Mule Resophonic Guitars

Mule Resophonic Guitars Handmade steel resonator guitar goodness by Matt Eich. Played by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and Kelly Joe Phelps -kellyjoephelps.net. Guitars. Steel.

Hand crafted acoustic guitar knowledge learned at Huss and Dalton. www.muleresophonic.com

knocked it out of the park first time at bat with her first EP Red Blood Moon. It’s out now- go on and get it.
09/28/2025

knocked it out of the park first time at bat with her first EP Red Blood Moon. It’s out now- go on and get it.

09/27/2025



I was asked in a survey if I thought “handmade guitars are better than mass produced ones”. I said no - hard working people make both. The conversation is preoccupied with the ‘thing’ when it’s really trying to describe the connection. We do that a lot. With small shop guitars (my made up phrase to more honestly portray modern guitar making) it’s that the stories of the people who make them and the people who play them are closer. That’s a special thing.

(Heart-on-sleeve warning)
The second picture is Adam after he got his guitar out of customs. He sent it to me when I was salmon fishing on the west side of Michigan. I saw that Christmas Morning smile and I showed my friends in the boat. Two camo’d up Michiganders and one south side Chicagoan who had never caught a fish in his life on the Pere Marquette listening to a Spaniard on a guitar one of them had made. The connection is more important than “better”.

He and I have been communicating the whole time using the handy “translate” feature in the DM’s. The third picture is his reaction. Im not sharing it as a mindless marketing gimmick-I’m not here to insult anyone’s intelligence. It’s an example of what I mean when I repeat something one of the greatest guitar makers of all time, Ken Parker, said at the nerdiest (affectionately) guitar gathering: music is the most important thing in the world. A person commits their life to making instruments. Tools. Each holding sounds that influence musical choices. Another commits to playing them. A song is written that wouldn’t have been. We are most human when we recognize something about ourselves in someone else and in that boat, 4283 miles away, there was that cosmic recognition.

Music is “emotions that words alone cannot express.” Pain. Protest. Mostly love. That complicatedly simple brutal thrilling devastatingly beautiful human condition. Someone sings out loud something we’ve felt but couldn’t describe. The song could be hundreds of years old, the summer hit of the year, or it’s in Spanish. I’m watching faces in the crowd singing the same words as me, feeling the same feelings, moving the same ways.

We’re all facing the same direction.

knocked it out of the park first time up to the plate. For real. Her EP is out now, go on and get it.
09/26/2025

knocked it out of the park first time up to the plate. For real.

Her EP is out now, go on and get it.

I can’t keep up- new music from too? We’ve got it on now. ♥️♥️♥️What an unreal week.
09/26/2025

I can’t keep up- new music from too? We’ve got it on now. ♥️♥️♥️

What an unreal week.

.parr on film. And .guitar too. From our Reso workshop this summer is Wisconsin.
09/20/2025

.parr on film. And .guitar too. From our Reso workshop this summer is Wisconsin.

This is a green Mulecaster. The body is made out of steel. The pickups are low output minihumbuckers. And although I lov...
09/19/2025

This is a green Mulecaster. The body is made out of steel. The pickups are low output minihumbuckers. And although I love me a mini humbucker they aren’t what makes these sound so 3D.

It really is the steel. The steel doesn’t absorb vibration as much as wood does. It also sounds …well… metallic. The hollow body thickens up the steel sound. Opposites. Balance. That’s what triggers your ears to tell you you’re listening to something interesting. Is it twangy? Yes and no. Is it thick? Yes and no.

Your ears wake up. The bigger change you make the more waking up they do.

09/12/2025

Bourbon and Beyond Day 1. I got to see the Alabama Shakes and you fine people. .s.emerson stopped by with his mulecaster too. The man is a walking smile. I randomly met a guy who used my friend as a guide on Sunday in Michigan and we talked about salmon and steelhead for probably a half hour.

Handing someone an instrument they understandably think is a “slide guitar” and not for them and then seeing the musical light bulbs turn on 30 seconds is awesome and getting off of the socials and talking with you all in person is one of my favorite things.

Come by and say hello.

We’re here. New lay out, same tent. You’ll find us and our guitars in the Experience Music tent by the food and beer are...
09/11/2025

We’re here. New lay out, same tent. You’ll find us and our guitars in the Experience Music tent by the food and beer area by the Revival stage. Come say hi and play stuff.

09/10/2025

Hey y’all! Currently stuck in traffic on our way to . The most badass festival of the year when we get to see you fine people and we’ve got guitars for you to get your sweaty festival mitts on. Come say hi and drink a beer with us at the tent.

Repost from Becker Muscular Dystrophy event at St James’ Park in Newcastle Upon Tyne 🤍🖤🤍🖤 Thanks to TREAT-NMD for anoth...
09/07/2025

Repost from Becker Muscular Dystrophy event at St James’ Park in Newcastle Upon Tyne 🤍🖤🤍🖤 Thanks to TREAT-NMD for another chance to grow this community and share all the positive news incoming / ongoing, very honoured to have been asked to take part and meet new people …. So excited to do it all again in MALAGA next weekend 🇪🇸 !!!

09/03/2025

.school.of.luthiery 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 years old and I had flown from Michigan to the distant planet of Phoenix, AZ. In Michigan we have a mere 200 miles less of coastline than California and all of it is drinkable. In Phoenix sometimes you couldn’t get water from the tap. Here they told us to check our shoes for bugs that might kill us. In the Mitten the air hurts our face from October-March, here during summer you couldn’t hold the steering wheel.

I couldn’t try to capture the spirit of the man before my time, John Roberts, aka “Juan Roberto”, the school’s founder. The alias picked because it sounded more suitable for a luthier. The wood to start the school was apparently torn from old boats. His multi-neck, turquoise inlaid acoustic guitar is a folk icon to the spirit of this place - the headquarters for the motorcycle club of the guitar making world - The Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery. I could, however, attempt to capture the spirit of the place through it’s past and present leaders.

I was 19, keep in mind, and had never been anywhere except Chicago where everyone is from Michigan or Wisconsin anyways. My bench at Roberto-Venn was next to a pagan, a jew, and an atheist who read Bertrand Russell at lunch. The director of training spent more time telling us about spirituality,, the cyclical nature of all things, and the times he’s had his friends leave him in the desert to walk back home than he did how make instruments. The main instructor, John, is the football coach of the place, and has played in the best Grateful Dead Cover band on the planet for 30 years while missing the same finger Jerry Garcia was plus another. Rob is the Pedro Pascal of the place, cool and kind and when I went back 20 years later was still listening to classical music all day. Vibrant characters you couldn’t make up. As varied as they are wonderful. The perfect introduction that making instruments is as much about the humans involved as it is the instrument itself.

Even though I really wanted to keep all of these at least they are going to you fine people. Happy Labor Day, I’m goin’ ...
09/01/2025

Even though I really wanted to keep all of these at least they are going to you fine people.

Happy Labor Day, I’m goin’ fishin.

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