Char-Log Single Rocker

Once complete it is a pretty good chair. Assembly is pretty straight forward but the tight spaces you need to get into to secure the nuts can be infuriating. Be prepared and remember to leave everything a little loose until complete. As expected from wood products, the finish has been absorbed into the wood unequally but good enough for a while. (all outdoor wood needs to be refinished every now and again anyway so no bother)The only problem I have with it is that some of the pieces have either warped or were not cut exactly to size so they have minor gaps when construction is complete or do not align correctly. (a hard thing to do with rounded edges) It may cause cracks in pressure areas with time but I haven't had it long enough to tell.Side note: for a 6 foot man, the back is still too tall to wear a hat without constantly hitting it. You will need to saw about 2 inches off or find better shade.

Over all the chair is looks nice, BUT made cheap and needed more parts (washers) to complete the assembly CORRECTLY the bolts are to long and stick out at the bottom.I bought 2, for all the effort of putting together the 1st ONE I'll keep it, the other will be returned.

This chair is gorgeous! Very solid and roomy. The finish is beautiful and they can stay outside all summer without being covered. At the end of the season I will revarnish them like the company recommends. I can see these chairs lasting a long time. Definitely worth the price.Regarding assembly it can be a bit tricky but don't the the reviews scare you off. First, fully read the instructions. Every word on the page. There is some very small print in illogical places that explains important information like how the bolts should go. Next, lay put one side of the rocker following the diagram. Make sure to pay attention to what side you put the rocker piece on, it should go on the outside of the rocker. It's easy to mess up if you don't pay close attention. After the first side is assembled, it's easy sailing from there. We bought 2 of these chairs and assembly on the first took about an hour while the seconds took about half that. I assembled them and my husband fully tighten all the nuts and bolts to finish them up. You will definitely need a socket wrench, a rachet, and the allen wrench they give you to assemble and then tighten everything up on these chairs. And maybe some pliers, if your fingers won't fit into small spaces, to put the nut on the bolt.It's worth the time and effort because at the end of the day you have a quaility piece of furniture. Review by a 47 year old woman.

This Rocker is well made. I liked the fact that each piece of the chair was identified with a given number followed by either the letterL (left) R (Right). Once all pieces were laid out along with the hardware being separated in plastic bags with a corresponding Letter; it was very easy to follow the four step start to finish procedure.Now the not so good results: Four of the (4.7") bolts which hold the back rest are too long. If the design for this length bolt would have been drilled another 1/2" into the adjoining vertical back rest. Instead, the bolts are unable to be securely tightened simply because they are banging up flush against the adjoining stock. I need to go to my local hardware store and purchase 4 bolts (4 inches in length). Lastly there are 4 bolts in the front of the rocker which run horizontal (2 for the front of the seat, 2 for the lower support beam) removing the supplied washers for these four bolts allows the two pieces to be drawn in tight to the left and right side of the rocker.Although this is not a huge deal, it is a bit annoying knowing that additional hardware is necessary in order to have a secure and tight fit to all the pieces. One less star for the necessary hardware alterations.

Comfortable solid rocker. Putting it together wasn't the funnest thing I did that day, but not horrible.

The chair, itself, is great...now that it's assembled. Assembly took several hours, a trip to Home Depot, use of a first-aid kit, and a lot of patience.The instructions are some of the worst I've ever seen. It's basically just a diagram. That's all good and fine if you know what you're doing, but it took me a solid 25 minutes to figure out step 1, because the instructions make little sense. Even once i figured it out, it was really obnoxious to accomplish. Having to screw the nuts on to the ends of the bolts inside small holes was a giant pain.Once I got going, everything was rocking along until one of the holes wasn't really done properly. The bolt didn't come through enough to screw the nut on to the end. At first, I thought maybe I could get it with sand paper, but that didn't help enough. The hole was uneven AND not big enough (or...deep enough? or just not quite in the right place). That meant a trip to the Home Depot. Trying to find a larger bolt was a challenge, because the bolts are metric and they didn't have a metric one large enough. I found a standard one that worked and went back home to finish the job. I didn't fully realize where the bolt would be on the finished chair, so it didn't occur to me to spray paint the bolt black before use. So now I have a bright, shiny silver bolt smack on the front of my chair, but you couldn't pay me enough money to take that thing apart and spray paint it now.The tool that was provided to tighten the bolts kept getting stuck on the bolts. I pinched my hand and drew blood trying to get it off. Tightening all the bolts down after FINALLY getting everything else together was just...the icing on the cake. It took forever and I was just ready to be finished.the chair is very comfortable and it looks nice, but I was going to get a second one and now there's no way I will subject myself to this assembly again, even though I know how to do it. Oh, and there's a video of the assembly instructions, but don't get your hopes up. It's just an animation of the same stupid graphic without any actual instructions.

Purchased 2 and both lean ahead and are not comfortable, any tricks to get the, to lean back