The Ballad of the Mule T-Bridge

The Ballad of the Mule T-Bridge

Watch the epic video of the process making here: https://youtu.be/HeXH_IMIuzc The new Mule T-bridge is here! The t-bridge is the direct connection between the strings and the cones in a resonator guitar. Every T bridge since...
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Jiujitsu World Championships

In Las Vegas competing at the jiujitsu World Championships for the second time. It’s equally exciting as it is terrifying - which usually means I’m doing the right thing. Back next week.
-Matt...
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Don’t be yourself.

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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We ship internationally

We ship internationally

We ship internationally. There was a couple year stretch where we didn’t. Things were weird in the world in many ways and internationally shipped guitars ended up lost for months or apparently at the bottom of a swamp in...
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Makin' Mules: Monica Valli

Check out the first of two videos documenting the build of a tritone for Monica Valli: https://youtu.be/ccaPjjC6na0 Matt...
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Winter is Here
Guitar World Article

Guitar World Article

Some kind words in Guitar World Magazine, an interview with the incomparable Chris Turpin.

Guitar World Article Video of me deliver The River to Chris.

Delivering The River -Matt...
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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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