Travis Koller
Tattoo artist and custom coil tattoo machine builder. Working under @teavi_tattoos for tattoos and Koller Irons for machines. TMO 2024 competitor.
Travis is a working tattoo artist with a neo-traditional, new-school edge — vivid color, bold linework, illustrative characters. The kind of artist who knows exactly what a machine needs to do because he runs one every day.
The machine-building came from the tattooing. Tuning his own irons to his exact hand turned into a workshop hand-winding coils and finishing custom frames for artists who refuse to settle for mass production. In 2024 he competed at the Tattoo Machine Olympics alongside the best builders in the trade.
Every Koller Iron is cut, wound, finished, and tuned by hand. No two are identical. All of them are built to outlive you.
What does Travis do?
Travis’s tattoo work is published as Teavi (Instagram @teavi_tattoos). Neo-traditional and new-school — vivid color, bold linework, illustrative characters with attitude.
Custom coil tattoo machines, hand-built one at a time. Liners, shaders, color packers, and combo workhorses tuned to each artist’s hand. Hand-wound coils, machined frames, lifetime support and retuning. Start a build →
Where can I get tattooed by Travis?
Travis is currently tattooing out of Iron Quill Social Club in Murrysville, PA — about 25 minutes east of Pittsburgh. For bookings and availability, reach out via @teavi_tattoos.
Murrysville, PA 15668
Iron Quill Social Club is the shop where Travis works — not a Koller Irons property. Custom machine orders go through the build wizard.
Tattoo Machine Olympics 2024
TMO is the field’s benchmark builder competition — machines are judged blind on tuning, geometry, finish, and performance under real tattooing load. Travis competed in 2024 alongside builders from across the trade. The work that went into competing — coil-wind tolerances, frame geometry iteration, spring tuning under judging conditions — feeds directly into every Koller Iron that ships.