![]() ![]() ![]() The Elitists have the historically correct 16th fret join. This guitar was crafted in Japan with premium woods, beautiful Sunburst finish, fitted. 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. The Elite Series are instruments that approach custom shop perfection. The Matsumoku ones don't like like nitro but they've aged gracefully. ![]() Granted, I wanted the whole raunchy 'Lennon-thing' which the 68 dished out in spades. I only bought the Elitist because I wanted a short neck Casino. The former was like a toy compared to the 1968. I owned a Elitist Casino at the same time I owned a long-neck 1968 Casino. 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. Ill answer your question from another perspective. 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! I've owned a pre-Elitist Tereda Casino from the mid 90s and played several others. Its pretty close to the current Elitist Casino, but with a nitro finish and Derlin nut and saddles. ![]()
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