Mule Resophonic Guitars

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...

At the NAMM show I stumbled across a guitar company's sign. In bold letters it said "THE AUTHORITY ON ACOUSTIC SOUND". It was even all capitalized.  It continued: "The pursuit of acoustic perfection is the driving force...

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....

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...