Review on 🖤 Black OFM Avenger Series Big and Tall Bonded Leather Executive Office Chair by Tabu Little

[LAST UPDATE 2020] After almost 7 years this chair is finished. I dealt with the peeling "leather" by reupholstering the entire chair, but the final nail in the coffin was the bolts holding the armrests (and therefore the base and backrest) together completely cut off on one side. You have to tighten the bolts when they loosen, but turns out they don't loosen, they stretch. Now I'll have to see if I can get the sheared bolts out, but it looks like this chair is now going to the landfill. . Simply put, I'm reducing my rating to 2 stars. Overall the chair was great, the strength is there and seems to be holding up well. Every few months, the arms will begin to loosen up, so a slight tug will bring them back to normal. Reason for downgrade? The material begins to peel off. To clarify, "bonded” leather is basically finely chopped (crumbs) of leather scraps that are mixed with glue, smeared onto a sheet, and then applied to it with a thin leather-grain effect vinyl coating. In exposed areas, the leather crumbs will fall off like crumbs in a dry cake and the vinyl will peel off and you won't be able to put it back on. It turned out to be a very poor quality material as I have many vinyl based materials that hold up much better than this. In general, do not subject leather or other materials to more friction than a normal cotton shirt/trousers. The vinyl layer is too thin and the binding too weak to support anything else. I've also read that some owners have been given faux leather vinyl instead of glued leather. I'll try to fix it with plasti dip vinyl but for those who want a chair that lasts 5-10 years this isn't it. This thing is a monster. It's not just about the size, it's also about the build quality of the frame. If you could steroid feed your bowel movements, you would have them. This chair was designed for the horizontally gifted, but can also be used by ordinary people. Advantages: - Foundation. It is a one piece cast steel at least 1/4 inch thick with vertical cross member supports. No welds, thing is solid. Roll. Ordinary things but very thick, they don't look like gas lift junk. I can't judge his long term work but it feels like he's heavy. It falls into a central hole in the base and is held in place by gravity. Sturdy metal frame around the perimeter, all studs are screwed into the metal. Fasteners are welded to the frame, there is no flimsy wood. - Pillow. Very very thick, I can't reach the bottom of the seat pad. Huge lumbar support. - armrests. steel steel. Did I say that? is a tank? Solid steel 3/4" cross braces! If you have a home invasion while assembling this chair, I'd reach for a headbutt gun. I think that's a very good thing because you never have that awful moment between relaxing and forgetting it's bad : - uh. no lumbar adjustment? - no other gear downstairs to fiddle with? - no tilt, although this was obviously done for strength reasons Skin: - 100% vinyl Somewhere, even on the OFM website, it says that it's leather, although it's not much better anyway. Hopefully given the cost of the chair it will last a while - arm pad specs say 1 inch of padding, my arms say it could be 1/2" and the bottom half is mounting hardware Limited adjustments All you receive height adjustment, recline tension and anti-tip. That's all. The vinyl smells funny out of the box - Not quite high backrest. It goes up to about at the base of my neck. The tilt is ok although I was hoping for a little more height it was actually quite difficult to assemble... The parts of the seat are so heavy and the screw holes have to line up perfectly which the seat didn't forgive if you try to put them together. Are you bad enough to assemble it yourself? - I said it was hard. ?