Mule

One of the benefits of building resonators from the "make a living" sense is that the pool of competition is much smaller. The group of builders in the world doing metal bodied resonators is small indeed, I can count them on...

Your strengths got you where you are but they are not what's keeping you from where you want to be. Working alongside them is rewarding work and it comes naturally. That work shows you where you want to go. Give priority for...

This is our shop. ...

Last Saturday we hung out with Billy Gibbons. Yes, from ZZ Top.  They were playing in Saginaw on the other side of the parking garage from where Wynona Judd was also playing that night.  Wynona's guitar player, Charlie, came...

I coach JV football. Last night I put in a third string running back, his first game ever, and he scores on his first play....

I'm not sure if there are any more life events that haven't been marked by a Mule. They've been present at births and played for newborns (Christopher porterfield and James those videos are my faves) engagement presents...

I'm currently on a bicycle tour. It started at Cops and Doughnuts in Clare, MI and will go to Traverse City, through the Tunnel of Trees, over the Mackinac Bridge, across the UP, through Wisconsin, and across a ferry back to...

"Hockey tape is the best tape," advice given by mister Parr to a group of good ol' boys who had gathered around his van after a show in Kentucky. So kicked off lots of laughs and stories during his visit here. Like how when T...

Customer build pictures from today. -Matt...

Sometimes when it comes to “stuff” it’s about the stuff. Materials, dimensions. This thing we do here at Mule, and want you to be a part of, is more about people and playing. This is me, Matt:I own Mule. I make these along...

Five. Years. Five years of Mule actually started 13 years ago when I started trying to put pieces of wood together to make guitars that weren't being made. That took me to a guitar making school run by ex hippies in Phoenix,...

The purpose of making an instrument is to be inspirational and transparent and a component of that is building what people expect.  A guitar should guide players to new songs while also getting out of the way.   A three...

If you want to get paid $20 an hour, do work worth that when getting $10.  -Matt...

This past week a friend and I traveled to the barren tundra of Ontario to visit our friend and hand plane-maker extraordinaire Konrad Sauer. Oh, and JL stopped by to pick up his Mulecaster. https://youtu.be/eD7FaZQXCl8...

Figured Woods, exotic wood, sapwood all have their place. But what do you get when combine an awesome North American hardwood + technology + an expert Canadian? This. This is perfectly quarter sawn torrefied hard maple. The...

Not every day you get to build a guitar for Aquaman. ...

I was invited to be part of the Boutique Guitar Showcase area NAMM. I’m here.l and happy. This will be intense. “The early settlers took up land they didn’t need and couldn’t use; they tool up worthless land just to own it....