Black Market Mules

Black Market Mules

Looking to buy a used Mule? Here are some things to consider. https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2043958...
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10 years of Mule.

10 years of Mule.

10 years of Mule. When I was 27 I saw Kelly Joe Phelps play a resonator and he changed my life for the second time. He showed me what this instrument was capable of expressing. I didn’t recognize it then but he showed me what...
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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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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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Dave Hick

Dave Hick

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...
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Resonator strings

Resonator strings

Resonator guitars are just guitars. We are in a shift where people are seeing them as the music tools they are - different sounds create different musical choices. No high set ups suitable only for the 12 feet wiggle. You...
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Music Tools

Music Tools

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...
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Charlie Parr at Pine Creek Lodge

Charlie Parr at Pine Creek Lodge

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...
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Losing

Losing

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...
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Chris Turpin’s 12 string Mavis

Chris Turpin’s 12 string Mavis

12 string Mavis with a soundboard back for Chris Turpin @surfburst. The man needed a new tool of destruction with way more strings on it so here we go! The top is one from my secret stash. I love it because it looks like...
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Makin’ Mules: Royal Bell’s Mule

Makin’ Mules: Royal Bell’s Mule

Makin’ Mules # 2. With these behind the scenes videos I want to put people first- the customers, employees, and musicians who are connected through the process of making these instruments. Song is “To Your Love” by...
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Guitarist Magazine

Guitarist Magazine


Check out the feature on all of Chris Turpin’s Mules in the new issue of Guitarist magazine. 

Matt...
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Mule Bus Stop: Charlie Parr

Mule Bus Stop: Charlie Parr

“Is that… that’s Charlie Parr! Will you sign my guitar?” Charlie and I are eating food truck egg rolls on a bench out front of Ore Dock Brewing at the top of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The U. P. Is the lower 48’s alaska....
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The Mavis

The Mavis

New sounds inspire new songs. The MAVIS. I made the first after my brain ran downhill one weekend coming up with a guitar for a friend. I set out to make it the following week. It’s a combination of elements of guitars I...
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Joey Landreth and Ariel Posen’s guitars

Joey Landreth and Ariel Posen’s guitars

Ariel Posen ‘s baritone short scale (25.5) steel Stratomule and Joey Landreth’s Hipshot Mulecaster being friends at the Mule shop.  You can string up any 25.5” guitar with 18-64’s and tune it to standard B. Don’t freak out...
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Financing Available

Financing Available

Hey All! FINANCING AVAILABLE -  We now work with a financing company to provide monthly installments. Get on the list. Apply with them. They deposit the amount in your bank account. You pay us the full remainder and then pay...
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The Mule Bus

The Mule Bus

We bought a van. ⁣

We know it’s best to say thank you in person. We want to say thank you to you Mule-fiends and all the musicians who use our instruments for a living. ⁣

Mule has always been about people -...
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Connections

Connections

That’s @bennettdeanlewis. We shared a slide on Saturday, it was our second time hanging out. He plays a Mulecaster with Maren Morris and we went to see him enjoy playing music more than probably anyone. The first time I...
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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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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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