From Pallet to Pot Rack

This is my first Instructable, so be gentle. It amounts to this: at work one fine morning, I was taking a gander at a drywall pallet, that had some mighty fine logs to it. I thought to myself, well golly, I could make something with that! Voila, one evening later, I had a simple potrack. I posted this once on Craftster, but am thinking this may be a better venue for this sort of project.

Any appealing peice of wood will work. I aquired mine from the bottom of a drywall pallet, so the cost was nil. When looking for wood, be sure to keep in mind how much space you have for hanging your pot rack.

It will be important to have the right grain of sandpaper here. I found that if the grain was too fine, it was taking forever. I wanted kind of a rustic look anyway, so for me, I wasn't going for baby-bottom smooth, I was mostly just prepping for the stain. Once you have sanded it down, make sure you wipe it nice and clean with a cloth.

This is the easy part. I wiped on the stain with the leg from an old pair of sweatpants. I also discovered that stain does not go bad - this can was at least 25 years old, and I found it in my basement.

A simple can of spray finish (apply it in quick strokes, or you'll end up with hard, dried up droplets if it runs) makes the log all purty-shiney-like. Yeehaw!

Add hooks to your log, as well a couple of chains, and you are ready to hang your new pot rack. I spent about $16 on hooks and chain, but if you are lucky, you don't live in the middle of nowhere like I do and can get them for less.

That's it. Any comments on how to improve this Instructable are greatly appreciated.