I've been assembling a lot of furniture lately, following a recent move, and this is absolutely the worst. I won't be ordering from Choo Choo ever again.
LONG ASSEMBLY. The assembly is horrible long Expect 3-4 hours of tightening endless cam locks and screws. There's pretty much nothing pre-assembled on this table. The other downside of this is that you're assembling from such small components that any imperfection is going to multiply as you build up (and sadly some of those imperfections come from the item's manufacture).
POOR QC. The quality control of the bits is poor. The biggest problem is the screw holes, which are consistently off by 1/32 or 1/64 of an inch. It might not seem like a lot, but when you're attaching a slide or glider to three different screw holes, it's going to matter when they don't line up with the bits right (and out of eight such connections, all eight were off enough to matter). Getting the drawers to assemble correctly was also challenging because of minute mistakes in the hole drilling.
POOR MANUFACTURE. Finally, the wood all appears to be pressed, with just a faint veneer of black on it. That veneer chips easily, living livid white spots in your brand-new furniture.
I only felt like the price of this was slightly cheap, but the production was very much so.
Poor Manufacture, Poor QC, Very Long Assembly
I've been assembling a lot of furniture lately, following a recent move, and this is absolutely the worst. I won't be ordering from Choo Choo ever again. LONG ASSEMBLY. The assembly is horrible long Expect 3-4 hours of tightening endless cam locks and screws. There's pretty much nothing pre-assembled on this table. The other downside of this is that you're assembling from such small components that any imperfection is going to multiply as you build up (and sadly some of those imperfections come from the item's manufacture). POOR QC. The quality control of the bits is poor. The biggest problem is the screw holes, which are consistently off by 1/32 or 1/64 of an inch. It might not seem like a lot, but when you're attaching a slide or glider to three different screw holes, it's going to matter when they don't line up with the bits right (and out of eight such connections, all eight were off enough to matter). Getting the drawers to assemble correctly was also challenging because of minute mistakes in the hole drilling. POOR MANUFACTURE. Finally, the wood all appears to be pressed, with just a faint veneer of black on it. That veneer chips easily, living livid white spots in your brand-new furniture. I only felt like the price of this was slightly cheap, but the production was very much so.