Warning: spent $200 on a nicer drafting stool and it wrecked my old setup completely

I finally gave in and bought a used Hag Capisco stool off Facebook Marketplace for $200 (they are like $600 new, yikes). My old stool was just a basic $40 office chair from Staples that I'd had for like 8 years. The difference is honestly wild - my back stops hurting after 6 hours hunched over a table, and I can actually lean forward without the thing tipping. But here's the thing: it's too tall for my standard drafting table now (you know, the old adjustable kind). I had to put cinder blocks under my table legs to raise it up by 4 inches. So I spent money to fix one problem and created another. Has anyone else dealt with a stool that's too tall for their setup and found a way around it without buying a whole new table?

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garcia.casey15d ago

Laughing at the cinder block solution because that's such a classic "I'm an adult with a real job and this is my life now" move. You basically turned your drafting table into a lifted truck, hope you didn't scratch the floor. At least now you've got a nice stool AND a free arm workout every time you sit down. Maybe just lean into it and call it your "custom ergonomic height adjustment system.

jakef6615d ago

Honestly never thought of it that way but yeah you got a point.