BIG RED Torin Swivel Bar Stool: Padded Garage/Shop Seat with Chrome Plated Legs, Black, 28.74" Tall, 18.5" Diameter

Great stool for my workshop. Comfortable. Rugged. Sturdy. Inexpensive. Looks nice. As for the assembly, how hard can it be? 9 nuts and bolts. That's it. (Actually, no, it's not!) When you put the legs together be sure to tighten them all BEFORE you attach the rotating bearing plate. The rotating plate actually covers the bolt at the top. I had to go back and remove the plate to tighten that bolt. When you put the rotating bearing plate on, be sure to turn the top plate enough to where you can slip the bolts into the bottom plate. Then tighten them to the legs. This next part is NOT in the instructions. At this point, all of the hardware has been used and you're left with the seat cushion in one hand and the assembled legs and base (rotating bearing plate) in the other. But NO MORE BOLTS! You must now unscrew the four screws from the bottom of the seat cushion and slip them through the holes in the top plate and screw them back into the seat cushion. In other words, attach the rotation bearing plate to the seat cushion using the four screws already in the seat cushion. IF the instructions were clearer this thing would be a cinch to assemble. 9 nuts and bolts and 4 screws. The product itself is great. However, I did spray some WD-40 into the rotating bearing plate just to make sure. Yes, I'd definitely buy this again.

Nice and sturdy

Was able to assemble this stool in 10 minutes. Seems sturdy enough, but I'm sure you'll need to tighten screws once in a while. Not top of the line quality, but good for the price. Price was fair compared to others.

I bought four of these chairs had them for about I think 2 months and they are holding up great sturdy durable I use them for my arcade room and are in use quite a bit they seem to be great so far easy assembly

This is a nice sturdy stool. Extremely easy to assemble, honestly not sure why instructions were even included (BTW, there's a video in the product pictures!!!) Nice thick padding, swivel mount is exactly the same as commercially available boat seat swivels. I just ordered another and assembled it in less than 10 minutes. Alot of whining on these stools, they are $50. If it's too tall for you take a hacksaw, sawzall or grinder and shorten the legs, stick the feet back on. If it wobbles (as mine both did) pull off the feet, add a few 3/8" washers here and there, put the feet back on. If you aren't mechanically inclined, don't buy things that require assembly. These stools were not rocket science to assemble. They are comfortable and sturdy enough to use as a self defense weapon if the need ever arrives!

This is one of the most difficult things I've ever had to put together. I ordered this stool for my workshop. I built the workbench it was going to be used at using my own plans. I've put together swingsets and dozens of pieces of furniture over the years and have built handmade desks for my kids, custom shelving for my storage closet, and a built-in folding table and shelving system for our laundry room. I know how to build stuff. This thing was awful. The big problem is that none of the screw holes would line up. They were slightly off on each leg and therefore required a lot of flexing to get it into place. The chrome plating was really cheap and flaked off everywhere. I had to use a magnet to pick up all the little pieces (I had originally started putting it together in my living room after it arrived in the mail). Some of the pieces were big too. Whole chunks about an inch long were popping off along with the little flakes. I wrestled with this thing for nearly two hours and it only has 9 screws! I was flabbergasted. I've never been so frustrated putting something together. For what it's worth, the metal seems sturdy and the seat itself swivels well and seems comfortable and is the perfect height for my custom-built workbench. But all I could think of the entire time I was wrestling with it was how much I hated that stool and how I was going to give it a rare 1-star review. If you look at my history, it's extremely rare for me to rate something this low. But even with the simple construction, they still couldn't get it right. There's no excuse for that. Now I have a derpy looking chair with mangled legs and chunks of missing chrome, but it gets the job done in my workshop. I still hate it every time I look at it because it brings up the PTSD from putting it together. I strained my right wrist and pulled a tendon or something in my right elbow, which has never happened to me before and felt really weird and not good. I've since tried hammering the legs out with a rubber mallet to get them looking less weird, but when I straighten things back out it wobbles horribly because of the misalignment. So I either have to live with it looking dumb, or suffer with a bad wobble. For now I'm going for function over form. I'd have drilled new holes myself, but they were just off enough that I'm not sure if I could have put in another hole without compromising the strength of it, but far enough out of alignment that it took a massive effort to get it to work. Flesh against steel. Apparently I need to learn how to weld. If this company has any decency about them, they'd send a replacement unit. But part of me really doesn't want to go through the assembly process again. I imagine it wouldn't be so bad if the parts weren't defective, but who knows what I might get.

AWFUL instructions. Those terrible instructions when they dont label screws and you have a different count than the book says you should have, because they've screwed some in that you then have to unscrew. The pieces of metal tubing are solid and it turns pretty good and is comfy so far. But technical writers really need to freaking work on the instructions.

Very good stool! Pretty well built and good cushion. Worth the price!