Modest Mavis Mondays

Modest Mavis Mondays

The Modest Mavis are guitars that are $2700 and have no wait list. We build a couple each week and release them Monday mornings, EST. 

There’s no wait list to get on for them, Monday Mornings are your chance to pick...
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Dallas Guitar Show

Dallas Guitar Show

I'm standing on the front of a 400 LB Dallas Guitar Show pallet tipping precariously down a ramp made from a big piece of steel "strapped" to the loading dock so hopefully it doesn't slide and dump the pallet. I'm about to...
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NAMM day 1

NAMM day 1

NAMM can be about stuff or it can be about people. Shuji @bluebell_straps @nicolecerminara @markhopkinsmusic @simona_malandrino @austinonguitar @zeppelinbarnatra @rhettshull @beetronics Pops Mule


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The Dinnie Stones

The Dinnie Stones

My good friend and spirit animal Dave Hicks took his tricone to see the mighty Dinnie stones in Scotland. In Scotland there are historical tests of strength called lifting stones. Most are massive. The Dinnies combined are...
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Jae Foundation Modest Mavis

Jae Foundation Modest Mavis

The Jae Foundation is a suicide prevention organization and they are auctioning off a Modest Mavis. You can bid on it here:  https://jaefound2023.ggo.bid/bidding/package/14135174 Read more about their mission and how they...
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Namm

Namm

NAMM. I love it. We don’t have sales guys in bowling shirts saying the same things like they are new things. It’s me and Pops Mule. My dad doesn’t even play guitar. But I brought him to my first NAMM and he loved it too. Last...
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NAMM Pallet

NAMM Pallet

When you need a pallet full of awesome guitars to Safely get to NAMM, get you a man who has been shot in the neck in Albuquerque and survived. Bahaa begins his cross country Mule Road Trip now. All the driving is tough on...
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NAMM!

NAMM!

NAMM is next week! Come see us at booth #4933. 

-Matt ...
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#1000 and The Scavenger Hunt

#1000 and The Scavenger Hunt

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...
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MODEST MAVIS

MODEST MAVIS

The reason we do this is to get people inspirational musical tools. Seeing what comes out of combining our work with yours is our greatest joy. 

The Modest Mavis is the work horse version of our standard Mavis....
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Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind

Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind

Zach came up to Mule HQ for the tailgate before Jason Isbell's show. Zach has a Mule and the thing with customers is that a lot of times they end up being friends. "In Grateful Cooperative Labor" is on the certificates that...
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Mule Bass

Mule Bass

It’s been a while since the other tenants complained about the noise so we made something more thunderous. Hollow steel body Mule Bass

-Matt


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Not a slide guitar

Not a slide guitar

Who plays these resonator guitars? After 1700 instruments I can tell you 8/10 customers have never owned a resonator guitar before. I’m tremendously proud of that. You can do anything with them, it’s just a tool. They aren’t...
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Progress pictures

Progress pictures

These guitars don’t just show up on your doorstep. They are made for YOU by people who decided to dedicate their life to doing just that. When work begins you get to follow along through progress pictures and watch it come to...
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International Orders are open

International Orders are open

We have a limited number of international spots available each month  I stopped shipping internationally during Covid because shipping was a mess - guitars were lost for months, one ended up in a swamp in Spain. Things are...
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The laundromat

The laundromat

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. I'm 18 and pre-cellphones every alarm made the same disastrous noise. It's 1 A.M. and that means the dryers at the laundromat are free so I grab my laundry bag and walk across the soundless complex...
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What are the ebony dots for?

What are the ebony dots for?

Find out here : https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044327 -Matt...
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John Smith - “River”

John Smith - “River”

John Smith playing “River” on his Mavis  merry Muletide! https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044217...
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Celisse - “ Rockin Around the Christmas Tree”

Celisse ripping “rocking around the Christmas tree” on a tricone.
https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044204...
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Mule-tide Carols: Tyler Bryant

Mule-tide Carols: Tyler Bryant

Tyler Bryant rocking Christmas: https://www.muleresophonic.com/admin/videos/2044182...
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