My prototype (how I learned what not to do).

 

#2: Getting strings today.

 

#3; Will be a four string (maybe fretted).

 

 

The box for #4...what's a good string/tuning set-up for 1977 NYC punk?

 

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Those look great, you are well on your way to a full blown addiction!
I really like the sound hole covers. Did you custom make them or are they something you found?

there drain covers yeah ?

eg sink plug holes

 

The box for #4...what's a good string/tuning set-up for 1977 NYC punk?

I'd say C-E-G (C maj.) But you have to choose which 2 strings you want to tune down by 1/4 tone ;-)
First build? Very nice. Enjoy playing her, Keni Lee

Nice first builds you got there. Wish I could find one of those Ramones boxes. Post pics when you get that one done.

X5 tuning for the punk box! (X meaning pick your favorite letter A-G, but probably D or E) Power chords all the way up and down the neck! Haha.

Nice builds.I like your bridge bolt on the first one.

CBG PUNKS UNITE!  Time to lace up the doc's and grab my red suspenders....... Definitley want to hear the ramones box when your done. 

The sound hole covers are brass shower drain covers I picked up at Lowes for a couple bucks each. The other brass one was a laundry sing drain insert. A local hardware store had a bunch of these on the clearance rack for 50 cents apiece.

Here's #3, stung up lefty for my brother-in-law.

 

Not sure what I'm doing with this one (it's on the small side) but as a lifelong Red Sox fan, I was morally obligated to buy the box.

 

GREAT looking builds! Keep up the COOL work!

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