Why a Mule Tomthumbucker for a pickup? Why not a piezo/magic ribbon/unicorn horn? A magnetic pickup will get you the most volume before feedback, important when the context is a cavernous steel chamber of awesome. It’s also...

Mule sighting- Check out the voice on this fella. Henry GRace. Mule in duet with him. Gav eme goosebumps. http://henrygracemusic.com https://youtu.be/XhugwjGtQvs...

Aaaaaand this video is awesome. https://youtu.be/M8jYwyKAXQM...

Ain’t she Purdy? I delivered it to him right before Christmas at Konrad Sauer’s place over in Kitchener, ON. Lots of friends and a good story- the best part of this work. The bodies on these are steel too. The hollow steel...

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Ariel Posen on his steel baritone Stratomule... we affectionately call him “Mister Stanky Leg “ at the shop due to his sheer amount of sass. Matt...

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A customer was somewhat justifiably upset that I had drilled the fret dots wrong and just filled them with ebony. Let me calm your fears reso enthusiasts!Underneath those ebony plugs are screws that go into the neck wedge...

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I did an interview with Fretboard Journal last year.   Lots of great guitars have graced their pages but rarely resonator guitars.  Check out the interview...

Customers get some progress pictures as there resonator guitar is being made. Here are some for Mr. Musselwhite (yes there is a relation). -Matt...

If you are guitar maker, resonator guitar enthusiast, or are just looking for a good book- Guitar Lesson by Bob Taylor and  The Way of the Seal by Mark Divine are two of the most helpful I've read this year. The hard part of...

I was listening to the radio a while back and they had a scientist on to talk. She studied ants. First I was stunned that there was such a thing, second that she most likely was not the only ant researcher. She spent all her...

A bit of a tangent but it still applies. We tend to think of alternatives in aggregate. "If I didn't work this job I could start that business, go back to school and still have more free time." We take the best parts of all...

I never wanted to be a business person.  It still makes me feel awkward just to write it.  I just wanted to make things and support myself doing it.  I had attached (have attached) a lot of misconceptions about what it means...

Making stuff to make stuff. A brass fiddle edged tricone, complete with fingerboard ramp, modeled after Dan Auerbach's 1935 Dobro, that I had the privilege to possess temporarily. SWEET GOODNESS I'M PUMPED....

Me talking to Mark and Anna from Room 608 in NewYork City. In what they call a "conference room". They have 7 Emmy awards and 18 Emmy nominations between them and they are making an episode for a maker series for PBS. It will...

I use the B grade ebony that the large manufacturers don't use because it isn't jet black. I can see why. I mean, look how boring that is. Please, Guitar Builders of the World, continue using the great looking jet black...