Mule Resophonic Guitars

What is the boring composition chart you see above?  This is the composition of a tricone cone I sent to Metaltest in Washington state to have tested.   I'm in the process of getting my lathe set up to start spinning my own...

"Most precise...exacting...perfect....unwavering quality"  We hear a lot of words and phrases like that used when being referred to what makers make don't we?  Whether those words or true and honest or not is a subject for...

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...

Charley Hicks' three Mules. Charley is the man, and recorded every one of Charley Patton's songs on youtube. I'll start you off with this one: https://youtu.be/QGvXbSd0Muw Steel resonator guitars versus brass resonators....

  When the motivation to make a steel resonator guitar dropped in from above I had never cut a piece of metal, nor attached one piece of metal to another by means of tapping and threading, soldering, welding or the like....

There are a thousand different strings you could use for your resonator. Everything from cryogenically treated strings to strings shot into space to strings blessed by a shaman in a rainforest in South America. Unfortunately...

I know a lot has been written, lied about, explored and forgotten about guitar slides.  It's one of those things that are relatively cheap and you can fit five of them in your guitar case so, why not?  My perspective on a lot...

I never wanted to be a business person.  It still makes me feel awkward just to write it.  I just wanted to make things and support myself doing it.  I had attached (have attached) a lot of misconceptions about what it means...