Mule Resophonic Guitars

Jack Baumgartner and I met each other on social media about 10 years ago. The man’s depth as a human and an artist has inspired me to push and pull on what I do and why. Our phone conversations have followed the same format...

This is my new buddy, Ivan. Ivan, my friend Jack @baumwerkj and myself are cooking up something special for the NAMM show. Historically I’ll have some ridiculous idea, usually while on long solo car drives, and once I have...

This story is unbelievable enough to be true.

I started music when I was six. The violin. I played in a college orchestra in grade school but after a disastrous chair audition I quit.

I picked up the guitar...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....