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penguin
 Post subject: KB Baruke
PostPosted: December 10th, 2020, 8:19 pm 
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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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Jeroen
 Post subject: Re: KB Baruke
PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 3:06 am 
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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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 Post subject: Re: KB Baruke
PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 7:01 am 
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That is a crazy cool bass. Absolutely gorgeous woods and craftsmanship.
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 Post subject: Re: KB Baruke
PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 7:25 am 
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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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 Post subject: Re: KB Baruke
PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 7:28 am 
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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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PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 9:16 am 
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Wow that is unique and very cool. Congrats.
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 Post subject: Re: KB Baruke
PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 9:16 am 
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Looks amazing! Next tell us about that GR cab...:D
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PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 11:56 am 
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Man, that looks great!

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PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 3:33 pm 
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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:

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 Post subject: Re: KB Baruke
PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 5:47 pm 
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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/socoros-mp3.4084381/

https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/kcatsb-mp3.4085460/

https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/lifes-been-good-mp3.4085568/
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PostPosted: December 11th, 2020, 7:46 pm 
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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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PostPosted: December 13th, 2020, 12:57 am 
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A remarkable looking bass!

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 Post subject: Re: KB Baruke
PostPosted: December 13th, 2020, 4:42 pm 
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Easily the nicest uke bass I've ever seen!
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