Have you seen my vehicle? Not much room for anything else on the roof?  That’s what I thought as well.  But you and me both would be mistaken.   Robi from Dinosaur showed me a great little table one night over beers.  Guess what I learned? Yup, he straps it to the underside of the bars!  How perfect is that?

I used 3/4" CDX plywood (I’m sure marine grade plywood would be better but this is what I had) with maple trim.   The final dimensions were 18.5" x 52" and about 35" high.  I used 1/2 black pipe for the legs, again because it was on hand.  Depending on how the legs hold up I might go with aluminum pipe later and possibly mill slots in the legs, which would allow me to strap them to the table.

After creating an 1/8" hardboard template for the hand holds, trace the template onto the plywood and rough the hole out with a saber saw.  Then route the template with a top-bearing flush trim bit.

Route a round over on the inside of the handles

The original design was almost 6 feet. I cut it down to just over 4 after seeing how unwieldy it was.

3/8" Maple trim was added with waterproof glue

Plane trim flush

1/2" Pipe flanges were added with 3/4" drywall screws. These were later sandblasted and painted with an outdoor spray paint.

Legs were cut to length on the power hacksaw.  I should have taken a video because it’s just plain fun to watch this machine work.

Table was finished with 1 coat of primer and 2 coats of acrylic latex outdoor trim paint