The Vintage Series

The BCS Vintage kits are built to give your guitar a bigger, more full bodied tone that is infused with the warmth found in the vintage guitars of the 50’s and 60’s.  We use high quality components throughout these kits to achieve optimum performance because we understand that your guitars tone is only as good as its weakest link. 

 We use 500K CTS pots made for MOJO and we test each pot to make sure that it is within + or – 10% tolerance and has a good logarithmic taper.  We also use Switchcraft switches and jacks for reliable switching and connections and we also use Oak Grigsby switches on kits using blade style switches.  All the wiring in the Vintage kits is 18 gauge thick stranded wire that is wax coated, cloth covered and has an external braided shield. Lastly for no additional cost you can have volume mods added to your kit to keep your guitars presence up when dialing down the volume. This option does change the taper of the volume control a little bit in that the volume drops about 50% by the time your knob is turned between 6 & 7 and then the taper smooths out more (All photos of the Vintage series are shown with the optional volume mods).

At the heart of the Vintage kits are the MOJO Vitamin T oil filled capacitors. These capacitors deliver the warmth and tone associated with the vintage Bumblebee capacitors used in vintage Gibsons without costing a fortune. We did a comparison recording between the Vitamin T’s and a pair of vintage Bumblebees and the results were impressive. The Vitamin T’s have the same tone as the Bumblebees but they also let through just a little more volume. If we turned the recording of the Bumblebees up just little (very little about 2db) or turned the Vitamin T recording down they sounded identical.

These kits give your pickups what they need to perform at their very best and can even make some cheap stock pickups sound pretty decent. The high quality components allow for a better transfer of electricity through your guitar which brings out all the depth and subtleties in your tone. Take a listen to the clip “Gravity”, it was recorded with a $199.00 Agile AL-2000 with its stock pickups and our Vintage kit installed. Both the leads and the rythm were recorded with this guitar. 
  

Gravity

The BCS Vintage kits are wired to vintage schematics and newer guitars (Ibanez, ESP, etc…) are wired in a similar fashion to bring out the warm, full bodied tone associated with vintage guitars. Also we will gladly custom wire them to your request or you can order an unassembled kit and wire it yourself.

At this time we have only the Les Paul and ES335 wiring kits available in the Vintage but we will have kits for the SG available very soon. We will also be offering Vintage kits for the Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars in the near future.

Click on the kit of your choice for details and ordering.