Three years ago – virtually to the day – we were chatting to Seth Baccus for our review on a superb £4k Nautilus Classic. To say we were impressed with his craft is an understatement. To be fair, Seth had shipped his first custom-order guitar a decade earlier after 12 years in retail at Mansons Guitar Shop, with eight as the manager, and had built his first guitar in 2004. He’d also been an on-the-road tech for the likes of John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin’s reunion and local megastars Muse. Back then he was making around 20 instruments a year with an approximate build-time of nine months.
Shortly after that, like many sole custom-guitar makers, he reached a crossroads. “I was turning away
