The original BC Rich guitars from the 80s are total metal guitars. We went to buy my son one about 2 years ago at Guitar Center and the ones that I tried were made in Korea and were crap. We ended up buying a 1983 on eBay and it's a great, well made guitar. The '83 that we bought is called the NJ Mockingbird but was actually built in Japan and is a neck-through-body. The quality is excellent and cost us about $1300.
I'd stay away from the newer, Korean built BC Rich if you can afford to.

Here's some more info from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.C._Rich

I'll be using my son's Mockingbird on one of the Guitar Tricks Channel episodes soon.