Mule Resophonic Guitars

I wish I could tell 16 year old me, jamming to I Am Trying to Break Your Heart in his parents’ minivan that 25 years later he’d be in the fantastic city of New Orleans watching Nels Cline play it on a guitar he made right...

Hey New Orleans! I’m headed your way. I’ll have resonators you can check out at the craft tent this weekend at JazzFest if you’re into that sort of party. Let’s be friends. Also I’m pulling a Homer Simpson and will not leave...

Same highs you climb, same lows you go. Picture this:
You’ve been told that the cold you were fighting was sarcoma and you would die in a month.
You’re struggling to breathe.
You’ve had a round of chemotherapy....

Customer pick up days are the best days. When they receive their last progress pictures I thank them for “being part of the story”. The pictures show them their chapter and keep the conversation going. The quality of your...

When @trekbikes asked me to speak at their Innovation Summit - kind of a TEDtalk/fun product development day- I was as excited as I was terrified. I’ve learned this feeling is the cue to commit. So I said yes having no idea...

What's Mule about and where did we come from? Check our Six String Tales documentary for the answers. https://youtu.be/rO8ar0Jf-ic?si=2qWIRpRucrQVsBGI -Matt...

Why the 'Pegamule'? My friend Jack came up with the idea for the inside label for our guitars. A very pleasant mule and maple leaves turned into an anti-Apple Pegasus-mule in space standing on top of the earth. So this...

I showed up to the steel Quonset hut reflecting the 118 degree air back hotter yet. 15 yards past the spray booth were piled up junk cars. Surrounding the yard were rusty barbed wire fences too high to climb.  I was 19...

BUILD-A-MAVIS Instead of releasing random Modest Mavis on Mondays and having a list for the standard Mavis we are handing you the reigns. Want a Modest Mavis cutaway with a tort guard? Or carved back… flame top… you get the...

Hey Mom we’re in Fretboard Journal!
Jason Verlinde made this publication that makes the space for human stories. Guitars are the mechanism but people are the point. What an amazing thing to be a part of. Noah...

This story is unbelievable enough to be true.

I started music when I was six. The violin. I played in a college orchestra in grade school but after a disastrous chair audition I quit.

I picked up the guitar...

This is my new buddy, Ivan. Ivan, my friend Jack @baumwerkj and myself are cooking up something special for the NAMM show. Historically I’ll have some ridiculous idea, usually while on long solo car drives, and once I have...

Jack Baumgartner and I met each other on social media about 10 years ago. The man’s depth as a human and an artist has inspired me to push and pull on what I do and why. Our phone conversations have followed the same format...

The short of it: we are making mono-cones again in addition to the tricones. New sounds mean new songs and unwritten songs are why we do this work. You can get on the list...

Derek B. is the winner! Video of the drawing here: https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2047263 Thanks to all for being part of this special thing - gathering around to take care of each other.  matt ...

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Big or little, merry Christmas Mule fam! Thanks so much for your friendship this year. Boy, we’ve got a crew. Your generosity, your, patience, your trust- thanks for...

For all the details and video go here: https://www.muleresophonic.com/products/33375-parr-mule-raffle -Matt...

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world...

This is George. He retired today. If you got your Mule between 2012-2018 George was most likely the last one here in Saginaw to have a hand in getting you your new music tool. I would haul the boxes downstairs (or upstairs...

We got big news coming end of November and we needed a big way to tell it. I cold called Jacob @rockinpmules, a life-long mule trainer in southern Michigan, and he along with his mules Henry and Shelby stepped up to...