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Lowden is also in the UK. They sound lovely too.
At last years guitar show in Birmingham, I played a Turnstone which really did it for me.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/125932/turnstone-at-the-guitar-show-2018#latest
I'd love something like that one day...
Tom Waghorn in Bristol is another option. He’s such a nice guy. I tried on of his older builds, 10 years old I think. Spruce and walnut and it was superb.
never have I tried an Atkin but who’s heard a bad thing about them? Nobody
the Fourty Three looks incredible
Do you know the price point?
Prices above your limit, but worth checking pre-owned - unless your specs are very unusual.
Think I last saw one on Acoustic Soundboard.
https://www.taranguitars.co.uk/
If I ever win the lottery, this is what I’ll buy (plus a feline lion cub).
I've had had instruments from all of those and three Fyldes over the years; only contest is price - Fyldes can be picked up pretty cheap relative to that lot. Don't get me wrong, Fylde are good guitars but "finest made guitars in the UK"?
At the OPs max of 3K, I'd go looking used; it's a buyers market out there at the moment. If you're lucky, 3K will land you a sole luthier guitar that will blow away most from the small shop makers. I sold a Forster on here for just 1.5k last year (Nigel's gone to Australia so not "UK based" anymore), and a Taran for 2.5K a few years ago.