As a young boy I liked to draw as most children do, by age five I was drawing snowmobiles, Peterbuilt trucks and snowmobiles in realistic detail. By the age of ten I had begun to draw war scenes and found a fondness for comic book style art and characters. At the age of twelve my life long mentor "Chet" took me for a ride on his flamed out Harley Davidson Softail, and he let me take the bars. As I took the bars of a Harley Davidson for the first I noticed a tattoo on Chet's inner forearm, A skeleton riding a Harley with the number thirteen above it.
    That image was forever engraved in my DNA, not my mind my DNA. I found myself fascinated not only with that tattoos but with bikes, American bikes. It was then that I knew I needed them both tattoos and bikes, I was twelve. Later on as a teenager failing miserably through high school I continued to draw and develop my artistic skill. It was at this time that a guy I had known who was already out of school and I started hanging out. I learned that he had apprenticed to be a tattoo artist and he agreed to take me on as his apprentice, I jumped ever so high on that regard.