The second cajon I made lead to an unexpected event. As far as the drum goes, I made it way better than the first one and it was the first one I made with nice materials (good plywood, not the cheap stuff from Lowe's) and stained the tapa really nice. It had an amazing crisp snare sound and a deep resonant bass as well.
I was so happy with the way it turned, out, I had this crazy idea to take it down to Guitar Center and talk to the sales folks to see if there was any remote chance they would sell one in the store every now and then (I don't think they can do that but I just wanted to try).
I got there and started trying out the cajones they had on display hoping a salesman would come talk to me and I could bring up why I was there. No salesman ever came. Finally, a couple guys came in looking at the cajones and trying them out. I started talking with them and about playing the cajon. It came out that I had just made a couple and was trying to sell them. I told them I thought it sounded pretty good, even compared to the ones in the store and that they should come try it out in the parking lot (I think this is called poaching or something but I didn't intend to do it...).
They tried it out and went back in to look at the others and think about it. Then they came and decided to buy mine. VAHOO! I was stoked.
The sad part... I never got a picture of it or a recording because I wasn't planning on selling it right then.
The guys who bought it do street evangelism by playing positive music in downtown Boise during the warm months so you might just see it down there sometime.
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