Mule

Jay Lapp of The Steel Wheels with his Mule.  www.thesteelwheels.com ...

All photos by Miles Nitz. miles.nitz@yahoo.com Custom Mule Resophonic Guitar built for Kelly Joe Phelps. Brazilian Cherry fingerboard. Unstained, compensated biscuit bridge. Hey Matt, The guitar made it here alright, no...

Custom steel resonator guitar built for Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys....

What we have here is Mule #19. Almost 20, but not quite. Better than some meaningless number, this is going to a good friend of mine, one of the best in fact, Elias Rådelius. He traveled here from Sweden during highschool...

I'll be helping these fine fellas pull their instruments on bicycles 350 miles through North Carolina the next two weeks. If I'm slow on the reply it's because I'm struggling up a mountain somewhere, fear not, I will respond....

I was reminiscing a bit about my summer adventure to Sweden and thought I would share some pictures.  One of my best friends, Elias, lives there with his family.  Through the grapevine I ended up selling four instruments in...

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...

Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys is preparing his Mule for the road next year, so he was kind enough to send me his super cool 1930's Dobro to check out.  It has fiddle edges and a spider cone.  Lots of exploring and learning...

This is part of our "Mule Map". Whenever a guitar is shipped, a little tack gets placed on its destination. Pretty nifty. (My mom made it.) A pretty frequent question I get is whether or not I ship guitars to other...

I had a guy on the internet try to tell me that this wasn't a tri-cone resonator with a single-cone coverplate. I told him that it was, that I made it, and showed him the pictures. After all that, it still sounded like he...

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This is a wonderful photo of Charlie Parr and his Mule, taken by Jason Marck....

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....

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...

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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