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"
