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This four-tin pie safe was just completed as a practice piece before building a six-tin for the wife's nephew and his wife in Pennsylvania. I didn't even know what a pie safe was until Charles did his pie safe build. It is an Eastern thing, you know. They are collected new and old. It is of White Oak primarily plus some ash and pine inside and back (for flavour). The drawer pulls are original 1850-ish. Non-urathane oil finish. Ready to start on one in Walnut for them. Thanks for looking…......... PS, The tins are actually copper and were stripped of their lacquer and patina applied with Potash-Sulferated. Lacquer was removed by boiling the copper in a solution of baking soda and water…............;-J

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Cool, made me go and look it up out of curiosity. So how many pies does this hold? (laughing)
 

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Great job, love how you did the copper tins. I will def try that on some copper tins that we will be putting in our kitchen cabinets. Looks great, Hoss
 

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Well done, Looks great… I'm like you, I just recently learined what they were from seeing them on here. Great job…
 

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Looks good the only other detail you might want to add is a sawtooth shelf adjusting system
 

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Right dannelson, think l'll be doing that on the taller one. J
 

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Hi:
It looks like it turned out looking great. The East Coast and South have a bunch of old pieces that are fun to build, including desk, Doe Boxes, potting Chairs (For children), Sugar Chest and many more. All are fun to build. One of my favorites is the Six panel Pie Safe with the drawer at the bottom and a hidden compartment in the top.
 

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Anything to do with pie and pie related projects are ace's in my book. Well done! That is a very nice practice piece.
 
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