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Review on πŸͺ‘ 24-Inch Linon Natural Barstool: Enhance Your Space with a Stylish Round Seat by Diane Beachem

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Great stool, poor quality control

Just received this stool today, it was well packaged, took it out of the box and was ready to go. I will not bore you with the process, the stool itself is beautiful and strong, made of pleasant wood, holds tight, does not stagger, there are no problems with it at the moment. My problem is related to quality control. First, I repeat, don't use the Allen key provided unless you want to use a colorful tongue when reassembling. The wrench is smaller than the bolt hole so much so that it falls out with every turn making your 1 minute tightening almost 3 minutes now multiply that by 4 and you have a wonderful 24 minutes of hex key wrestling but that's not all , eat more! The 4 spacers or "leg braces" (as it's called in the "want to be" manual) aren't big enough so trying to hook the bolts to tighten them is an ordeal, which is made worse by the Allen wrench falling out of the screw because it's the wrong size, and because you're having so much fun with your words, you find that every time the Allen wrench falls out, it rips the screw off so easily that , when you get to the very end, you can't tighten it because the edges of the screw are now slightly rounded and you realize there's no point in trying. Note that it was only the first screw, you have 7 more, but wait, as an added bonus, they give you screw caps (or as they say wooden dowels), so now you have to try to put those wooden dowels in the screw holes to to give it a finished look The first one pops out and isn't fixed anymore so you go back and press it again, this time it sticks to your finger and finally comes out with a more colorful tongue after you've made up your mind after all the frustrations the first one not to get in a hammer, nowhere do the instructions say you need a hammer (ah wait that's right, no words, it's just pictures because it's so easy), now that you've got your trusty hammer, or better yet, you don't want to ruin the finish, so take a rubber mallet and start pounding it, tapping it lightly and it keeps popping out so you finally hit it hard enough and good gen only to see it went too far and now you messed up the head of 8 plugs because the impact is gone now and the plug is so far away you can't fix the bar stool when anything ever happens to him as you can't get the plugs out without destroying the stool. But when all is said and done, when you have conquered all annoyances, the stool is beautiful, durable and well made.

Pros
  • Excellent construction
Cons
  • Crumpled packaging