The Elitists have the historically correct 16th fret join. It was a great guitar, but it felt so light and the hardware and pups needs to be replaced. There were two neck joins in use on MIJ Casinos - traditionally Casinos had the neck join at the 16th fret (with a handful of late examples having a 335 style join at the 19th fret, although sales of Casinos were declining dramatically by the time the change was introduced so they're much rarer than 19 fret ES330s) the pre-Elitist Tereda Casinos and some of the Matsumokus tend to join at the 17th fret as do the Korean versions. I used to have the cheaper Korean version. The Matsumoku ones don't like like nitro but they've aged gracefully. The only nitro guitars I've seen from Tereda were built in the white and spipped to the US for finish and assembly - those are nice instruments but they're by far the most expensive Casinos after the Kalamazoo originals. This model is frequently confused for the limited run '65 Elitist Casino and can be differ. The one I owned was a nice guitar with the smallest neck I've ever come across - I sold it to move up to a '69 ES 330, which was probably the first time in history anyone's bought a late 60s Gibson because they needed something with a larger neck! The Epiphone Elitist Casino features a single piece slim taper 'D' profile mahogany neck, traditional headstock with no inlay, 'Elite' or 'Elitist' on the truss rod cover and parallelogram fretboard inlays. I've owned a pre-Elitist Tereda Casino from the mid 90s and played several others.
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