I bought a new parasol, the base for it was not very stable so a patio table with a hole for the parasol to stand in. I looked at lots of different ones online, the one I found on the B and Q site:
I did look at buying one but the details just said it was made of wood, not any sort of wood, just wood. So I set about drawing out some plans to make on that was similar, and made from Iroko.
I did have a session with DaveR on using Sketchup, some time ago, I have the downloads that Dave did for Fine woodworking. I failed to draw all of the details and that did bite me on a couple of things.
I visited Thorogoods and bought a selection of sawn Iroko. I spent some time sawing and planing this into boards for the table. I made the leg frames with mortise and tenon joints, I decided to peg the joints so made some dowels using the off cuts cut from the leg frame.
I them fitted the leg frames together and made a mistake with the hinge placement:
When I got the top wings made they would not of folded down flat against the centre frame, the hinge barrels stopped that happening.
I made the edge frames for the top wings and decided that I would not cut all of the slats for the top down to narrow widths, here #i am glueing the slats into the frame for one side.
With the top on the bench I fitted the leg frame on and made some little ramps for the legs to lock into when in the open position.