I have never clicked so fast when I see Dave Grohl and Mary Spender in one title😍🔥

Mary: I want to someday build my own guitar. Also Mary: I want to someday own a Flying V guitar. Obvious solution: Mary should build herself a Flying V guitar.

I never clicked on a video so quick, I'm a huge Foo Fighters fan.

You're right, Mary. I do know that the names of those songs are written there every time I pick up the guitar. Those were some of my happiest years ever. Also, it was a pleasure to work on the Art Caster with a couple of good friends: Juan Manuel Latapí, the artist that painted it and Daniel Zpinosa, the luthier who worked out the electronics and the pickups configurations.

Hello from California. Love your videos! My story is that about 25 years ago I was deciding on my first ever guitars to purchase. I ended up picking one black guitar (an epiphone acoustic) and one white (an epiphone les Paul custom). The reason I chose those was that just a few weeks earlier, I had found a stray cat abandoned in the snow, that I named Hobbes. He was a Norwegian Forest cat that had black and white fur in a tuxedo pattern. I loved him so much, and he was always super affectionate (I think from being saved). Even though I’ve since purchased much higher end guitars that I play more often, I will never sell those first two, as they always remind me of Hobbes. Every time I pull them out of the case to play again, I start choking up remembering Hobbes.

The cat's full name is Isabella Garcia-Shapiro - from the cartoon "Phineas and Ferb". We just call her "Izzy". :)

_"FRESH POTS!!"_

Only one electric for me - I built it some 35+ years ago in 7th grade. Started with a blank of African mahogany. Played in a bunch of local bands, even forgot it on the roof of my car once and saw it tumble in the mirror. It’s got plenty of flaws but somehow the wood I shaped way back then still just fits right. Wouldn’t trade her for anything at any price.

Dave Grohl signature 335 has been on my bucket list since they came out ! 😎🎸👍 Love this series Mary bye the way !

These stories made me feel so many emotions! Your voice is always so soothing as well. Love this series idea, can’t wait for the next one!!!

This is a great series Mary!! I love the back stories that grow with guitars after they are born! Whenever I acquire a new guitar I always try to fill in the back story. Knowing the history of the guitar is way better then simply 'owning' the guitar. What a wonderful idea for a series. Thank you so much for all of your hard work and effort you put into your videos. The effort is greatly appreciated! Be well.

Couple things: 1. Intro is boss, 2. This is awesome.

I love this new series! I hope you keep making them. I've been a fan for a couple months after accidentally stumbling upon your channel, and I've very much enjoyed your content since! But this Guitar Stories series is what pushed me to become a patron, and now I've submitted my own guitar story. It'll never top the Grohl guitar story, but I think it's pretty cool.. Hopefully you will too! Love this, Mary!

Hi Mary, wonderful series you have started, I love it and the stories. Keep up the great work. I would love to hear some of your guitar stories as well.

You're crushing your editing!! It's always so very nice to watch your videos! The Fuzzoes (kittehs- Whinnie, Pepper, and Huey) are fascinated by your voice. Especially when you sing!! Carry on! Do well, be good, stay safe, and healthy!

That was so great to listen to! Eeee! I’m loving this series Mary !!🙌🙌

Great show Mary....Before Dave Grohl's 335, It was the Trini Lopez Signature 335 Gibson...I could talk for ever about some of my guitars with you so I'll try to send photos and one story at a time. Thanks Richard

Amazing video!!! Keep up the great work Mary.

I have spent the last week watching all your videos and loved them all. I love the stories behind peoples guitars on this video. I own a Squier Telecaster with a lot of fender parts and other parts that I have upgraded, I play it just about every day and love it I have a Fender Mustang 1 V2 but also love the Orange amps. Keep up the great vlogs! I am from Western Massachusetts USA.

