Tweed Deluxe Speed Shop

Welcome to the Home of the Best Sounding Tweed Amplifiers Available.

The Tweed Deluxe Speed Shop builds the finest Fender Tweed-era guitar amplifiers utilizing only the highest-quality new components as well as Speed Shop reverse-engineered TD58OT and TC58OT output transformers, A12Q and A10Q vintage AlNiCo speaker recreations, NOS (New Old Stock) resistors, capacitors, sockets, hardware - and vintage NOS tubes. From a stock vintage chassis to a full point-to-point 5E3-P2P combo featuring a heavy-relic cabinet, or a wild 5E3-6L6 head with 6384s to a custom Tweed-Era amplifier recreation built by Rondo to your specifications; nobody does it better. Read what customers have to say here.

ALL amplifiers are handmade by Rondo in Southwest Florida, USA, with American made parts.

January 2023: Update, and a Speed Shop 2x10 Bassman on the Bench

It's been a very busy several months with many amps shipping overseas and domestically - thanks everyone for the opportunity to build these amps for you. Otherwise, Speed Shop Bassmans are currently being assembled on the bench and I thought I should update the combo offering with a recent photo. Below is a Speed Shop Tweed Bassman 5F6a Dark Custom Combo featuring 2x A10Q AlNiCo speakers. Like the Speed Shop Super the Bassman will accept 5881, EL34, 6L6GC and more. Rondo's is currently running KT66s. Contact Rondo for more info.

December 2022 - Season's Greetings

Rondo takes a shot at Christmas Time Is Here by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson from A Charlie Brown Christmas

October 2022: Hurricane Ian Update

Many thanks to everyone who wrote in with concerns

We are doing fine and were very fortunate to have received only superficial damage from the storm
However our cleanup continues
Amp production will resume 10/17, but orders are being taken
Meanwhile, speaker and capacitor orders are being processed

Please consider a donation to the Florida Disaster Fund

Thanks again to all

Rondo

August 2022: New studio track "Willie" from Rondo

'68 335 lead guitars with some Strat and SG Junior on rhythms, also some Martin acoustic. All electrics through a Speed Shop 5E3-P2P, straight in. All guitars recorded by RecPro Audio VAC Preamp (vintage tube reproduction). Steely / Sneaker inspired. Download the MP3 here: Willie

Update July 2022: Output Transformers!

I am now personally assembling and finishing my TD-58-OT output transformers in-house, with windings supplied by a premier US manufacturer. I have also started CNC winding my own coils, and within the next few months all TD-58-OT output transformers will be 100% manufactured by me, Rondo, here in the Speed Shop. Manufacturing these transformers myself ensures that each unit is made with the correct materials to the correct vintage (1958) specs, and with consistently great performance that I can tune. This was a major R&D undertaking that I have been working on for over a year, and I'm very proud to have achieved this difficult goal. I'm pretty excited about it, as making my own transformers is a milestone in my work and represents a bit of a new era - and another step in the evolution of Speed Shop R&D.

TD-58-OT output transformers are only available with Speed Shop amps and are not sold separately.