Jeffrey Foucault's Mule Resonator
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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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A Guitar, The Black Keys, and Grand Theft Auto

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...
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Fresh Ink

Mule tattoo #2. First one belongs to Dave Hick, this second one belongs to @vietnambarrie (check him out on Instagram). To have someone who doesn't even own one of your guitars tattoo one of your guitars onto their person -...
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This is Dave

This is Dave. He owns three (3) of our resonators, has a tattoo of our headstock inlay on his hand, and and plays some monstrous blues. He's on a mission to record all of Charley Patton's songs. There's 59 of them, he's got...
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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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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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Resonator Guitar to London, United Kingdom
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Randy's Patina

I think a special feature of these instruments is the patina. When I originally saw Kelly Joe Phelps play his National guitar, he made a joke about the chrome blinding the audience. I left wondering if I could build a steel...
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The Mule Team

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...
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Beer Me

Some people come to Mule for a tour, and some people come to Mule for a tour and bring us beer. We love all people equally, but some people we invite back....
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How to Carve a Guitar Neck (plus some banter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3QIG8GY8yI...
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Building Mule #100/Moving Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8yz5CjA2Q...
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Cell-e-phone Conference

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...
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B+

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...
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Resonator Fiddle Edge Dobro Ramp Mayhem

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....
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Charlie Parr and his Mule Resonator

This is a wonderful photo of Charlie Parr and his Mule, taken by Jason Marck....
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Building the Fiddle Edge for Mule #100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY_7ly0QHV8  ...
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No, Really

I had a guy on the internet try to tell me that this wasn't a tri-cone resonator with a single-cone coverplate. I told him that it was, that I made it, and showed him the pictures. After all that, it still sounded like he...
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