The guys can do a lot of things, but the workshop boils down to stations. Not an assembly line, but specialized to the point where the work is excellent and efficient. #thenewsoundofsteel ...

Ariel Posen’s StratoMule goes Godzilla on Brighton. Matt...

I think the most exciting part for me as a builder was that moment of "I wonder if I could make that?" leaving the Kelly Joe Phelps show four years ago where he was playing his National.  I think about that almost daily as...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY_7ly0QHV8  ...

Sometimes people use the word 'talented'. I am not that. I think its a thing, but that's not me. I know this, and you would too, because the Wall of Shame I had started while I was at H&D with all the mistakes I would...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJiOijoqCY...

Dan Auerbach of @theblackkeys Mule. My first concert was a Black Keys show in Virginia with my friend Smithers. We both worked at Huss and Dalton guitars at the time, and drove up to Washington DC for the show at the 930...

I was reminiscing a bit about my summer adventure to Sweden and thought I would share some pictures.  One of my best friends, Elias, lives there with his family.  Through the grapevine I ended up selling four instruments in...

What we have here is Mule #19. Almost 20, but not quite. Better than some meaningless number, this is going to a good friend of mine, one of the best in fact, Elias Rådelius. He traveled here from Sweden during highschool...

  

This is a video from last night of Tim playing his Mule resonator guitar on stage with Adele. I'm not sure there's much else I can say about that, it was tremendous but I'll try because I want you all to be part of the story...

...do it everyday. This is a quote by wrestling coach Dan Gable. It's one of those things that's so simple and common sense you wonder why you haven't been doing it all along.  If it's important do it everyday. This is...

A bit of a philosophical tangent now.  What is handmade? I think this a conversation I've always heard phrased in more questions than answers.  I think that's a great thing and I think it proves it's own point- that...

Never measure. Sounds funny, right? Especially when making resonator guitars.  Isn't it all measuring to 1/32 of an inch? Well, it used to be.  Measuring, marking with the sharpest pencil you can find, hoping the ruler...

  You have to do what you  have to do, and getting going with these resonator guitars was no different.  I spent about a year and a half at the first 'Shop", two years in the basement and the last six months at shop...

Let the Wood Be Wood: Fingerboard Wood and Color When I started building these resonators I remembered some advice I got in guitar building school 10 years prior - "Save the good wood for later". Even though every bit of...

A couple months ago I rented a car to get to the Dallas Guitar Show. It was my first time doing so and Hertz seemed just as bad as any. I made the reservation before my trip. When I showed up at the counter there was a line,...

Today a group of grade schoolers came to the shop.  When you ask, "who wants to use the spokeshave?" and five hands go up you have a good group.  I was a bit nervous I would let them down, but they asked insightful...