Mule Resophonic Guitars

These guitars don’t just show up on your doorstep. They are made for YOU by people who decided to dedicate their life to doing just that. When work begins you get to follow along through progress pictures and watch it come to...

My good friend Jeffrey Foucault is playing his album "Horse Latitudes" live tonight on his website. It's my favorite album of all albums.  Times are tough for musicians, probably the toughest,  and these live shows online are...

What’s left of Dustin’s three Mules. Dustin and his wife lost their house in the wildfires in California. Dustin is an OG Mule team member, I think he got his first in 2014 and was the first guitar we shipped to a deployed...

The Jae Foundation is a suicide prevention organization and they are auctioning off a Modest Mavis. You can bid on it here:  https://jaefound2023.ggo.bid/bidding/package/14135174 Read more about their mission and how they...

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...

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...

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...

We made a 12 string Mavis for Chris Turpin of Ida Mae and it is awesome. I also accidentally nicknamed this guitar while making this video… luckily it’s a tough name to beat. We’re going to keep making these babies, I just...

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or a saw a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like...

We ship internationally. There was a couple year stretch where we didn’t. Things were weird in the world in many ways and internationally shipped guitars ended up lost for months or apparently at the bottom of a swamp in...

Check out the first of two videos documenting the build of a tritone for Monica Valli: https://youtu.be/ccaPjjC6na0 Matt...

Some kind words in Guitar World Magazine, an interview with the incomparable Chris Turpin. 

Guitar World Article Video of me deliver The River to Chris. 

Delivering The River -Matt...

These three Modest Mavis will be posted for sale Monday May 20th at 10 am eastern. 

We post at least two modest Mavis every Monday at 10...

I saw people stand in line all day to take a picture with a picture of Zach Bryan. I saw a teenager named Christian’s face when he saw the guitars in person for the first time, “NO. WAY. “ I saw some of the biggest names in...

This is George. He retired today. If you got your Mule between 2012-2018 George was most likely the last one here in Saginaw to have a hand in getting you your new music tool. I would haul the boxes downstairs (or upstairs...

Last Saturday we hung out with Billy Gibbons. Yes, from ZZ Top.  They were playing in Saginaw on the other side of the parking garage from where Wynona Judd was also playing that night.  Wynona's guitar player, Charlie, came...

Guitar bracing. I love ladder braced guitars.  I had an Gibson LG that really opened my mind to what's going on inside the box.  Fraulini guitars... same thing.  Dale Fairbanks uses X braces, but they are unscalloped and they...