Resonator strings

Resonator strings

Resonator guitars are just guitars. We are in a shift where people are seeing them as the music tools they are - different sounds create different musical choices. No high set ups suitable only for the 12 feet wiggle. You...
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Music Tools

Music Tools

These Mules are music tools. What do they build? Inspiration. What's inspiration? Sure, sometimes a song drops from heaven onto the back of a napkin at a diner, or you wake up with a tune in your head you record on your...
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Charlie Parr at Pine Creek Lodge

Charlie Parr at Pine Creek Lodge

Promenade in green... This show was 1,000 years old. Outside at the muddy base of a un-aging mountain range. Strings of lights cutting the campsite from the natural order around it. The crowd traveling down the mountains to...
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Losing

Losing

I’m standing in the middle of a riot next to Mat #28. There’s over 70 men fighting at the same time. Fighters. They aren’t foamy ex frat boys at a local bar. Their face bones have changed from the pressure of being pushed...
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Chris Turpin’s 12 string Mavis

Chris Turpin’s 12 string Mavis

12 string Mavis with a soundboard back for Chris Turpin @surfburst. The man needed a new tool of destruction with way more strings on it so here we go! The top is one from my secret stash. I love it because it looks like...
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Joey Landreth and Ariel Posen’s guitars

Joey Landreth and Ariel Posen’s guitars

Ariel Posen ‘s baritone short scale (25.5) steel Stratomule and Joey Landreth’s Hipshot Mulecaster being friends at the Mule shop.  You can string up any 25.5” guitar with 18-64’s and tune it to standard B. Don’t freak out...
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Financing Available

Financing Available

Hey All! FINANCING AVAILABLE -  We now work with a financing company to provide monthly installments. Get on the list. Apply with them. They deposit the amount in your bank account. You pay us the full remainder and then pay...
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The Mule Bus

The Mule Bus

We bought a van. ⁣

We know it’s best to say thank you in person. We want to say thank you to you Mule-fiends and all the musicians who use our instruments for a living. ⁣

Mule has always been about people -...
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Connections

Connections

That’s @bennettdeanlewis. We shared a slide on Saturday, it was our second time hanging out. He plays a Mulecaster with Maren Morris and we went to see him enjoy playing music more than probably anyone. The first time I...
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What are the ebony dots for?

What are the ebony dots for?

Find out here : https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044327 -Matt...
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International Orders are open

International Orders are open

We have a limited number of international spots available each month  I stopped shipping internationally during Covid because shipping was a mess - guitars were lost for months, one ended up in a swamp in Spain. Things are...
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Progress pictures

Progress pictures

These guitars don’t just show up on your doorstep. They are made for YOU by people who decided to dedicate their life to doing just that. When work begins you get to follow along through progress pictures and watch it come to...
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Jeffrey Foucault Concert TONIGHT

My good friend Jeffrey Foucault is playing his album "Horse Latitudes" live tonight on his website. It's my favorite album of all albums.  Times are tough for musicians, probably the toughest,  and these live shows online are...
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Wildfire rebuild

Wildfire rebuild

What’s left of Dustin’s three Mules. Dustin and his wife lost their house in the wildfires in California. Dustin is an OG Mule team member, I think he got his first in 2014 and was the first guitar we shipped to a deployed...
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Jae Foundation Modest Mavis

Jae Foundation Modest Mavis

The Jae Foundation is a suicide prevention organization and they are auctioning off a Modest Mavis. You can bid on it here:  https://jaefound2023.ggo.bid/bidding/package/14135174 Read more about their mission and how they...
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Mavis Unplugged

Mavis Unplugged

View link to hear it acoustically: https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2045283
“Can I play it acoustic?” That was the number one question three years ago when after a week of manic building and some encouragement by...
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Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind

Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind

I'm in Iowa parked in the back of a Planet Fitness parking lot. Its 11:30 pm and there's a surprising amount of people working out. It's a parking lot of misfit toys - an odd assortment of vehicles with people sleeping in...
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How to adjust the action

How to adjust the action

I’ve talked about how your truss rod is not an action adjuster. It’s really, really not. 

Here’s how the action is set and adjusted on resonators. It’s best done by a shop because of the special files involved but...
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12 string Mavis!

12 string Mavis!

We made a 12 string Mavis for Chris Turpin of Ida Mae and it is awesome. I also accidentally nicknamed this guitar while making this video… luckily it’s a tough name to beat. We’re going to keep making these babies, I just...
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Turpin’s 12 string hand off

Turpin’s 12 string hand off

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or a saw a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like...
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