My niece was over at our house with her dad a few weeks back and saw the pie safe that I had built for my wife. She ask me where I had bought it and my wife told her I had built it. She asked if I could build her one. That's when her dad jumped in the conversation and offered to go secure some wormy chestnut from a friend of his that lives in the mountains. The chestnut was about 100 years old and in very poor condition. I ended up scrapping most of it and barely had enough to finish it. Long story short, since my niece was married about 6 months ago, I offered to build it for her as another wedding present. Here is the results. Punching the tin took about as long as building the case. She wanted it finished natural.
