https://youtu.be/EIKd3GrWCOc I first heard Nat Myers when Kris Hammond - affectionately known around the shop as the Mule Queen - sent me an instagram video of his. He was in his room, long hair bunched up underneath a...

NAT F****** Y’ALL 
Videos incoming. Making these instruments have connected me with more wonderful humans on the earth than I could have imagined. I hope you’ve made some friends through them too. -Matt...

Billy Gibbons, BFG, once gave me a whole grocery bag of health food and a can of Skyline Chili he got in Ohio. He also told me a story that started with a pamphlet on numerology he got at a sketchy convenience store in...

It’s always an adventure getting to the NAMM show but we’re here, the crate is here, and we are ready to set up. 

Come say hi. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/xqsdbKPl2i0?si=b9UPzn81-y4HhkBO...

Michael Foust is the winner of the raffle! Y’all raised over $30,000 for Gateway to Recovery. Thanks to everyone who participated. 

https://youtu.be/glDepmZAa3A?si=tIeUH8pomwvmqaUm matt...

These ornaments were painted by my Auntie Chris and have been shipping with guitars completed this season. “A.C” for short. The straight shooter Aunt who tells it like it is. But she has that thing that most “tell it like...

Buy your tickets to win this ridiculously awesome guitar. Ends December 23. Drawing will be on Christmas Eve.  https://www.muleresophonic.com/products/34235-muletide-christmas-raffle-guitar Hear it...

GUITAR RAFFLE: It’s never too early to talk about Christmas. The MuleTide Christmas raffle guitar is underway with this beautiful piece of curly Mango from Hawaii. This year the money will go to Saginaw Gateway to Recovery,...

Whats this? What. Is. THIS??? This, my spooky friends, is a resonator painted in the “blackest black in the known universe” Black 4.0 by Culture Hustle. 

May your bags be full of full size and none of that...

I was talking with a customer the other day about what tuning and strings he wanted his steel tricone sent out with.   He was planning and keeping it in Eb open D and didn't know what gauge he should use.  Normal stuff.  The...

The Mavis is getting comfortable in front of Harley Davidson’s cameras with Jason Momoa and Bones Owens using theirs for their shoots for Harley apparel. 

Matt ...

I was asked in a survey if I thought “handmade guitars are better than mass produced ones”. I said no - hard working people make both. The conversation is preoccupied with the ‘thing’ when it’s really trying to describe...

A new tool for Queens of the Stone Age. -Matt ...

I’ll be driving to Chicago to show these fine guitars at Fretboard Summit. I’ll be in the west building. Come say hi!



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The question “is handmade stuff better than factory made stuff?” is an overly simplified question. What does “handmade” or “better” mean? Leaving it at questions like that keeps the questions about “stuff” when buying from...

I got this email from Teresa Dopyera, the grand daughter of one of the inventors of the resonator guitar, three years ago on Christmas Eve. I saw the last name on the contact form and I honestly gasped. The timing was...

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...