Highly recommend these chairs! I spent hours researching rockers and reading reviews and am happy to have landed on these. I assembled two myself. Definitely use a screw driver to attach the base and not what came in the box. Some of the pieces required some extra elbow grease but again, nothing I couldn't do by myself and did not require drilling any holes. These chairs are solid wood and are a good quality. They are also comfortable to sit in. All pieces arrived in good shape with no damage to the black finish.