Nice tent.
You don't really need an industrial sewing machine to make it. I've sewn up 5 or 6 large tents with my small portable table-top sewing machine, and several dozen various sized canvas bags/pouches. I just switched in a Sears #18 heavy duty needle, and used cotton-wrapped polyester thread. I've sewn up 8 oz. to 14 oz. canvas without problems. Just go slow, pin things together, stop often to ... adjust ... and hand-turn the sewing machine through the thick/multiple layers where necessary.
I don't know who manufactured my machine, but it is called a Dressmaker.
The hardest part of sewing up a tent is having enough room to spread everything out and get the seams all pinned together. And then you have to get ... creative ... to feed it all through the sewing machine - that C shaped opening never seems to be deep enough.
With a Baker tent, you almost have a whole wall-tent sewn up. All that you are missing would be the side walls around half of the tent.
A lot of people make up an extra Privacy Curtain for their Baker tents. It's like a second awning out front, but only has to go from the ridge line down to the ground. Then they can leave the awning stretched/staked out, close the privacy curtain, and be able to change their skivvies without the rest of the world watching! Most privacy curtains get made in two pieces - that overlap a bit in the center. Put tape ties along the sides, and along the center so you can tie it shut. When not in use, just roll it up to the ridgepole and tie it up. Or tie it to each side like window curtains.
Of course, that privacy curtain does then block any reflected heat/light from your fire from getting back into the tent. But most females appreciate it.
Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands
p.s. I've sewn up 2 Large wedge tents (10x12 by 8 foot high), one 7 x 9 by 7 high, and one 6 x 7 1/2 by 6 foot high. The hardest part was getting enough canvas for the projects. I still have and use one of the large and the small wedge tents. And I need to repair/modify a 10x12 wall tent I picked up for a $3 "chance" at a fishing camp auction. Nobody had untied and unrolled it, so nobody knew if the canvas was good or full of mouse houses. It was dirty, but otherwise OK except for a few holes. That $3 "chance" paid off this time.
