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Woodstock Guitar Show
I’ll be at Woodstock this weekend. With me will be three steels, a trI cone, single and a cutaway. Matt...
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The New Sound of Steel - BIG 'OL LASER
https://youtu.be/NcyQSDr_r_E
BUT I THOUGHT YOUR GUITARS WERE HANDCRAFTED
#madebyhand
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Charlie Parr Returns
Charlie Parr returns to Mule end of March. We shall record. Hearts and faces will be melted. Matt...
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Wild Ideas and Just Saying Yes
The Yes Man. Mocked throughout the cubicles. "Don't be a yes man." is used in contexts other than the office to try to instill in people a sense of pushing back, going against the grain, standing up for their own...
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Amateur/Professional
If you make things for a living this is for you. If you make things but not for a living, add this to your thoughts if you find yourself daydreaming about telling your boss to shove it.
This is my friendly encouragement to...
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Guitar Festivals
Guitar festivals. I want to go. When I was a wee lad of 18 or so I found the Healdsburg Guitar Festival website and would use that as my research. I found links to websites for Jeff Traugott, Judy Threet, Linda Manzer,...
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What to Expect Buying A Handmade Resonator Guitar
What's it like buying a handmade resonator guitar anyways? If I can't pull it off the wall and play it first, why should I buy it?
I totally admit it's a completely different experience buying a resonator guitar that isn't...
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Guitar Making : Starting Down the Sawdusty Path
Want to make guitars as more than a whenever-you-have-time hobby? Here's my advice, guided by the principle I've found to be true and was put into words by Bob Taylor in his book 'Guitar Lessons":
Quantity is just as...
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Talent is an Excuse
"You are so talented!"
This is probably the number one comment given to makers-of-things, and probably players-of-instruments as well. Talent. I think talent is used like 'miracle' is used. There is talent and there are...
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Heavy Metal Resonator
A heavy picture, literally and metaphorically. Mule #1, a resonato rguitar put together by someone who didn't know how to cut a piece of steel, didn't own a resonator, put together in a closet about 5 feet wide and 10 feet...
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The Eyes Have It
Here's the thing about eyeballs - you only get two.
Phil taking his eye protection seriousl...
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Jeffrey Foucault's Mule Resonator
This is the resonator guitar we made for Jeffrey Foucault. I've been listening to his songs with admiration for last seven years or so, and now he's going to be playing them (writing them?) on this instrument. Pretty...
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Old Steel (and Brass)
Applying the patina to our resonator guitars is a creative process and one that is something we're constantly tweaking, improving, and trying to make more beautiful.
We could chrome plate them, but you wind up with a...
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Charlie Parr Reviews his Mule
Charlie Parr on his Mule:
"So in 1927 National made a proto-type guitar that was a tri-cone fit into a single-cone body, it was some kind of test I think and they never made a production model out of it. My Mule is just...
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