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...
Read more

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...
Read more

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....
Read more

How to Carve a Guitar Neck (plus some banter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3QIG8GY8yI...
Read more

Building Mule #100/Moving Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8yz5CjA2Q...
Read more

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...
Read more

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...
Read more

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....
Read more