Buy your tickets to win this ridiculously awesome guitar. Ends December 23. Drawing will be on Christmas Eve.  https://www.muleresophonic.com/products/34235-muletide-christmas-raffle-guitar Hear it...

GUITAR RAFFLE: It’s never too early to talk about Christmas. The MuleTide Christmas raffle guitar is underway with this beautiful piece of curly Mango from Hawaii. This year the money will go to Saginaw Gateway to Recovery,...

Whats this? What. Is. THIS??? This, my spooky friends, is a resonator painted in the “blackest black in the known universe” Black 4.0 by Culture Hustle. 

May your bags be full of full size and none of that...

I was talking with a customer the other day about what tuning and strings he wanted his steel tricone sent out with.   He was planning and keeping it in Eb open D and didn't know what gauge he should use.  Normal stuff.  The...

The Mavis is getting comfortable in front of Harley Davidson’s cameras with Jason Momoa and Bones Owens using theirs for their shoots for Harley apparel. 

Matt ...

I was asked in a survey if I thought “handmade guitars are better than mass produced ones”. I said no - hard working people make both. The conversation is preoccupied with the ‘thing’ when it’s really trying to describe...

A new tool for Queens of the Stone Age. -Matt ...

I’ll be driving to Chicago to show these fine guitars at Fretboard Summit. I’ll be in the west building. Come say hi!



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The question “is handmade stuff better than factory made stuff?” is an overly simplified question. What does “handmade” or “better” mean? Leaving it at questions like that keeps the questions about “stuff” when buying from...

I got this email from Teresa Dopyera, the grand daughter of one of the inventors of the resonator guitar, three years ago on Christmas Eve. I saw the last name on the contact form and I honestly gasped. The timing was...

I wish I could tell 16 year old me, jamming to I Am Trying to Break Your Heart in his parents’ minivan that 25 years later he’d be in the fantastic city of New Orleans watching Nels Cline play it on a guitar he made right...

Hey New Orleans! I’m headed your way. I’ll have resonators you can check out at the craft tent this weekend at JazzFest if you’re into that sort of party. Let’s be friends. Also I’m pulling a Homer Simpson and will not leave...

Same highs you climb, same lows you go. Picture this:
You’ve been told that the cold you were fighting was sarcoma and you would die in a month.
You’re struggling to breathe.
You’ve had a round of chemotherapy....

Customer pick up days are the best days. When they receive their last progress pictures I thank them for “being part of the story”. The pictures show them their chapter and keep the conversation going. The quality of your...

When @trekbikes asked me to speak at their Innovation Summit - kind of a TEDtalk/fun product development day- I was as excited as I was terrified. I’ve learned this feeling is the cue to commit. So I said yes having no idea...

What's Mule about and where did we come from? Check our Six String Tales documentary for the answers. https://youtu.be/rO8ar0Jf-ic?si=2qWIRpRucrQVsBGI -Matt...

Why the 'Pegamule'? My friend Jack came up with the idea for the inside label for our guitars. A very pleasant mule and maple leaves turned into an anti-Apple Pegasus-mule in space standing on top of the earth. So this...

I showed up to the steel Quonset hut reflecting the 118 degree air back hotter yet. 15 yards past the spray booth were piled up junk cars. Surrounding the yard were rusty barbed wire fences too high to climb.  I was 19...

BUILD-A-MAVIS Instead of releasing random Modest Mavis on Mondays and having a list for the standard Mavis we are handing you the reigns. Want a Modest Mavis cutaway with a tort guard? Or carved back… flame top… you get the...

Hey Mom we’re in Fretboard Journal!
Jason Verlinde made this publication that makes the space for human stories. Guitars are the mechanism but people are the point. What an amazing thing to be a part of. Noah...