The Tallest Mule. When doing something new do you wait until the grand reveal or let people in on the secret? Marketing strategies be damned… here’s a 12 string Mavis with soundboard back in the works for @surfburst He needed...

I’ve talked about how your truss rod is not an action adjuster. It’s really, really not. 

Here’s how the action is set and adjusted on resonators. It’s best done by a shop because of the special files involved but...

I’m standing in the middle of a riot next to Mat #28. There’s over 70 men fighting at the same time. Fighters. They aren’t foamy ex frat boys at a local bar. Their face bones have changed from the pressure of being pushed...

In Las Vegas competing at the jiujitsu World Championships for the second time. It’s equally exciting as it is terrifying - which usually means I’m doing the right thing. Back next week.
-Matt...

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 Mule Bus is going to load up and head out to @bourbonandbeyond festival in Louisville middle of September. There’s going to be a Mule player there almost every day with The Killers, The Black Keys, and Bruno Mars. Also…...

Watch the epic video of the process making here: https://youtu.be/HeXH_IMIuzc The new Mule T-bridge is here! The t-bridge is the direct connection between the strings and the cones in a resonator guitar. Every T bridge since...

Music tools make more than music. They make us sit in parking lots and play instruments with people we don't know. They bring thousands of unconnected people and compel them to sleep in their cars together and dance in the...

Promenade in green... This show was 1,000 years old. Outside at the muddy base of a un-aging mountain range. Strings of lights cutting the campsite from the natural order around it. The crowd traveling down the mountains to...

I'm in Iowa parked in the back of a Planet Fitness parking lot. Its 11:30 pm and there's a surprising amount of people working out. It's a parking lot of misfit toys - an odd assortment of vehicles with people sleeping in...

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Don’t just do stuff. Things are worth thinking deeply about. The more intention applied, the more we train ourselves to see during the process, the more we integrate what we...

View link to hear it acoustically: https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2045283
“Can I play it acoustic?” That was the number one question three years ago when after a week of manic building and some encouragement by...

These instruments are music tools and people have been putting them to work.  Videos of people using these guitars to inspire and push their playing is my greatest joy.   Thats why I started Mule and why we continue to do...

Why do I make guitars? These ones, specifically.
You. Don't freak out, it's nothing personal. It's just that when you're sitting in a song circle in the Shenandoah Valley and everyone is belting "Paradise" while playing...

These Mules are music tools. What do they build? Inspiration. What's inspiration? Sure, sometimes a song drops from heaven onto the back of a napkin at a diner, or you wake up with a tune in your head you record on your...

Although we did suspend international shipping during Covid because of carriers losing or delaying instruments dramatically we have been shipping guitars internationally for the past year or so. We will continue to do...

This not-so Modest Mavis was sold yesterday but there’s more where this came from. The Modest Mavis are our chance to stretch our luthier-legs a bit and try some new ideas that (usually) don’t add much to the $2700 price....

I woke up to a text message with a picture of a bandaged index finger. I don’t remember what the words in the text were exactly but what I said out loud was “oh shit”. Dave had sent me a picture of the tattoo he had just...

Jeff and Diane Huss at Mule HQ. "So... what kind of music do you listen to?" This was the first question Jeff asked at my interview at Huss and Dalton-my first guitar making job. I was 20. Kelly Joe Phelps had upended my...