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Shore Thing

SETH BACCUS SHORELINE JM-H90 £3,399

CONTACT Seth Baccus Guitars EMAIL seth@sethbaccus.com WEB https://sethbaccus.com

What You Need To Know

1 Haven’t we seen this before?

The bolt-on Seth Baccus Shoreline T guitar first appeared in 2012 along with his set-neck design, which became the Nautilus. “I took the first of each to the Mansons Guitar Show that year,” he remembers. “It was the first of the Shoreline models, then I slightly revamped it with a more traditional Tele-inspired scratchplate and style in 2018.” The Shoreline JM, on which our review model is based, followed in 2019 and the S version later in 2020.

2 So, what’s different here?

Up to this point Seth has only produced guitars built by himself (latterly with one assistant), which means there’s a limit to the number he can physically make each year. While he’ll continue to do those bespoke builds, he’s now expanding his output with instruments crafted by UK Guitar Builders (UKGB) based in York,

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