Nice stools, but wooden surfaces arrived with lots of scratches on them
This is a decent, and decent-looking, pair of bar stools. The stools have simple, circular seats – with fairly deep wooden tops on thick plastic lowers. Assembly is pretty straightforward, as there are only 8 pieces to each stool: 4 main body sections, and 4 screws. The allen key needed to affix the screws to the underside of each seat top is included.
The stools are pretty good, but not exemplary. The gas lifts move easily and effectively, and the stools themselves feel quite nice and sturdy – with sturdy metal bases and quite solid plastic/wooden tops. However the wooden surfaces for both of the stools I received had significant numbers of scrapes and scratches on them. The scratches had been incurred after the wood was stained, as they had gone through the surface and showed up as lighter than the surrounding areas. This is quite poor in furniture where the wood is a feature point. The wood is wide-grained and quite textured with a little roughness and small cracks apparent in some places on the surfaces. Not awful, by any means, but not ideal.
Im debating between sanding these down a little and re-treating the surfaces; or just giving them a good polish on the basis that theyre likely to mark quite easily, but a lightly tinted polishing wax will even out the colour of the marks and should help to condition wood that seems really quite dry.
Nice stools, but wooden surfaces arrived with lots of scratches on them
This is a decent, and decent-looking, pair of bar stools. The stools have simple, circular seats – with fairly deep wooden tops on thick plastic lowers. Assembly is pretty straightforward, as there are only 8 pieces to each stool: 4 main body sections, and 4 screws. The allen key needed to affix the screws to the underside of each seat top is included. The stools are pretty good, but not exemplary. The gas lifts move easily and effectively, and the stools themselves feel quite nice and sturdy – with sturdy metal bases and quite solid plastic/wooden tops. However the wooden surfaces for both of the stools I received had significant numbers of scrapes and scratches on them. The scratches had been incurred after the wood was stained, as they had gone through the surface and showed up as lighter than the surrounding areas. This is quite poor in furniture where the wood is a feature point. The wood is wide-grained and quite textured with a little roughness and small cracks apparent in some places on the surfaces. Not awful, by any means, but not ideal. Im debating between sanding these down a little and re-treating the surfaces; or just giving them a good polish on the basis that theyre likely to mark quite easily, but a lightly tinted polishing wax will even out the colour of the marks and should help to condition wood that seems really quite dry.