This stool is heavy and the wood is very nice.  The hardware to put it together sucks.  The machine screws are silver colored which stand out like a sore thumb.  An oil rubbed bronze would look much nicer.  One of the holes for the machine screws was not set deep enough so the screw could not be tightened without adding washers...and the tool they provide...forget it.  Absolutely worthless.
Over all though, the stool is very sturdy and nice looking but I would not give it 5 stars because of the shoddy attention to detail mentioned above.