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KB Baruke
Posted: December 10th, 2020, 8:19 pm
by penguin
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"
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 3:06 am
by Jeroen
Wow, that looks stunning! Crazy specs, beautifully made, and truly a shrunk-down ultra high end bass! I love it
I really like the Pelicase-style hardcase too!
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 7:01 am
by tim
That is a crazy cool bass. Absolutely gorgeous woods and craftsmanship.
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 7:25 am
by Matt R.
Beautiful. Where else did I see this the other day? On a FB lefty group? Anyway, I love it!
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 7:28 am
by bobjones2260
Looks Great! Precision Work, any chance you could post some sound clips?
Something that unique must have some cool sounds.
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 9:16 am
by bhunt1
Wow that is unique and very cool. Congrats.
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 9:16 am
by Stingray5
Looks amazing! Next tell us about that GR cab...
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 11:56 am
by superheavydeathmetal
Man, that looks great!
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 3:33 pm
by NoXX
Stingray5 wrote:Looks amazing! Next tell us about that GR cab...
Yep- bass looks amazing and I too am intrigued by the cab
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 5:47 pm
by penguin
Stingray5 wrote:Looks amazing! Next tell us about that GR cab...
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/
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 11th, 2020, 7:46 pm
by gravesbass
You Got It!!!!
Finally.. nice Randy. Congrats. I wanna see this next time I visit LA. I might be down there in Jan.
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 13th, 2020, 12:57 am
by fivebass52
A remarkable looking bass!
Re: KB Baruke
Posted: December 13th, 2020, 4:42 pm
by donahue
Easily the nicest uke bass I've ever seen!