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Get Inked!
Dragoncat Tattoo Opens in Belmont-DeVilliers by Nicole Willis
Get excited because there’s a new cat on the block—Dragoncat Tattoo. Located in the heart of Pensacola’s BelmontDeVilliers neighborhood, Dragoncat is hard to miss. The quaint building is adorned with gold details and bold, black accents. Inside, flash-covered walls surround the workspaces of the shop’s four co-owners, Shauncey Fury, Alex Fame, Ryan Boxcar and Josh Adams. Fury, Fame, Boxcar and Adams each have extensive backgrounds as tattoo artists, with a combined experience of more than 50 years in the industry. Each of the coowning artists have been tattooing for over a decade, with some having close to 20 years of experience. On the fitting day of Friday, October 13, the ownership team reached a new milestone in their careers with the opening of Dragoncat. We had the chance to catch up with coowner Shauncey Fury to learn more about the new tattoo shop, the artistic and personal bond with his fellow co-owners and how the artists have combined their talents to establish Pensacola’s newest tattoo shop.
Born and raised in Pensacola, Fury got his start learning to tattoo locally in the early 2000s. Although Dragoncat is the first tattoo shop Fury has had ownership in, he’s already well-known for making his mark in the local tattoo scene. “I started learning how to tattoo from Chip Baskin at Tattoo Fever on Garden Street back in 2003, and have been a professional tattoo artist since 2005 when I started working at what would eventually become Three Saints Tattoo, which was owned by Myck McClung. While I didn’t co-own that shop, Myck allowed quite a bit of leniency in operating how I saw fit, so I gained a lot of practice there,” Fury explained. Fascinated with the counterculture of music and tattoos, and after a few years in the area developing his craft, Fury decided to combine his love of music and tattooing and head out on the road with some rock bands. “I worked at a shop called All or Nothing in Smyrna, GA for a bit before moving to Ocala Tattoo, thanks to my friends in [the band] A Day To Remember encouraging me to work there. This lead to more touring before a
