This is a very substantial table. The wood is heavy and thick not a cheap-o.The only thing wrong with ours is that there appears to have been a chip in the top and it was filled in with some sort of white material. If I had been staining this, it wouldn't have worked at all. However, we were planning to paint it and it covered the white spot completely. This is handling abuse well at our large family's lake house with many clunky boy feet on it, in it, and under it.