How To Make A Pallet Clock

This has been on the "TO DO LIST in my head" for quite sometime now!  I am so excited to have finally finished it!

When I made the potting table out of pallets for my mother-in-law, I used an old pallet and it took some effort to take apart, but not near as much effort as these ones.  After I pulled off the first couple boards, I decided that it would be fine if I lost an inch or a little more off each end.  So I got out the circular saw and just cut them off at the end to save 2/3 of the nails I had to pull out.

It was still A LOT of effort but I had a good helper ;)

After I cut the sides off.  I just wiggled them back and forth as much as I could to loosen them, and then I used the pry bar to take them off.

After I got all of my boards pulled off, I laid them all next to each other.  I used two pallets and they were a little different so I put them every other one so that the similar boards were not right next to each other.  Then I found my center and marked it with an "x".

I put a pin in my "x", tied a piece of yarn to it and a pencil on the other end. I used that to draw my circle.

Then my willing assistant (aka my husband who gets dragged into all my projects like it or not) helped me cut each board with the scroll saw.  He has much more steady hands then me.

We laid out all the boards and used a 1x2 board to put them together.

I just used a finish nailer to put the 1x2 on.

I drilled the hole for the clock at the "x" I had already marked in thr center.

The clock that I had was for a 1/4" face and my pallet boards were 3/4" thick.  

For my birthday my husband gave me a router.  You know you are truly "2 Crafty 4 Your Skirt"  when you are excited if your husband gives you tools for your birthday!  This was the first time we got to use it! And it worked GREAT!

I traced my clock mechanism on the back, and then we cut it down to the depth we needed. We did it on a test piece of wood first to make sure we had it set at the right depth. We used a plunge bit for this.

I used the sander to sand down the face and the edges.

I spray painted it with Rustoleum Heirloom White.  I wanted the boards to kind of show through so I didn't prime it.  And it took two coats to get the color I wanted.

I cut my stencils out with the Cricut like I have lately for my signs.

I used acrylic paint. I started with the 3,6,9, and 12.

I was worried that the numbers in-between wouldn't fit so I traced my stencils onto paper to see.  They fit but were very tight.  I emailed my crafty sister-in-law to get her opinion.  Should I squish the numbers in? Do them in a smaller font? Or just do dots for them?

She said dots. So that's what I did! The next one I make I am just going to use smaller numbers all they way around, but I kind of like it like this too.  I used an "i" in one of my other signs, so I just used the dot from that stencil.

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