How it started...

This whole Cajon thing started last summer.

My wife and I were at a garden party in Nanaimo, being entertained by very a talented muscial duo who played guitar, trumpet and sang. 
During the performance, the singer was sitting on this box-thingy and tapping away and generally having a great time keeping the beat.  

The box looked very exotic, with inlay and a beautiful finish, but most of all it sounded great.
Never in my life having seen one before, I was instantly intrigued. And it all looked so easy.

I've been drumming my hands on my thighs, on my desk at work, on old boxes, the top of my guitar to different beats bouncing around in my head but this looked so cool.
Describing this instrument to a friend who plays bass in our jam group, she told me it was a cajon. 

I thought a cajon would be the perfect addition to our Monday Night Jam and there an then, I decided I would build my own. 

I am absolutely not a wood-worker, a craftsman, not even a handyman or DIY guy, I hammer nails in crooked and strip the heads of screws as I sweat to install Chinese-made shelves, but surely making a cajon would be easy..its really just a box, right?   How hard could it be to slap some wood together and glue it?

Well, this blog will reveal the fun, the trials, the frustrations and hopefully wonderful beats and rhythms from the final "box".