Transcend Blues License Plate Cigar Box Guitar Jam + My Sculpture Wonderland

I took my Transcend license plate guitar with me to the close of my art exhibition "Potential Energy" and got to play in the gallery surrounded by my ceramic sculptures at the Appalachian Center for Craft. I only had room to bring my 25 year old tape player that I hacked into a guitar amp, so the sound is very lo-fi & gritty. It was a blast playing in that setting! The gitty has an oak neck & fingerboard that I fretted. It has very low action - really I should raise it a bit for slide or just use it for chords. There's a Snake Oil humbucker & a disc piezo under the plate with dual volume controls. I've got electric strings on it with G D G B tuning here. Thanks for listening! If you'd like to see a tour of my sculptures in the gallery I have another video showing that here: https://youtu.be/F15f86Fstyo

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Comment by Greg Thompson on July 19, 2016 at 10:56am
Hey Janis,
I just saw this post.
Cool video and I really like the exhibit!
Your hack of the tape deck sounds great.
At first, I thought you would have the ceramic guitar...
Good stuff!
Comment by Blues Frog on July 10, 2016 at 5:47am

Nice sounding git. Very raw, gritty sounding amp. 

Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on July 10, 2016 at 4:06am

A belated thank you to Rooster! :)

Comment by Rooster on July 5, 2016 at 2:39pm

Great playing Janis.......and I love the sound of the amp ;-)

Comment by Derek Rose on July 3, 2016 at 3:26am

You are welcome! Nice weekend so far, thanks. Have a great holiday.

Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on July 3, 2016 at 3:08am

Thank you Derek! Hope you're having a great weekend. :)

Comment by Derek Rose on July 2, 2016 at 4:02pm

Very cool, setting, guitar, playing, tone...

Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on July 2, 2016 at 3:35am

Thank ya Wolfy! ;) Hope you're having a great weekend. 

Comment by Clock The Wolf on July 1, 2016 at 8:57am

Neat-O Coooooooooooool………!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Janis Wilson Hughes on July 1, 2016 at 8:04am

Hey Kat, thank you so much! :D

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