DUH, manufacturers!
I need a chair that can recline only the back section, plus tilt lock the part your butt sits on (aka tilt lock or rocking lock) and raise/lower height. Basically what a lot of $109 racer chairs do (such as this one from newegg
Homall Racing Style Ergonomic Computer Gaming Chair with High-Back Swivel PU Leather, Seat Height Adjustable, and Lumbar & Head Support
https://www.newegg.com/p/358-003X-0...VCdbACh2LdQVsEAkYDSABEgJ2P_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
But without some of the features these race chairs have:
I need the headrest area to not have any plastic (because when reclined, head might be lower and then on the stupid pointless hard plastic area, and the pillows I hate - I don't need my head pushed forward at all by a pillow and I need the chair to also not already have a headrest area that is curved/pushed out farther than the back area even without the pillow (If anything I want the headrest to be farther back than the back section). what I mean is, side view of the chair, the head area should not be forward of the back rest area - it should be all straight, most race chairs aren't. Some don't have the forward headrest hat bad like the secret labs omega but I'm not really trying to spend $375 on a chair, more like $200, what I'm asking for could be sold for just $109 but they just don't make them or easy to find.
I do not want the back area to have the bucket racecar lips along the sides,
Also same for the butt area, don't want the bucket lips on the sides of thighs.
I might have to actually get something like the omega and cut it open and hacksaw the frame to remove these restricting racecar lips from the sides.
I play guitar and keyboards and have a swivel workstation and I can't have those stupid bucket seat sides, or on the seat part so I can't put my thigh over the edge of the chair and play a keyboard on a side desk because of it.
These race chairs also don't seem as padded as even the $100 chairs like this one I bought a year ago like this:
BestEquip Executive Office Chair with Footrest PU Leather High-Back Reclining Office Chair Adjustable Reclining Computer Chair Napping Armchair Managerial Swivel Office Chair with Foot Stool
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Office-C...ial-Foot-Reclining-Swivel-High-Back/356222228
but after buying something like the one above, I concluded I want something that also has the tilt lock which the one linked above doesn't. (they all don't in that category even though for the same price you can get a racer type but it has the bucket sides and plastic/forward pushing headrest is all I'm saying).
The leg rest is useless on this chair also BTW, unless maybe full reclined but I don't recline much often - if using leg rest while not reclined, it does the opposite of what tilt/rocker lock does and is very uncomfortable it basically tilts you forward and is worse than it sounds.
I don't need the chair to have a leg rest. I built a custom desk and will add my own legrest(s). I don't even need the chair to have arm rests because the desk is horseshoe shaped and I use the horseshoe part of the desk as arms rests works great.
I need it not leather also but luckily there are so many that aren't but I haven't found what I'm looking for still.
All I'm saying is I simply only need the features of a $109 racer (reclines, raises/lowers, and has tilt lock aka rocking lock which is often shown by the big knob dial under the seat) but I want these features in an executive style chair (heavy padded and no bucket lips or forward pushing headrest).
SO stupid that these manufacturers aren't offering this for some reason. I've searched for hours and hours.
If I have to buy a $375 secret labs omega and hacksaw the racecar edges off and sew it up I might, but the headrest also still seems like it might be too forward facing but even if not I don't think I should have to destroy a seat and then hope stitching it back up with 50lb braided kevlar fishing line (thin but strong) is going to hold it from turning into a POS.
I doubt anyone here will have a solution but figured I'd ask anyway. thanks.
I need a chair that can recline only the back section, plus tilt lock the part your butt sits on (aka tilt lock or rocking lock) and raise/lower height. Basically what a lot of $109 racer chairs do (such as this one from newegg
Homall Racing Style Ergonomic Computer Gaming Chair with High-Back Swivel PU Leather, Seat Height Adjustable, and Lumbar & Head Support
https://www.newegg.com/p/358-003X-0...VCdbACh2LdQVsEAkYDSABEgJ2P_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
But without some of the features these race chairs have:
I need the headrest area to not have any plastic (because when reclined, head might be lower and then on the stupid pointless hard plastic area, and the pillows I hate - I don't need my head pushed forward at all by a pillow and I need the chair to also not already have a headrest area that is curved/pushed out farther than the back area even without the pillow (If anything I want the headrest to be farther back than the back section). what I mean is, side view of the chair, the head area should not be forward of the back rest area - it should be all straight, most race chairs aren't. Some don't have the forward headrest hat bad like the secret labs omega but I'm not really trying to spend $375 on a chair, more like $200, what I'm asking for could be sold for just $109 but they just don't make them or easy to find.
I do not want the back area to have the bucket racecar lips along the sides,
Also same for the butt area, don't want the bucket lips on the sides of thighs.
I might have to actually get something like the omega and cut it open and hacksaw the frame to remove these restricting racecar lips from the sides.
I play guitar and keyboards and have a swivel workstation and I can't have those stupid bucket seat sides, or on the seat part so I can't put my thigh over the edge of the chair and play a keyboard on a side desk because of it.
These race chairs also don't seem as padded as even the $100 chairs like this one I bought a year ago like this:
BestEquip Executive Office Chair with Footrest PU Leather High-Back Reclining Office Chair Adjustable Reclining Computer Chair Napping Armchair Managerial Swivel Office Chair with Foot Stool
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Office-C...ial-Foot-Reclining-Swivel-High-Back/356222228
but after buying something like the one above, I concluded I want something that also has the tilt lock which the one linked above doesn't. (they all don't in that category even though for the same price you can get a racer type but it has the bucket sides and plastic/forward pushing headrest is all I'm saying).
The leg rest is useless on this chair also BTW, unless maybe full reclined but I don't recline much often - if using leg rest while not reclined, it does the opposite of what tilt/rocker lock does and is very uncomfortable it basically tilts you forward and is worse than it sounds.
I don't need the chair to have a leg rest. I built a custom desk and will add my own legrest(s). I don't even need the chair to have arm rests because the desk is horseshoe shaped and I use the horseshoe part of the desk as arms rests works great.
I need it not leather also but luckily there are so many that aren't but I haven't found what I'm looking for still.
All I'm saying is I simply only need the features of a $109 racer (reclines, raises/lowers, and has tilt lock aka rocking lock which is often shown by the big knob dial under the seat) but I want these features in an executive style chair (heavy padded and no bucket lips or forward pushing headrest).
SO stupid that these manufacturers aren't offering this for some reason. I've searched for hours and hours.
If I have to buy a $375 secret labs omega and hacksaw the racecar edges off and sew it up I might, but the headrest also still seems like it might be too forward facing but even if not I don't think I should have to destroy a seat and then hope stitching it back up with 50lb braided kevlar fishing line (thin but strong) is going to hold it from turning into a POS.
I doubt anyone here will have a solution but figured I'd ask anyway. thanks.
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