The guitar strings our guitars ship with are these: Daddario resonator flat tops But we buy 15/s as singles and replace that for the top end. Use bigger strings and tune down. Let's things vibrate.  Use flat tops on all your...

These fine gentlemen will be stopping by Mule HQ this year to drink coffee, eat decent-enough food, and play us some of their tunes. We will even record it for ya. What’s fun for me is that there isn’t a whole lot in common...

Mistaking affinity as knowledge. Rationalizing instead of testing. Reacting instead of contemplating. Thinking instead of trying. Comfort is not confirmation. Inclination is not experience. Habit is not practice. Inaction...

If you want a clean house first clean each room.  I've had a few conversations recently that made me realize that we are too far sighted and, perhaps, act a bit entitled. We know what we want so that's what we look for.  The...

I take these pictures for the customers that buy them, but I end up staring at them longer than they do I bet......

Will is our new employee, and he's already got the best hair in the shop. "I'm from a mile-long beach town on the Delaware Bay, where you had to drive a half hour to get milk or bread. I started working at Musikraft four and...

In the home stretch of the carving for the certificate of authenticity done by Jack Baumgartner. Check out the detail. ...

Tricone in a single cone body. It’s true, see them three little circles? That’s a tricone soundwell. If I posted this on Facebook I would still get “that’s not a tricone” , but you guys know better. I’m a big fan of doing...

I just completed a shell pink-steel body-celluloid pickguard -Mule pickupped Mulecaster built for sonic assault for Khal Drogo/Aquaman/Declan Harp/Jason Momoa. The story gets better but that’s for another time. -Matt...

"Success is the balance between two ideas," a piece of advice given to me by a guitar making mentor. Do I try a new tool or process hoping it will work, or use that time to produce work I have to do? In professional guitar...

Finish what you start. ...

A joy of this work is seeing he look in a customer’s face when they open the case. A real treat though is seeing the look on his son’s face. ...

The most intense joy of making instruments-seeing someone use what you’ve made to do something you could never do yourself. Perhaps play something that would not have been had it not been for the combination of two people’s...