Know Your Limits

Know Your Limits

  How much is too much? Too much work, too much leisure... too much talk, too much doing?   Sometimes finding the questions is the hardest part.   Are you working too hard? Are you working hard enough?   Are you enjoying...
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Mule Beanies On Sale

https://www.mulestuff.com/product/mule-charity-beanie-Matt...
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holes

holes

those are some snazzy looking f holes you got there ...
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Ariel Posen at Mule HQ - Get You Back

https://youtu.be/YleLKXaKqww...
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Books to Buy

If you are guitar maker, resonator guitar enthusiast, or are just looking for a good book- Guitar Lesson by Bob Taylor and  The Way of the Seal by Mark Divine are two of the most helpful I've read this year. The hard part of...
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Ant Hill Luthiery

Ant Hill Luthiery

I was listening to the radio a while back and they had a scientist on to talk. She studied ants. First I was stunned that there was such a thing, second that she most likely was not the only ant researcher. She spent all her...
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Aggregate Alternatives

A bit of a tangent but it still applies. We tend to think of alternatives in aggregate. "If I didn't work this job I could start that business, go back to school and still have more free time." We take the best parts of all...
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Challenging Assumptions

I never wanted to be a business person.  It still makes me feel awkward just to write it.  I just wanted to make things and support myself doing it.  I had attached (have attached) a lot of misconceptions about what it means...
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Resonator Fiddle Edge Dobro Ramp Mayhem

Making stuff to make stuff. A brass fiddle edged tricone, complete with fingerboard ramp, modeled after Dan Auerbach's 1935 Dobro, that I had the privilege to possess temporarily. SWEET GOODNESS I'M PUMPED....
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Cell-e-phone Conference

Me talking to Mark and Anna from Room 608 in NewYork City. In what they call a "conference room". They have 7 Emmy awards and 18 Emmy nominations between them and they are making an episode for a maker series for PBS. It will...
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B+

I use the B grade ebony that the large manufacturers don't use because it isn't jet black. I can see why. I mean, look how boring that is. Please, Guitar Builders of the World, continue using the great looking jet black...
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Sweet Sign, New Shop

Oooooooooo....
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On Tour with The Steel Wheels

On Tour with The Steel Wheels

Trusty Mule in hand, I drove the van for the Steel Wheels solo from Virginia to Boulder, CO.  This is Jay's new Mule and it will be making it's rounds around the west for the next two weeks.  I'll be there two, I love the...
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Mule Resonator #146

Owner Maker Spender Spy: Maker/Owners Part 1 - You Don't Know What You Don't Know

Owner/makers have a lot of different things to improve on. Problem is we sprint from seemingly necessary shiny thing to shiny thing, meanwhile digging holes that we sprint back to later to fill in. And since many of us are...
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Maker Owner Spender Spy: Forced Dissonance

Maker Owner Spender Spy: Forced Dissonance

  Yes! I totally made up that phrase. Thesaurus in hand.  Aren't ALL words made up? It took forever, go easy on me. The point is this: if you're trying to solve a problem - not enough orders, not enough time, etc - there...
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Brass Resonator Guitar - Single Cone

Burn the Boat

I read a book by Mark Divine and in it was this quote. "Burn the boat." The point was committing to do something before you knew how to do it.  Arrive on shore, and then burn the boat.  Not as a test of strength, but...
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Be a Beginner

Be a Beginner

    (Above) My first set of spun tricones. Let yourself be a beginner. It's been said before. But....how?  Why don't you?  I think we skip the beginner stage because we have good taste.  We know what's awesome, what we...
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11 Rules of Working

Answer this question first. What do you want from work? You will get more than nothing and you can't have everything, the rest is up to you. Stay thankful. You've been given an opportunity. You are entitled to nothing....
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