When I went to assemble this table, it was the second table that I was to put together this night. The first table that I assembled was not the same brand as this table, but matches it quite nicely. The first table was very easy to assemble, but I found that the construction materials seemed cheap.
So when I opened the box for this table, the Dorel Home Products tall end table, I noticed that the quality of the building materials was a bit nicer. The wood felt more like real wood, the long bolts that tie the legs to the top looked like they were machined better, and the tool included seemed to be of a higher quality.
Unfortunately for me, one of the pre/drilled holes for the pins that lock into the bottom shelf, was off location. What this caused to do was to put upward pressure on the wood from the pin especially when you tried to lock in the pin using the mechanism that so many build/it/yourself home furniture includes and uses for its customers to put the pieces together. So when I went to turn the blocking piece onto the pin, the corner busted off exposing the drilled hole in the side of the shelf that pin goes through. Splitting it in half.
With the pin the leg, I laid the pin in the, what was now a trough in the side of the shelf, it was easy to see what the problem was. The hole in the leg where the pin is to be screwed into, was off location and for me to drill a hole in the leg where it SHOULD have been wouldve just made the existing hole much larger because the drilled hole wouldve had to have been very close to the existing hole.
I tried to glue the corner back on and try again, but being very careful not to force it, still made the fracture reappear. So Im just not bothering with the pin locking mechanism and just gluing the whole corner together. See my progress to that point here:
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So while this table may be a good value for the money and easy to assemble, and many reviewers here have attested to that, I, unfortunately had a bad experience with it. Buy at your own risk.
I Didnt Get A Good One
When I went to assemble this table, it was the second table that I was to put together this night. The first table that I assembled was not the same brand as this table, but matches it quite nicely. The first table was very easy to assemble, but I found that the construction materials seemed cheap. So when I opened the box for this table, the Dorel Home Products tall end table, I noticed that the quality of the building materials was a bit nicer. The wood felt more like real wood, the long bolts that tie the legs to the top looked like they were machined better, and the tool included seemed to be of a higher quality. Unfortunately for me, one of the pre/drilled holes for the pins that lock into the bottom shelf, was off location. What this caused to do was to put upward pressure on the wood from the pin especially when you tried to lock in the pin using the mechanism that so many build/it/yourself home furniture includes and uses for its customers to put the pieces together. So when I went to turn the blocking piece onto the pin, the corner busted off exposing the drilled hole in the side of the shelf that pin goes through. Splitting it in half. With the pin the leg, I laid the pin in the, what was now a trough in the side of the shelf, it was easy to see what the problem was. The hole in the leg where the pin is to be screwed into, was off location and for me to drill a hole in the leg where it SHOULD have been wouldve just made the existing hole much larger because the drilled hole wouldve had to have been very close to the existing hole. I tried to glue the corner back on and try again, but being very careful not to force it, still made the fracture reappear. So Im just not bothering with the pin locking mechanism and just gluing the whole corner together. See my progress to that point here: [.] So while this table may be a good value for the money and easy to assemble, and many reviewers here have attested to that, I, unfortunately had a bad experience with it. Buy at your own risk.