GAh! Love the intro jingle. You have such a great voice! I love Mary Spender

that's some awesome stories for some amazing guitars!!! loving this series Mary

The Dave Grohl model Gibson is a very slightly modified version of the Gibson Trini Lopez Standard that was available in the 1960s. The main changes are the color from Cherry to Pelham Blue, the elimination of the trapeze tailpiece on the Trini, and the elimination of the white taping border on the diamond holes. After the production of the Dave Grohl model, Gibson did a limited re-issue of the Trini Lopez Standard. I have a 1967 build Trini Lopez Standard that I purchased new at that time. It is original and in excellent condition, and is a joy to play. Look up the Trini Lopez Standard -- ever now and then one becomes available on the market.

This format is so relaxing I love it. Also she sounds like a radio host

Must say i really love your channel in its variety and your evolution as musician and podcaster.

Love your channel, first introduced to you by Leo in the Sultans of Swing video you two did. hope you do more with him as I enjoy that video. Be well and safe and I look forward to your next video,

LOVE this series Appreciate the hard work 💓

I really like this idea. Please do more of these videos Mary.

Thanks Mary, great video, liked the guitar stories and content.

New to this series and I am hooked! Guitars are so much more to players than just a combination of wood and metal. They have their own life and vibe that only a player can appreciate.

I love this stories! This is my first video that a see, great serie Mary :D

I loved the intro! I'm quite new to your channel and I just have seen a couple of videos, the intro was totally unexpected 😅 it is so cool tho

I LOVE your videos and the graphics!

Really nice video and some really nice guitars... I've just emailed you my story, while the guitar itself won't be considered any special by most people, the story behind it is what makes it special to me.

Loving the videos, the instruction, advice and conversation! As a guitarist for nearly 45 years, I've acquired quite a few guitars (understatement #1), and a couple of pedals (understatement #2). I'd love to send pix with a description of the guitar(s)...if that's cool with you. PLEASE send me a link or thread I can add this stuff to so I can share with you & the rest of your viewers! All the BEST!- Be SAFE!

I think you should do a Mary Spender Cat stories in a second channel 😂

pink and black painted Harmony guitar! He said he would teach me chords if I helped him sand off the paint; sounds like a fair trade to me. #2: My mom died when I was 14 and left me, in a bank account, $325. After the guitar sanding, I was eager to have my own guitar. My dad, being a professional musician mentioned that Gibson was a top notch instrument. Off to Music City Hollywood along with my $325. I fell in love with the Gibson ES 175 sunburst and after he made a deal to throw in the case, I went home with a 1960 brand new Gibson! #3: My dad died when I was 48. In the trunk of his car was a box of hard wood he used to make furniture and other things. The meaning of that, was that he had sold all of his wood-working tools and could not let go of that box. Down the road from where I was living at the time was the Taylor Guitar factory. My friend went to school with Bob Taylor and told me to give him a call with the idea I had. I took that box of hard wood with me and met with Bob Taylor. After sharing the dad story, I asked if he could use any of my dad's hard wood in any part of my, soon to be, new guitar. The head-stock piece and the truss-rod cover are now part of my Dad.

Most of my guitars are either parts built or modified by me... I think the minimum is my Ibanez Jet King I, I put better tuners on it, and replaced all the controls (except the coil split switches) to make it more balanced for a guitar that can have both humbucker and single coils (300k volume pot, and this custom tone that allows for the normal capacitor for high cut, or pull up the knob to an inductor to cut the mids (yes, it can sound like a wah wah if I roll it on and off fast enough.) I did it this way because I wasn’t sure if the pickups were the issue (just sounded kind of “eh” in both modes) or the electronics... I was right and saved myself from having to buy new pickups.

Honestly, and I don't know why, but I think this is one of the best videos of yours that I have watched. Well done!

Sweet guitar. So I've only been playing guitar for 3 years or so. It's a beautiful feeling knowing I keep rhythm and be at 85 percent vocally. When I just jam out playing lead I'm starting to play with Beethoven pieces. Drive and ambition keep me going. Never let the world take music from you.

That theme song is absolutely, soul-crushingly adorable lmao

awesome Mary... you are a growing legend... wishing you the best of everything... Kent, Texasroper

This is very soothing❤ guitar, expert musician, soothing voice, etc!

