[quote=Guitarsan;250876]Ah, but I'm curious, at a minimum how old must it be, since the truss cover says "Elitist" rather than "Gibson", as they currently do?[/QUOTE
I could be wrong but I had thought the current ones have Elitist on the truss cover and Gibson was dropped

a guess 04-05 ? Diceman would know! If you ask the guy for the serial you will know forsure.