Mule Resophonic Guitars

When we don't find our 'why' everything is a chore.  Find it and everything becomes an opportunity.  Work isn't just "a job" -  it provides purpose, satisfaction, and supplies relationships.   It's a mechanism for...

Music tools make more than music. They make us sit in parking lots and play instruments with people we don't know. They bring thousands of unconnected people and compel them to sleep in their cars together and dance in the...

https://youtu.be/8S15xoWEi0M?si=lXyCXZxRfkoLXC83 I spend all year waiting for the day I can repost Joey's video of him playing The Christmas Song.   Iconic. It's official - Merry Christmas! Matt...

We got big news coming end of November and we needed a big way to tell it. I cold called Jacob @rockinpmules, a life-long mule trainer in southern Michigan, and he along with his mules Henry and Shelby stepped up to...

My friend Chris Prescott over at Six String Tales just put out this EPIC documentary on how Mule came to be and why we do what we do.  It's a one stop shop for anything about Mule. Check it...

The topic of failure came up yesterday at jiujitsu and reminded me of the LL Bean video. 

https://youtu.be/hmxjBN0tC5I “Failure is not part of the process, it is the process"⁣
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We all fail consistently of...

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I fulfill my childhood dream of talking to real life violin makers on the Omo Podcast. Lots of ranty stuff, listen to beau hannam talk about his cool ukes and guitars and then I start at 38 minutes. ...

I’ll be on my way to the Tippy Dam area of the Manistee National Forest here in Michigan in search of some summer run steelhead and to pedal some bike, two of my happy places. This means any inquiries and questions while I’m...

This RARELY happens... like almost never happens, that we have a guitar around ready to ship.  But we have here a steel single cone with an outstanding fingerboard ready to go. You can make it yours and skip the wait...

If you flip through books for the pictures like me head over to this link for literally hundreds of final pictures of Mules. https://www.muleresophonic.com/photo_albums...

In very limited quantity. Last month they sold out in under 1 minute. There were 340 people on the website and they clicked refresh over 3,700 times. Reso-fiends! If next week you break out the torches and pitch forks gimme a...

The jokes on me... 105 reso-savages blew up the wait list in 15 hours... you fiends! Guess I gotta keep making em, eh? I can’t wait to hear where you take these guitars. Making these musical tools for people and the stories...

This theme keeps coming up this week - community and connection.   The Mule-tide Christmas videos are an example of this. Sometimes we can be overwhelmed to inaction by thinking too big -“How can I help everyone...

Tyler Bryant rocking Christmas: https://www.muleresophonic.com/admin/videos/2044182...

Celisse ripping “rocking around the Christmas tree” on a tricone.
https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044204...

Watch the epic video of the process making here: https://youtu.be/HeXH_IMIuzc The new Mule T-bridge is here! The t-bridge is the direct connection between the strings and the cones in a resonator guitar. Every T bridge since...

In Las Vegas competing at the jiujitsu World Championships for the second time. It’s equally exciting as it is terrifying - which usually means I’m doing the right thing. Back next week.
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They’re “guitars”. Music tools. What you build with them is up to you. They are set up like normal acoustic guitars. (Pro tip: don’t raise the action to play slide, just use a slide that fits like a @therockslide and practice...