The Elitists have the historically correct 16th fret join. 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 Casino has been around for decades, first brought to worldwide fame by the Beatles. The Matsumoku ones don't like like nitro but they've aged gracefully. PROS: Great fit and finish fantastic neck highly responsive and articulate P90 pickups.
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.
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.
