First of all, 2 volume 2 tone is a great setup and anyone who get's confused needs to spend about 10 minutes more with a Les Paul (notice I didn't question whether anybody liked it, but spoke specifically about the confusion that the CMG website talks about).
From the CMG website "The Ashlee US is designed with "only what you need". You know, you just don't need two volume knobs and two tone knobs. That might have been a good idea for yesteryear, but let's face it–we've evolved as guitarists. I can't tell you how many times I've turned the wrong volume knob up and thought to myself: 'Why is this even here?'"
I may not need 2 volume and 2 tone knobs but I sure as hell like having them. One trick I like to do is to roll the neck tone knob off completely off and play that through a fuzz pedal for a classic analogue synth sound, and then be able to switch to the bridge pickup for a total rock rhythm. You can't make that switch quick enough with only a 1 vol 1 tone setup.
Second of all, looking at the pictures on the My Les Paul thread, I think that the bodies and necks are made in Asia and then CMG buys them and puts them together. Specifically, looking at the control cavities, there is enough space in the CMG guitars for 2 volume 2 tone, when the website specifically states that they only do 1 vol 1 tone controls. If the bodies and necks were build in America by CMG, why would they rout more wood out of the body than what needed to be routed for the basic controls that they put in there? So this company that is claiming MIA, is only assembled in America. Nothing wrong with either, but don't label it as one when it's clearly the other.
Last, but not least, I would like to point out that he calls his company CMG which according to his website stands for Chris Mitchell Guitars and then he puts CMG Guitars on the top of his site, which is redundant. It's like saying "ATM Machine". The "M" in ATM stands for "Machine" so you're basically saying "Automated Teller Machine Machine." I would like for him to fix this.
