Salt & Iron · Duluth, Minnesota

Commission a Custom Piece.

Quote within one business day.

Fine-line and blackwork drawn for the placement you have in mind. Fill the card, attach a reference, and a real number comes back — not a guess, not a range, not another DM.

Call or text (555) 014-2290

Custom Commission Card

Replies in 1 business day

Tell me what you want on your skin.

$80 deposit locks your date Touch-ups free within 6 months

The Rate Card

Written down, so you are not guessing.

Every piece is quoted from the placement and the size, so these are starting points rather than a menu. Send the commission card and a real figure comes back for your specific idea.

Salt & Iron · Tattoo rates Duluth, MN

Fine-line & blackwork

Single-needle linework, whip shading and solid black fills. Small, precise and readable — built to hold its shape as it heals.

Starting at$160

Custom illustrative piece

Drawn from the ground up around your reference and your placement, then quoted before anything is booked.

Range$200 – $450

Half-day · 4 hours

Four hours in the chair — a mid-size piece, or one solid sitting on something larger.

Four hours$600

Full-day · 7 hours

Seven hours. Large-scale blackwork, an illustrative composition, or steady progress on a sleeve.

Seven hours$1,000

How It Works

Four steps, and the card does most of them.

No back-and-forth, no guessing. The commission card at the top of this page is the whole intake — everything after it is a straight line.

Send the commission card

Placement, size, style, budget and a reference image if you have one. It takes about two minutes.

Get your quote

A real number for your specific idea, back within one business day — not a range you have to chase.

Lock the date

An $80 deposit holds your slot in the book, and the drawing is finished before you sit down.

Sit and heal

One artist, one chair. If a line needs settling in within six months, the touch-up is free.

Tattoo bench with machine, ink caps and tracing paper under warm studio light — Studio bench — tracing paper, machine, one lamp on

Everything goes through one pair of hands. Salt & Iron is a solo studio in Duluth — the quote, the drawing and the tattoo all come from the same artist.

Service Area

Coming in from the Twin Ports and up the shore.

Clients come in from across the Twin Ports and up the North Shore. If you are inside the map below, you are in the studio's range.

Studio Map · Twin Ports Duluth, MN

Duluth
Superior
Hermantown
Cloquet
Two Harbors
Proctor
St. Louis County, MN
Douglas County, WI

The studio sits in Duluth, a short drive from the harbor and the bridge. Clients travel in from Superior, Hermantown, Cloquet, Two Harbors and Proctor — and from across St. Louis County and Douglas County.

Duluth harbor and lift bridge under cold winter light with ice along the water — Cold light off the lake — Duluth, Minnesota

Artist's gloved hands steadying a tattoo machine over a client's forearm on the studio bench — Fine-line in progress — Salt & Iron

The Artist

One artist, one chair, one line at a time.

I'm Dez. Salt & Iron is a solo studio in Duluth — I draw the piece, quote the piece and tattoo the piece, so nothing gets lost in the middle. Fine-line and blackwork most days, custom illustrative work when the idea asks for it.

If you already know your placement, your rough size and roughly what you want to spend, the commission card at the top of this page gets you a straight answer. Send a reference if you have one, and leave the notes wide open if you don't — both work.

Dez · Salt & Iron

Healed fine-line blackwork tattoo detail on an ankle in soft daylight

Healed work on an ankle, in daylight — the line is the part that has to hold.

Ready When You Are

Your Skin. My Lines. One Quote.

Fill the commission card — placement, size, style, budget, and a reference if you have one — and a real quote comes back within one business day.

Request Custom Quote Call (555) 014-2290

Serving Duluth & the Twin Ports $80 deposit holds your date Touch-ups free within 6 months