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Used to be, you could only trust maybe a shop or two in Santa Fe. In the old days, there was Four Star Tattoo owned by Dawn Purnell and Mark Vigil, who carried on the work started by the late, great tattooer Bill Wissman. It was unequivocally the best (with respect to other shops that were pretty OK, but not the best). Purnell eventually peeled off to open Dawn's Custom and apprentice artists of her own; Vigil continued the work at Four Star, training a new generation of artists like Scott Buffington, J. Green, Crowe B. Rising (who runs the private studio Talis Fortuna), Jeffrey Pitt (also a private studio owner) and newcomer Miguel Chavez, as did Purnell. Both would welcome guest artists who became part of the family (like Guido Baldini at Four Star, who'd go on to open Lost Cowboy with his apprentice Owen Lostetter, now a kickass artist in his own right) and Amelia Albright at Dawn's Custom—and someplace within all of that, a young artist named Zac Scheinbaum learned the trade.