Hello Mary, I am from Melbourne , Australia. Great stories!

Wow what a great topic/series why are you the only content creator doing this topic.🤘

One last thing... building a guitar- even from a kit takes a lot of work and special tools. It also takes a lot of time. IMHO it's absolutely worth it! If you have the patience to go through all of the steps, you can customize it exactly to fit what you're about from the hand carve on the lower bowt, to the arm carve up top. Maybe that's another whole set of videos for you to get into. I'm doing my 8th build with the other guitarist in my band right now. I have sold off all but 2, for about what I put into them!!

I have two guitars that go with me everywhere I go. One is a Black Oscar Schmidt OE40 Hollow Body and the other is a Johnson Swamp Stomper Resonator. Since I play mostly acoustic blues these work very well for me. I couldn't figure out how to place pictures of them though. They have remarkable sound even though I spent about 200 USD for each.

Hey Mary, if you want to build your own guitar I think you and Ben from Crimson Guitar would get on like a house on fire! All traditional hand tools. Such a story to be made!

Hey this is Jintae! Thanks for sharing my story ;) I bought new Tele right after then and have been using it until now :D

Hi Mary - I just want to say that I love your show!🙂and your stile..and then theres your smiles!🙃you inspire me more than you know!⭐️🎇🌻... I think it's times like these we learn to live and love again!🦋 Thank you for being you! Bw/Lw .🐺🦆🐦🐯...🇺🇸🇬🇧

Watching this while waiting for the paint to dry on my Explorer kit.

Plot twist: *the cat is fletcher and his typing the story*

Being a retired machinist and metal fabricator I have two guitar stories to share. Back in the early 1980's I was just learning to play guitar and working the overnight shift in a machine shop had the good fortune to be friends with two advanced guitar players, one of who hung out with a garage band in Roseland, Illinois who later became STYKS. S older fellow who was a sheet metal fabricator was learning guitar too. So we would take our lunch breaks in an isolated area of our shop and learn more from these seasoned players. Being inventive, we decided to make an acoustic guitar from sheet aluminum. I traced out a pattern from my C. F. Martin copy Fannin guitar and during breaks and lunch we worked on the body. I then had the woodshop fellows provide me with some maple flooring to carve out a neck and bridge. I made the frets out of strips of stainless steel and pressed them into the slots in the fretboard that I carefully layed out using my Tannin for dimensions. I then added 6-32 flat head Allen screws as neck position markers and purchased tuners from the local guitar store. The neck was bolted on to the body block welded into the body. After installing strings the "Bucket Guitar" as I christened it actually played pretty good. I named it bucket guitar because when you set it down, it sounded like a bucket! When the sheet metal fellow retired we have him the aluminum guitar to take with him. Since it had no truss rod, the neck did warp a bit with a high action. The second guitar was similar, but based on an electric 335 style body we made using a broken solid body guitar neck my sister-in-law got from a local band who broke it on stage. The body was a hollow body with aluminum construction too, welding round pins I machined to support the bridge and tremolo tailpiece. I have several photos of that one, but I sold it years ago.

Awesome.. luved this.. there should be more people doing guitar stories..

Thanks for doing this. Always enjoy your videos.

love this series mary... and yes you definitely should buy a flying vehicle I guess imagine it, and though you place sitting down a lot, I still think it would be hot having that V hanging off your shoulders and you rocking out some kind of Lenny Kravitz like jam! 😎🎸🎹🤘🐦

Another South Korean fan here~~~~! You are amazing Mary!

03:55. I worked at Sydney Airport when U2 toured. One guy got Bono's autograph which was signed in his real name & another got Edge's which was in his real name. I am NOT sure if Edge would have 2 signatures, one for Edge and one for his own name (probably does). As we were helping the entourage find their plane, maybe my former workmates got a more personal autograph?

linda historia, me inspira...tu alegría y voz tranquilizante me transmiten paz, que tanto necesito en este momento. Gracias!!!

