You know, several have mentioned that they've had this or that problem with their table coming apart or needing extra stabilization. I've had my table for probably 10 years now and I have never experienced any such problems and mine has been through 2 moves in the past 4 years. I can't enough good things about this table. In fact, I've thought about this and if something happened to my table, I would go right back to Jo-ann Fabrics and buy another one. I did catch mine when it was on sale too. Got it for just about half the regular price.