I don't want to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading but I was thinking maybe a TonePro bridge. My other issue is that I have some buzzing that comes and goes and I am almost certain it is the #$!~&*^ bridge that has that ?':+|&% pice of wire on it. I am still getting used to that and am wordering if others have felt the same way and eventually came to like the narrow string spacing in first few frets. The first thing is that the nut is so narrow (1.638 to be exact). I love the Casino and will probably keep it but I have 2 issues I would appreciate feedback on. I failed to mention that I am rapidly approaching 'Old Fartdom' and when I play out ,it never involves heavy distortion and is usually with my Taylor acoustic. and my Elitist SG 61 reissur), even though humbuckers might be abetter all around pickup choice. It was about if you could only have one guitar and the choice was between a Casino or a Dot, which would you go for? Well I went with the Casino (but will probaly still keep my Gibson Les Paul Jr.

The Elitists have the historically correct 16th fret join.A while back I posted my first question on this froum. 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 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. 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.

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