Needed a blow torch and a rubber mallet to assemble it. This is a gorgeous table, and I was delighted to purchase it as such as good price. I soon learned, however, why it was priced so low. The tabletop arrived in perfect shape, but the legs, which came in a separate box, were slightly bent and misshapen, and did not slide together as shown in the photo of the assembled table. Luckily for me, my husband is a physicist and was able to quickly solve the problem. He put one leg in the freezer to shrink the atoms in the metal, and used a blowtorch on the other piece to expand it. By shrinking one piece, and heating another, he was able to get the pieces  to fit together and used a rubber mallet to gently pound the pieces in place. After that, he secured the legs, and we flipped it over -- it looks lovely in our mid-century modern-styled living room.