Mule

If you buy a Mule it was made by these three people. Me - on the left, my twin brother Phil, and the mighty Smithers. The metal resonator guitar has been done the same way since 1928. There was of course a 60 year hiatus in there. While wood bodied guitars got pushed in different directions the resonator stayed the same.  The same.  That's not our thing.  I wanted to do it differently. Not better - I can't tell you what is better.  But I can make a new sound. That's what these are. These are personally handmade.  You see those three guys up there? Those are the guys who make them. You talk to me, you see pictures of us making things.  We are not hidden behind a name and label inside that says "handmade". I don't get fired up about the factories putting "handmade" on their labels.  It's like if the Pope wore Ugg boots - it looks stupid and hypocritical. I don't have to say its stupid and hypocritical.  They are trying to be something they aren't. Why?  It's not worse. It's just a different thing.  Own it.  My beef is when a company that turns out 500 guitars a day is trying to give the impression that their process is bearded old men with chisels flexing every piece of wood. Don't put a back lit photo of that in your ad. That's Ugg boots on the Pope. It's dishonest and awful.