I snapped a quick picture of the neck joint on my Epi Elitist the other day while I was changing strings. It has the vintage correct "long neck tenon" joint - something that Gibson did away with in 1969 in order to save money. Terrible! Anyways, these are only found on Gibson's $3.5k+ Historic models - and on the Epiphone Elitists (as well as a number of other MIJ Les Pauls).