A faithful reproduction of the 1957 5E3 Tweed Deluxe -- an 18-watt, cathode-biased grab-and-go amp with a simple Volume/Tone layout.
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Builds: Amps · Est. 2003
North Carolina boutique builder specializing in blackface and tweed-inspired single-ended amps and combos, with vintage tone focus.
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Notable gear
Amps
View all 23 amps →A hand-wired replica of the 1964 Fender Deluxe Reverb -- 22 watts with tube reverb and tremolo on a 12-inch Eminence speaker.
A hand-wired replica of the 1964 AB763 Fender Super Reverb chassis, built to order as a 4x10, 2x10, or 1x15 combo with tube reverb and tremolo.
The head-only version of the Lil King Amp, Headstrong's hand-wired 12-watt reproduction of the 1964 Fender Princeton Reverb.
An original low-wattage design (not a clone of one specific amp) with a full treble/mid/bass EQ, tube reverb, and a line-out, running 5-9 watts.
A hand-wired replica of the 1963 Fender Brown Vibroverb -- the first Fender circuit to build reverb in -- running 35 watts with tube reverb and bias-vary tremolo.
A hand-wired 20-watt combo built around the 1962 Fender Brown Deluxe circuit, with onboard bias-vary tremolo and a 12-inch speaker.
The high-power 'Big Box' Twin -- essentially the BL410 Bassman circuit built with four 6L6 tubes for 80 watts of the cleanest Tweed headroom Headstrong offers.
A 5E7 Tweed Bandmaster replica with three 10-inch Alnico speakers and a bluesy crunch from its intentional output-transformer/speaker impedance mismatch.