One pair of hands.
Honeymaker is a one-person workshop in Portland, Oregon, building tube amplifiers and small-batch parts for guitar players who want gear that lasts and that has something to say.
Pete Hensing — at the bench
I’m Pete Hensing. I’ve been taking apart and putting back together amplifiers since I was a teenager, and building them in earnest since 2018.
Honeymaker exists because the amps I wanted to plug into weren’t on the market anymore — or were priced as collectibles instead of working tools. So I learned to build them. The shop is small on purpose. I do the work myself: design, fabrication, wiring, voicing, finishing, packing.
Philosophy
Every amp I build is point-to-point wired on turret board, not PCB. Not because hand-wiring is automatically better — it isn’t always — but because this work asks for components I can choose, layouts I can revise, and a serviceable design that will outlive the maker. A good amp should be repairable in fifty years.
What I build
Two amplifier models — The Honeymaker (15W, 1×12) and The Nymph (5W, 1×8) — plus a small line of parts including the Brass Saddle №1 for vintage Telecaster bridges. Builds are made to order. Repairs and re-voicing of vintage amps are taken on a case-by-case basis.
Where to find me
The shop is in Portland, Oregon and runs by appointment. The best way to reach me is by email — short and direct works well.