Welcome Sign From Reclaimed Lumber

We needed a welcome sign at the house to spruce things up a little bit. So, of coarse, can't do a run of the mill Hobby lobby rustic sign. But, they have some cool ideas. So I compromised and made one kind of like theirs. It's made mostly of reclaimed materials. Except some 1 1/4" roofing nails and trim nails. The reclaimed lumber is some yellow rough cut pine from pallets that is 1 1/4" X 3 1/4". And the trim is made from some 1 1/4" yellow pine that a rabbitted on the table saw and mitered on the chop saw.

This pallet wood has been outside in the weather for a couple months. I thought it would look good without running through the planner and looking bright and clean. I actually used the 45 on one side and perpendicular on the other. originally 7" long.

After cutting up the pieces, I layed some 1/2" plywood on top of, then nailed them up with 1 1/4" roofing nails.

I'm not much on free hand painting. So I cut out some vinyl and used it as a reverse template. Painted with white satin then removed the vinyl.

This is just some spruce that is rabbitted and mitered for hiding the ugly edges.

Couple shots of white satin and voila.