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Someone who wants to get a good designer chair, but doesn't want to shell out for a new one, can often find an affordable used one on Craigslist. This is not the case with drafting chairs. The cost of a used drafting chair is rarely less than $300 and they're in such demand that even when they're given away for free, people won't take them. Auction sites like eBay offer vintage drafting chairs at auction that can be anywhere from 40 years old and up. And while this might sound like it's worth buying, the reality is more complicated. The first thing to understand is that most of these chairs are in pieces. They're often missing important parts. My chair was missing its wheels, for example. I replaced them with some I bought on Amazon for $32 after watching a YouTube video that showed how to take apart the chair and put it back together. Even with the replacement wheels I had to track down some nuts, washers and spacers from another source. The other big issue is that unless you have a knowledge of how drafting chairs work, you'll have no idea of how your particular chair is supposed to be put together. Most vintage drafting chairs are simply collections of pieces held together by nuts and bolts so they can be taken apart for storage. There's no real design to them, so putting them back together can be a fun, frustrating or tedious process depending on your outlook. But the biggest problem is that vintage drafting chairs are not ergonomically designed. If you're looking for a comfortable chair to work at a laptop, these chairs aren't going to cut it. No amount of tinkering is going to change that fact. Ergonomic studies show that sitting in the human-shaped position facing the screen with your feet on the floor puts about 70 percent of your body weight on your knees and tendsons, which causes tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome, among other problems. If you're looking for an ergonomic drafting chair, the only way to find one is to buy a new one - or several new ones. Only about 10 percent of office furniture sales are for used goods. So if you really want a comfortable, well-made, ergonomically designed drafting chair, you have limited options. The best option might be to buy a really good used drafting table and use it as your home office desk, but this depends on your personal needs and priorities. If you're living in an apartment with limited space and spending most of your day working at home anyway, then that might be the best option for you. And if you need a good set of drafting outifts, the best place to buy those is probably at a vintage auction. For example, I'm writing this article on a vintage drafting bench and drawing board that I bought at an auction last spring. They're both in excellent shape and work perfectly - they're exactly what one would expect from a really nice set of outifts from the 1940s. Full review: "The World's Greatest Drafting Chairs" by John Rumpf, published in The Journal of Design History, Spring 2015 pgs 35-41 original post: https://www.youtube. cfa1e77820
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