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Pallet Wood Arrow – Extra Large

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When I get a large delivery, it almost always arrives on a pallet. Not one to waste wood, I leave them outside for a few months. After they get cleaned naturally by rain and sun, I can create something with them. This pallet project is a giant wood arrow.

DIY extra large pallet wood arrow

super easy pallet wood arrow

Build a Large Pallet Wood Arrow

I wanted to stain my arrow dark so I went ahead and stained the wood before assembly. Once the planks are joined, it would be more difficult to get stain into all the crannies. So I stained first.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

I wanted 60″ tall and 10″ wide.  Lucky me!  Three planks side by side are about 10″ wide and I had plenty of wood to span the length I wanted.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

Arrange pallet wood planks

After choosing the boards I wanted together, I used painters tape to keep them together. That way I could flip the whole thing over and keep the boards where I wanted them.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

Then I used chalk pencils to mark the wood up with triangles so I could put them back together after separating them to drill my pocket holes.  Light colored chalk pencils show up easily on dark wood and visa versa on light wood.  DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

I used blue and yellow to draw marks to show me how to put the wood back together.  I used green to mark where I wanted to drill pocket holes. DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

Assemble with pocket hole screws

I drilled all my pocket holes with my Porter-Cable pocket hole jig.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

Then I reassembled my arrow and screwed it together.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

Cut angles

I used a rafter square and a chalk pencil to mark the angles on the top of the arrow. DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

Arrow tail

Then I made a tail.  I cut 45º angles on the ends of 4 sized boards creating a longer, continuous angle out of all 4.  I secured them together with pocket screws.  It wasn’t quite right yet so I cut off the outside edges — making sure there were no screws in the path of my blade!DIY Scrap Wood Arrow I also used a jigsaw to cut out the center ending up with what I think looks like the tail of a whale.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

I used it anyway because I didn’t want to start over.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

I sanded the edges before attaching it to the main body of the arrow.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

Then I played around with adding wings to the top angle.  I used cut-offs from the tail and secured them with more pocket screws.

Making a giant pallet wood arrow

DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

I then sanded the whole thing down thinking I’d like the more distressed look.  I decided I did not like the distressed look.DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

So I stained the whole thing again with gel stain — the color being a custom mixture — a custom mixture being a kind of “Sunday casserole” made of a whole bunch of cans of different colors dumped into one.

DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

And then a light coat of black over the top of that.pallet wood project ideas

DIY Scrap Wood Arrow

That’s it ya’ll!

I’ll eventually hang my wood arrow on the wall. But I don’t want to put any holes in the wall until I decide if I’m happy with this whale tail and decide if this is the right spot.Extra large wood arrow - great pallet wood project

Have you made any pallet wood projects?  I’d love to see them.  Tag me on Instagram and show off your pallet projects!

November 25, 2015 · 2 Comments

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  1. Mindi says

    November 25, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    I love it, whale tale and all, and it is perfect for you skinny wall! Seriously fun, I think I need a fun project! 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration and for getting us to use our sCrap!

    Reply
    • Sandra says

      November 27, 2015 at 12:10 pm

      Thank you so much Mindi! I’ve tried to comment on your project post three times now and keep getting kicked over to WP so … Awesome use of your sCrap wood!

      Reply

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