Buying guides

Choose tools for your next upholstery job.

Start with the material, the attachment or the room you have around the frame.

Decide whether you need to get under the crown, reach around an obstruction or pull out a leg that stayed in the wood.

Match the stapler first. Then choose a leg length for the material stack and the wood beneath it.

Compare where the tool catches the webbing and where it can bear on the frame while you attach the free end.

Compare overall tool length, the cutting edge and handle orientation against the cuts your project requires.

Match the path through the upholstery and decide whether the thread needs to emerge at the face or go through to the far side.

Compare the shape around the ring, the spring behavior and the type of ring your tool takes.