I would like to share with you this wooden clock I made for a friend, using wood from an old pallet.

Hope you like it!

Step 1: What You Will Need

wide pallet plank
nails
white wood glue
hammer
wood carving knife
clock mechanism
pyrograver
electric sander
electric jigsaw
compass
wax
cloth

Step 2: Cutting the Wood and Assembling the Clock

I had a very dirty and old wide plank from a pallet,so I started of by sanding it until it was clean If your plank isn´t very dirty you can leave the sanding for later)
Draw two semi circles with a compass and cut them with the electric jigsaw.
Then cut from the same board two pieces of wood with enough length to join the two semi circles together. Apply white wood glue and nails to do this.
Now you have a circle. Mark the center and drill a hole.

If the shaft of your clock mechanism is long enough, you would be done at this point. The shaft of mine was short, so I had to patiently carve space on the back of the clock to place in the mechanism.

Step 3: Pyrograving the Design

If you haven´t already sanding your wood, you must do so now before proceeding.

The surface of the clock face should be nice and smooth.

With a pencil, free hand draw the tree or if you can´t to this, use carbon paper to trace your design. I used a yin yang tree I found here, as it was free for non commercial use.

Then start pyrograving (this will take some patience and time), but will turn out really nice.