Mule Resophonic Guitars

  Yes! I totally made up that phrase. Thesaurus in hand.  Aren't ALL words made up? It took forever, go easy on me. The point is this: if you're trying to solve a problem - not enough orders, not enough time, etc - there...

Something I love about building these resonators and Mulecasters is the coming up with new ideas.  Four years ago I didn't know how to cut metal.  Now we are finishing up our 225th guitar.  225! I never could have imagined...

I coach JV football and the season is over. At the high school I coach at our freshmen generally come in having never even watched a football game.  There's no grade school football program and the kids come from all over and...

Here's part 5 in a series meant to help other maker-owners navigate minimal stress improvement in different areas of making things for a living.  Improving your work day conserves energy for living life outside of what you do...

Part four in a series directed at helping other maker-owners balance their worklife- minimal stress progression in all the areas of what it takes to make things for a living. Production "What you do for a living is not 'be...

This is Part three in a series of posts geared towards owner-makers that are looking for a system for ensuring balanced progress in all the aspects of making a living while making stuff.  Scroll back to part 1 and 2 if you...

This is Part 2 of a series of posts aimed at helping other maker-owners achieve balanced improvement in all the aspects of owning a business and making what they sell. "If its important do it everyday." - Wrestling Coach Dan...

Owner/makers have a lot of different things to improve on. Problem is we sprint from seemingly necessary shiny thing to shiny thing, meanwhile digging holes that we sprint back to later to fill in. And since many of us are...

I'm going to start a series of posts of maintaining a work life balance directed at fellow maker/owners.  A lot of been written about work/life balance which is basically 'work less and do not work things more'.  There's some...

Answer the big questions first.  The main problem I encountered as a beginning luthier, and the mistake I see being made over and over again by beginning luthiers, is they forget to answer the big questions first. The...

Every idea has another side of the coin.   Do you know any 'coin flippers'? "Let's take the dog for a walk. " "We can't , my mom might call." "Let's try this new product, it might reach more people than we have now." "But it...