| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Subject | Tahiti Felix's Master Tattoo (Hobart) |
| Type | Shop |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Location | Shop 1, 55 Elizabeth Street Mall, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Date | 2012 CE |
| Style / Technique | Old-school American traditional flash; a working parlour and walk-in flash museum |
| Connected to | Tahiti Felix's Master Tattoo, Tahiti Felix Lynch, Cindy Ray (Bev Robinson) |
Archive Note
Tahiti Felix Lynch opened the first Master Tattoo parlour in San Diego, California, in 1949. The Hobart shop is the second business to carry the name. According to the shop's own history page, it began in 2012, when a tattooer the shop calls "Tahiti Gil" was invited to guest in Hobart, Tasmania, then partnered as creative director with the existing owner to convert a studio formerly called Hellfire Tattoo into Tahiti Felix's Master Tattoo. The shop presents this as the official Australian branch of the San Diego business.
The Hobart parlour sits at Shop 1, 55 Elizabeth Street Mall, in the city's central business district. It is open daily, reported as 10am to 5pm. As of 2026 it is artist owned and operated, with Uber Ben among the named operators and a working crew that has included Ravi Maharjan, Jordan Hooper, and others. The shop covers both old-school traditional designs and full custom work.
The business leans on its lineage as a selling point. It describes itself as the second-oldest operating tattoo parlour by name in North America and now in Australia. That claim rests on the 1949 San Diego founding date carried over to the Hobart sign, not on a 1949 start in Tasmania, so it is best read as a branding line rather than a claim that a parlour has run in Hobart since 1949. The Hobart trading history under this name dates to 2012.
Museum framing runs through the brand. The associated Facebook page trades as "Tahiti Felix's Master Tattoo & Museum Est. 1949," and the shop says it promotes the history of tattooing through vintage flash, trade and sketch books, and tattoo artifacts loaned to museum exhibitions. Visitors to the Hobart mall location encounter old-school flash on display alongside the working stations. The connection to the San Diego original and to founder Tahiti Felix Lynch is the spine of the whole presentation, from the painted sign to the marketing copy.