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Build Your Own Cajón Drum Woodworking Newsletter Vol. 7
Issue 2 - November 2012 1/5 www.leevalley.com Cajón is a Spanish word meaning large box. The origin of the cajón drum can be traced to Peru
most likely during the late 18th or early 19th century.
How to Build a Cajon Drum Like a Pro February 7
2015 By Paul Mayer & filed under More Woodworking Projects
Plans and Projects
Woodworking Projects . Cajon drums produce a professional percussion sound and are easy to build in a typical hobbyist woodworking shop.
February: Original Cajon. On a bit of a whim
I decided to build a Cajon.. A Cajon-- spanish for box/crate/drawer -- is a box-shaped percussion instrument
originally from Peru.You play it by sitting on it and tapping on the front in different places. If you check …
Indeed a solid wood face will give better sound. A source for this if you are a scrounger is an old clothes dresser. The bottoms of really old drawers are often solid wood about a quarter in thick and not plywood.
I made a batch of 5 solid wood box jointed cajon drums (wood box peruan drums). I outsourced the finish to a local finisher
and he did the final sanding and the finish (2 coats
30% gloss). considering my very small shop and that it is inside my house
that was a life saver for me. and above all ...
The Snare Cajon. A great cajon with a wide range of sounds. The double 20 strand snares give this cajon a fantastic sizzle at the top end. The dense 12mm ply gives the cajon a deep and rounded bass tone and the 4mm acrylic front gives a lively
crisp sizzle.
Solid wood boxes (not ply wood) with 4 or 5 sides can be glued or screwed together with no internal support. Ply wood boxes and thin solid timber boxes ( say timber less than 1/2 thick) will need an internal frame to strengthen the box."
Cajon builder Michael Kotzen weighs in on the issue of solid-wood tapas: I’ve built quite a few solid tapas from both spruce & figured maple. They are a bit fragile"
best used for studio use. They are a bit fragile
best used for studio use.
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