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Patio Table

DaveL

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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:
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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.
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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.
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I them fitted the leg frames together and made a mistake with the hinge placement:
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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.
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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.
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The table has been given a coat of Teak garden furniture oil.
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And here is the table folded down.
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That is Skye, our new samoyed, he oversaw the whole build with an interested eye.

This was made in August but I have been a bit busy so its a late posting, sorry.
 
Looks very good Dave :eusa-clap:

Those Veritas dowel cutters are very handy, I’ve just cut quite a few metres of dowel with one
 
Lovely table Dave, having it fold like that so you can tuck it away in the winter is a terrific idea.

I never realised that you were ex ICL/Fujitsu. I spent 25 years with ICL in its many guises before I “left” in 2007.
 
I like that. Very neat, and I suspect rather more work than the write up implies. Hope we get some good weather next summer to thoroughly test it out. :obscene-drinkingbuddies:
 
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