KB Baruke

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penguin
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KB Baruke

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After a year of secret design, development and build along with countless emails, the Ken Bebensee Baruke left handed five string fretless semi hollow body uke bass is finally complete. The name comes from Ken's original body design called the Baroque, traced and shrunk down from 35.25" scale to 23" scale uke bass size, thus Baruke.

Neck laminates - Red heart, purple heart, wenge.

Body woods - Mahogany, walnut.

Top woods - Spalted myrtle with purple heart pinstripe.

Headstock - Spalted myrtle, ebony with carbon fiber reinforcement layer.

Fingerboard, bridge, knobs and truss rod cover - Macassar ebony.

Side dots & headstock logo - Abalone.

Knob dots - Mother-of-pearl.

Saddle & nut - Unbleached bone.

Active Electronics - Open-to-Source Sensors™ piezo pickup with Audere Classic 3-band EQ preamp. 9v.

Hardware - Hipshot Ultralight tuners. Dunlop Straploks.

Strings - Road Toad Pahoehoe.

Scale length - 23"

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Wow, that looks stunning! Crazy specs, beautifully made, and truly a shrunk-down ultra high end bass! I love it 8-)
I really like the Pelicase-style hardcase too!
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That is a crazy cool bass. Absolutely gorgeous woods and craftsmanship.
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Beautiful. Where else did I see this the other day? On a FB lefty group? Anyway, I love it!
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Looks Great! Precision Work, any chance you could post some sound clips?

Something that unique must have some cool sounds.
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Wow that is unique and very cool. Congrats.
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Looks amazing! Next tell us about that GR cab...:D
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Man, that looks great!
Gilmourisgod wrote:I never really "got" what a Rick is capable of until I ran it stereo a few times in my college band. We used to call it the "Piano of Doom". You get all the bottom and all the top in total a**kicking mode.
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Stingray5 wrote:Looks amazing! Next tell us about that GR cab...:D
Yep- bass looks amazing and I too am intrigued by the cab :mrgreen:
In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful...
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Stingray5 wrote:Looks amazing! Next tell us about that GR cab...:D
GR Bass Aerotech 212slim cabinet, 900 watts @ 4 ohms. Made in Italy, kind of hard to get now with pandemic. I had to wait 5 months. 28.5 pounds. Nice trebly bite and wide open bottom compared to my old Markbass 2x12 combo stack.

Here some quick tracks I did. I am still dialing in the sound and getting used to the fat low B string.

https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/ozzy-mp3.4084173/

https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/so ... 3.4084381/

https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/kc ... 3.4085460/

https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/li ... 3.4085568/
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You Got It!!!!
Finally.. nice Randy. Congrats. I wanna see this next time I visit LA. I might be down there in Jan.
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A remarkable looking bass!
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Easily the nicest uke bass I've ever seen!
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