RAW VINTAGE
RAW VINTAGE
Also known as: Raw Vintage USA, Raw Vintage Parts
UnclaimedRaw Vintage is a guitar parts brand distributed by Prosound Communications, the Japan-based company also behind Xotic Effects. The line is built around drop-in replacements for vintage-style electric guitars, with products manufactured and hand-assembled in Southern California. Its catalog centers on three core categories: pickups, tremolo springs, and bridge saddles.
The company is best known...
Raw Vintage is a guitar parts brand distributed by Prosound Communications, the Japan-based company also behind Xotic Effects. The line is built around drop-in replacements for vintage-style electric guitars, with products manufactured and hand-assembled in Southern California. Its catalog centers on three core categories: pickups, tremolo springs, and bridge saddles.
The company is best known for its RVTS-1 tremolo spring set and its Pure Steel Saddles, both designed to recapture the feel and tone of original 1950s Fender hardware. The springs use a specific wire diameter and nickel-plating process to alter tension and torque feel, while the saddles are reverse-engineered from vintage steel saddles and nickel-plated directly onto the steel body. Pickups in the line include the RV-50 single-coil set voiced for 50s Stratocaster tones, the hotter RV-60 60s-style set, and the RV-5760 PAF-style humbucker, all wound with Alnico 5 magnets, Formvar copper wire, and cloth push-back leads.
Raw Vintage occupies a niche aimed at players and luthiers restoring or modding vintage-style instruments, and its parts are commonly stocked by boutique retailers and used in custom builds where period-correct tone and feel are the goal.
RAW VINTAGE has 1 product cataloged on Equipboard, including Miscellaneous Guitar Parts.
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