People all over love your vids because they are so good and so fun to watch.

Helloooo, I've waited here for you - Mary Spenderrrr

Finch has made some affordable instruments back in time, I still have a Destroyer bass guitar, maybe the last one they made. Overall it is a good instrument, but its finishing cannot be considered that good. There are some problems with sanding and painting.

Epic intro. I learned a little while ago that the wood is supposed to be pronounced 'bass'-wood like the fish bass.

This video made me appreciate my own two and a half guitars even more. Not much of a story to them, but I imagine I'll send them as well anyway.

Can you do an extended review of Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork®+ Polyphonic Pitch Shifter/Harmony Pedal

“You know that it’s theeere...” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

My Uncle Ross, & my father played together for 50+ years. Dad tried to teach me to play guitar, but the best I could do is Bass guitar. Looked cool! Michael McClary

Hi Mary. A friend tells me that the perfect formula for calculating the amount of guitars required is x + 1. Thank you for your excellent content.

I could have snagged a Gibson Alex Lifeson ES prototype at the Twelfth Fret here... Alex and Geddy from Rush are our local guys, and have been seen out having a pint.

Even doing a Warmoth build would be awesome to see from you!

On this episode of Mary Spender's guitar dreams. 😍

You should do a Collab building your own Guitar with Crimson Guitars (They can teach you) in the UK. Would be great to watch!

Such a cool idea for a series!

The outro music is spectacular.

I just come here and click like before watching the great videos because they are so consistently awesome that this seems easier. haha

Love the editing

this vid intro already deserves my thumbs up

such a cool idea... love these stories

I loved the content of this video! 💕

Mary, you’ve never been more adorable. I’m selling my Apple stock and putting all my money into Finch guitars. They certain to go up like crazy after this. 🤘🤘🤘

Opening up to the public, check out description below...? Where?

I love this series!

The 1st set was gorgeous!

Nice show. Some poignant stories. Others uplifting. Good bit of c-19 programing : ) Off topic a bit, I think we need to ask subscribers about favorite Mary test sessions? You have done a number of street and music store shopping and test plays. Which are our favorites? Mine is the Washburn test play : )

I think Mary Spender would be a great name for a cat. Maybe it's because your smile always reminds me of the cat who ate the canary.

love this series cheers beautiful :)

Seriously could just listen to you read the dictionary. You have such a soothing voice.

I'v owned mostly acoustics and 1 electric bass, I have given most of mine away but kept this little Marlin 11-1. I'm getting a couple of the braces re glued and gonna monkey around with it for awhile. and we can see you here in Canader.

So this is for the parts casters. That surf green Strat is missing one thing to just give that “POP!”.. MINT GREEN PICKGUARD!!!! Trust me. I have a surf green mustang and I never thought I’d have settled on that color combo but mist mint green guards aren’t truly mint green they just mimic the black layer under the first white layer. Leo never would have never let those leave the factory if he was still in charge when the lovely and famous mistake happened. 😊 it’s worth the 20 bucks to try imo

That was dope. I like the new series.

You were nerding out! Its awesome 🤣

YES!!...The Edge just has to Breathe on the guitar and it's value is Ten Times increased !!!!!

Mary have you ever tried or played a Gretsch? I think a duo jet would suit you sooo much, you are both beautiful and have a great sound.

I'd love to see you do a colab with Ben Crowe at Crimson Guitars. He did say that his guitar building school is starting to reopen.

Great stories. Love it.

When the fuck are you making a podcast, I would listen to it so hard

😃😃 oh it's a great video About guitaarrss 😃 the best gift for my birthday😃

Im 66years of age 17:53 2020 and for the first time in my life at last i own two guitars

Awesome ! I also want to buy them all xD

I loved it how you said "RRRoberto" hahaha trying to be respectful towards the person by pronouncing his name properly. What a supergirl you are, Mary!

That is NOT a prototype, Gibson stamps them with a “prototype” stamp so this is just the first guitar made for the market and then auctioned at Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. There are prototypes that are still in his possession.