Cajon bodies are made from the hardwoods such as beech and birch wood and marine plywood is most commonly used wood for very strong, resistant to splitting and cracking with resonant drums. The beach and birch both woods having an excellent sound properties and they are highly durable.
The British material has a higher density wood, renowned for its broad dynamic range music and to producing cracking high tones with a deep punchy bass tone. But the birch material considerably more expensive compared to all other materials.
Beech is a strong wood material for Cajon for producing a wide range of tones and some of the manufactures are use the mahogany or mahogany-type hardwoods which are simply stored in bass tones and to give any good cracking with high tones.
Oak material is very hard in nature and it is renowned for its high volume and sometimes you can find its own way into the Cajon manufacture. The Cajon drum is usually used as a solid timber rather than in a ply construction, whatever it is oak is also a brittle wood which is prone to cracking on the impact of sound effect.
The tapa or front face of the Cajon drum gets more importance from prospective buyers than any other part which is probably due to it is the bit which the audience will see the sound performance. The basic design, color or appearance of the tapa face or logo brand it carries are widely irrelevant with they are normally only one veneer deep.
