Looks great, nightmare to assemble

Once it is up and installed, it is a great looking piece, especially for the price. Assembly is a nightmare. The estimates are way off. You can put this together in an afternoon. And by afternoon I mean 4-6 hours. It comes with the center ball portion, with the light fixtures attached. And with a couple of hundred of the spikes (in two different lengths). Study the instructions closely and review the pictures here on Amazon to ensure that you're placing the spikes in the correct order (short/long) to reach the desired outcome. The center ball has the holes drilled and threaded, as well as the spikes have their ends threaded. That's good. What's bad: the painting/powder coating fills in the threads. This makes the spikes not fit in 90% of the holes. A tap is provided, but that means tediously re-tapping the threads on all 120 holes for the spikes. Oh, and you can't tap the holes next to the lights, because you cannot rotate the tap with the lights in the way. The spikes are so small in diameter that it is hard to get a strong enough grip on them to screw them into the base. I ended up with blisters on my fingertips from screwing in all the spikes. It looks great once it is up though, and I get a ton of complements on it.

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