover-ups always start with a consultation and a photo in daylight. Never quoted from a screenshot.
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Piercing rules
Wren Adisa
Piercing & jewellery · implant-grade titanium and solid gold only
Walk-in Thursday to Sunday · no appointment
Piercings are not part of the flash drop. Same ID rules, same aftercare schedule in the app.
Healed, not fresh
Anything looks sharp on day one.
A tattoo photographed an hour after it is finished is still swollen, still wet, still lined in fresh red skin. Six months later the black has settled a shade lighter and every thin line has softened by the width of a hair. That is the picture worth judging an artist on, so that is the picture we put up.
Drag the handle — or use the arrow keys on it — to move between the two. The artwork is drawn for this concept; the skin is a photograph.
Roughly half day-one work, half healed work.
Long Wing · outer forearm · healed at 7 months
Illustrative rendering. Real healing depends on placement, skin and how well the aftercare is followed — which is why the app nags you about it for a month.
Custom work
Tell us the whole thing once.
Most studios lose two days going back and forth for details you already knew. Answer it all here and the brief arrives at the bench complete, routed to whoever actually does that kind of work.
How we book
The rules, in the order you'll hit them.
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The deposit
$140 to hold any appointment. It is not an extra fee — it comes off the final session. It is non-refundable, and it moves with you if you give us 72 hours. Inside 72 hours it stays with the artist, because that chair cannot be refilled in a day.
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Age and ID
18 and over, government photo ID, checked at every visit including your fifth one. We do not tattoo minors with a parent present. We do not tattoo anyone who has been drinking.
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Drawing time
Custom pieces get drawn in the week before your appointment. You see it the morning of, and one round of changes happens in the chair. Redraws after that move the appointment.
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Aftercare
Second-skin for four days, then wash twice daily and a thin lotion. The full day-by-day schedule lands in the client app the moment the session is closed out, and it keeps pace with your actual healing.
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Touch-ups
One free touch-up between week six and month six, half an hour, booked in the app. Hands, feet and fingers are excluded — they always drop ink and everyone gets told that before the needle goes anywhere near them.
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Piercing
Walk in Thursday to Sunday, no appointment. Implant-grade titanium or solid gold only — we will not fit jewellery you brought from elsewhere unless it meets the same standard.
Blackbird Tattoo is a fictional studio built by ArrowSpade to show an interface. The policies above are written to look like a real shop's policies, but this is a demonstration — no appointment, deposit, consent or piercing is real, and nothing here is medical advice.
Visit
Find the room.
Ground floor, black brick, one bench and a lamp. Come in to talk about a piece any time we're open — a consultation costs nothing and takes about twenty minutes.
Right now
Open
Closes at 8:00 PM
Read from your own device clock.
Hours
| Monday | Closed · private consults |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Thursday | 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM |
| Friday | 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM |
| Saturday | 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM |
| Sunday | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM |
Where
Sample address
James Street North, Hamilton, Ontario
Concept address and contact details — not a real studio.
