They’re anything guitars. They aren’t “set up for slide” because “slide set up” isn’t really a thing. Practice is, and practicing with a slide that fits and isn’t too heavy will make practicing way more enjoyable. Like the...

The question “is handmade stuff better than factory made stuff?” is an overly simplified question. What does “handmade” or “better” mean? Leaving it at questions like that keeps the questions about “stuff” when buying from...

https://youtu.be/w0a1wLKGats?si=B-_s8DCPBw7AWBW_ This Builder's Choice Mavis with a top from our Secret Stash will be available Monday December 4th....

I was asked in a survey if I thought “handmade guitars are better than mass produced ones”. I said no - hard working people make both. The conversation is preoccupied with the ‘thing’ when it’s really trying to describe...

I’ll be closing the wait list March 1st. It will reopen with very limited quantities on the first Saturday of every month. Last time we did this it was difficult to get on the list so how’s the time to ensure a...

I got this email from Teresa Dopyera, the grand daughter of one of the inventors of the resonator guitar, three years ago on Christmas Eve. I saw the last name on the contact form and I honestly gasped. The timing was...

Customer pick up days are the best days. When they receive their last progress pictures I thank them for “being part of the story”. The pictures show them their chapter and keep the conversation going. The quality of your...

on the road! https://youtu.be/1gxvr2m-0nQ?si=2LqBKWV7qqvkXJps...

1000 connections, 1000 hands locked in grateful cooperative labor.  We've now made 1000 resonators, 400 Mavis, and 400 mulecasters. How many songs is that? How many stories and connections is that?   In 2009 I had almost...

Why the 'Pegamule'? My friend Jack came up with the idea for the inside label for our guitars. A very pleasant mule and maple leaves turned into an anti-Apple Pegasus-mule in space standing on top of the earth. So this...

Hey New Orleans! I’m headed your way. I’ll have resonators you can check out at the craft tent this weekend at JazzFest if you’re into that sort of party. Let’s be friends. Also I’m pulling a Homer Simpson and will not leave...

Video update here: https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2048753
Lots of videos to come!...

Same highs you climb, same lows you go. Picture this:
You’ve been told that the cold you were fighting was sarcoma and you would die in a month.
You’re struggling to breathe.
You’ve had a round of chemotherapy....

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world...

We want to start feeling connected with your instrument as soon as it begins, so we send you progress pictures every major step of the way. 



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We make ‘em. 

Tricone or Mavis. like this beauty for Shawn Verreault. 

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Billy Gibbons, BFG, once gave me a whole grocery bag of health food and a can of Skyline Chili he got in Ohio. He also told me a story that started with a pamphlet on numerology he got at a sketchy convenience store in...

This story is unbelievable enough to be true.

I started music when I was six. The violin. I played in a college orchestra in grade school but after a disastrous chair audition I quit.

I picked up the guitar...

Just a reminder to y'all - if you are an original owner of a Mule and the guitar needs repair or a part or something, I got you. Send me an email and we will work something out.  If you've bought a Mule used and it needs...