Crafty Arts Tiber Studio Easel

The easel (when finally built) is of good design though with a few manufacturing flaws. The feet are not quite level causing one corner to need a small cardboard chock to stop the easel rocking. Two bolts that hold the tray were impossible to fully tighten as the drilled holes are not big enough, this could be fixed by changing the nut supplied to a captive nut and the bolt having an groove for alan key rather than being smooth. We also have two brass plates that neither appear on the instructions so no idea where these go. The easel comes in a long box with nothing partially assembled but the instructions assume that magically upon opening the box the easel assembles itself into three parts. If this was the case it would then just have been fiendishly hard to assemble rather than just virtually impossible. If you are a master carpenter then go ahead and buy this easel. If DIY is not your first passion I would not buy until a YouTube video appears or they send partially assembled parts. Now that it is up i'm happy with the easel. For the money this is a decent easel and if they improved the instructions i would not hesitate to recommend if you want to paint large canvasses.