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The MuleCaster Lives
The MuleCaster Lives.
Neck through design because simple is awesome. Hipshot bender for pedal steel dreamy goodness. McNelly Pickups. It sounds alive, it looks so damn good.
I want to make one for you. One of the...
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Certificate of a Authenticity
In the home stretch of the carving for the certificate of authenticity done by Jack Baumgartner. Check out the detail. ...
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Resonator guitar set up
Sometimes I like to call these “resos for acoustic guitar players” The nut width is the standard 1 3/4”, not the typical wider 1.825 found on most resonators. You probably won’t play this guitar every song in your set, so...
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How We Set Up Resonators pt 2
Strings. It’s all about their tune and tension, right? We use Daddario flat tops, their resonator set, but replace the high 16 with a 15. The flat tops are just phosphor bronze strings that are polished. A bit warmer but much...
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Guitars of the Week
A present for a son, some flamey brass goodness, a steel cutaway - an excellent group. - Matt...
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Brass Resonators vs Steel Resonators
Charley Hicks' three Mules. Charley is the man, and recorded every one of Charley Patton's songs on youtube. I'll start you off with this one: https://youtu.be/QGvXbSd0Muw
Steel resonator guitars versus brass resonators....
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What are resonator guitar Cones made from? Resonator Biscuit Cone Material Revealed
What is the boring composition chart you see above? This is the composition of a tricone cone I sent to Metaltest in Washington state to have tested. I'm in the process of getting my lathe set up to start spinning my own...
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Oliver Bates Craven at Mule HQ
The Mini-Mule Sessions continue with stud muffin @oliverbatescraven This fella is one of my faves. We became friends while riding 600 miles pulling instruments on trailers with the @thesteelwheels . Oliver has got all the...
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Frontier Season 3
Jason Momoa wanted a dirty pink Mulecaster and I wanted to pretend to be a movie star. So I flew to a castle in the Uk, we drank Guinness for a week, and he stabbed the red coat version of me in the dunes. Season 3 of...
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Stay in The Fight
When the workout gets too hard to complete as prescribed "Stay in the fight." 20 squats every minute on the minute. You started and today it ain't happening. . Your panic brain will freak out and say "stop, you failed"....
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Neck carving
I carve necks by hand because I like it. I’ve carved over 1,000 by now, split almost evenly between Huss and Dalton and Mule. Guitars should be “inspirationally transparent”. A player should oooh and ahh and hear things they...
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