We are pleased to offer the LUXE Vintage Repro capacitors, the worlds finest and best Caps for restauration or update your guitar. Each Cap is handmade, over an audio grade film cap. For sample... The repro paper wrappers and cap-ends are sealed with vintage 40-year-old paraffin (for that extra mojo!) The measurements vary, each cap is the exact size of its authentic counterpart. These really look, smell, and feel like the originals.

We offer Vintage Repro Caps for
-Fender guitars 1951-1972
-Gibson Guitars like Grey Tiger and Bumble Bee caps
...also Vintage caps for AMPS !!!!

We have the exclusive Distribution for GERMANY, NETHERLAND, ITALY and Austria. Dealers can contact us for Pricelist.

Why should you use these caps?
Most will agree that a vintage paper in oil cap has the best sound for a vintage instrument. But the problem with many old caps (film and wax-paper) is that they dry out and begin to leak. Vintage Vitamin Q type caps, on the other hand, made for the military, are sealed in glass and encased in metal, so they can handle flying through space and guiding missiles.

They don't leak unless you smash them with a hammer. When you install a 50-year-old Vitamin Q cap in your guitar, you get the exact sound that your guitar was meant to have. When you install one of my caps in your guitar, you get a 30 to 50 year old, unused, Paper in Oil cap that looks exactly like the cap that should be there, that will last forever. Not bad, eh?

Wax Capacitor Replicating:

Each of my reproduction wax capacitors is made with the same materials and methods as the original. The only difference is that instead of a foil and paper “slug” at the core, I use a NOS Vitamin Q type paper and oil capacitor. These were manufactured from the 1950s through the 1980s by various companies, like Sprague, for military and aerospace use. Unlike other types of capacitors, the dielectric and foil in these are sealed in a metal and glass tube, making them impervious to heat and moisture. They do not degrade with time and they do not drift in value. They have the added bonus of having an oil-soaked paper as the dielectric, which (and this is a popular topic for discussion) has a more “musical” quality than any other dielectric. I confess that I do not understand how this can be, it’s only electricity, and electricity doesn’t care, but just like a record sounds better than a cd and a ’55 Champ sounds better than a Peavey, PIO caps just sound better.

I have a large assortment of tubs, cartons and cakes of old waxes, rosins and pitches that I use to make my various coatings and potting solutions. In the interest of proper Mojo, I make sure that every cap I make uses some raw materials from the appropriate era. My recipes follow the same ones used by the original manufacturers, with some changes. For example: I do not use Dykanol or any other chemicals in my capacitors. Most capacitors made before 1956 were coated with a blend of pitch and petroleum jelly, this is the nasty sticky stuff that radio guys hate, I make this coating with pitch and beeswax. It looks the same, but it doesn’t get all over the place.

Hallo,
ich habe die Luxe-Bumblebees jetzt in meine Paula eingelötet und ausgiebig getestet: Es ist ein Genuss.
Das hätte ich diesen kleinen Dingern nicht zugetraut. Es fühlt sich wie eine völlig andere Gitarre an. Das ist schon echt erstaunlich. Ich finde, dass sich der komplette Frequenzgang geändert hat. Nicht nur, dass es mehr in die Tiefe geht und oben rum etwas bedämpft ist, auch alles was dazwischen liegt, klingt anders als vorher. Und das Spielgefühl ist echt gut.
Ich danke dir für die tolle Anregung!

Mit besten Grüßen aus Weimar

Thomas

Liebe Barbara,

erst gestern habe ich die Bumblebees in meinen Gibson eingebaut - es haute
mich voellig um. So einen warmen, dynamischen und vollen Raumklang, habe ich
noch nicht erlebt. Was ganz hervorragend ist, die Bumblebees reproduzieren
absolut treu den wahren Klang des Holzes! Vielleicht klingen die Bursts aus
1958-60 so, aber die neueren Gittaren, die koennen sowas nicht.
"Es ist ein Wunder geschehen", der aus der kleinen schoenen Dose kam. Jetzt
bin ich der Alladin!

Vielen Dank und alles Gute

Zdenek

Tschechische Republik