who else does upholstery
Looks dead on to the original.
I run a machine, but it isn't strong enough for foam backing on vinyl. The trick is to have a good pattern and be careful removing the old stuff.
B&D up in Denver also sells foam for a good price. I'll have to check that place out that you go to.
I reupholstered a mid century chase lounge and an end seat with steel rod hairpin legs that I made for it, that now reside in my living room. The end seat was fairly simple with it's P cap armrests and base, but the chase lounge was tricky, because it doesn't have a lot of seams. It was mostly stretching work, on a staple gun, which can be odd with a fixed pattern.
I've found that playing with different feet and slides on the machine with each type of cloth used on a test piece can give you great results when running your lines.
Right now, I'm playing with a full curve needle, hand stitching armrest covers, because I'm not impressed with the rubberized vinyl finish in the Scamp. They look cheap.
When I run hand stitches on a curve needle into something solid, like those armrest pads, I like to place dots where I want the stitches to enter and exit, so they are uniform and gives me a better idea than just a line, when I return the needle from the blind side, coming back through. A line only gives me where all of the stitches need to be, but if I use dots to target, it turns out way more uniform.
I'm going to look in to a professional machine soon, because I just happened to come up with a lot of projects down the line that will make it worth buying.
I do upholstery but it has been a while since I have. I used to have a mattress manufacturing company and I had a bunch of specialty equipment that I collected along the way. One of my favorite tools is the pneumatic hog ring gun. I still have 5 or 6 and do they make attaching seat covers easier.
Start a piercing pagoda.