Thank's and welkome to the Patreon team! If you got some special suggestions, ideas or feedback, let me know :) . The Last made the process so much easier and helped me to get a feeling for the proportions. It would have been possible without it, but I definitly would have needed more then one try XD .

@@TheShielderyThanks and will do. You've inspired me to try making shoes with a last at some point- I just wanted to get on with the shoes and making lasts (I didn't realize they could be found to buy) seemed like a lot of extra work; but now I'm curious enough to try. Once I get through the dozen or so other projects I have in mind already LOL

thanks! I will wait and see how those of the video work. They fit excellent with the felted insoles of my last video so faar. If you take a look at the source I linked, you can see that the soles weren't that much smaller.

OK. Even for Entering the sole? I also got a straight one and couldn't make those holes that good with it....

Thanks! The patterns vary to much from foot to foot. Just take your owen measurements like i did from the lasts, but in your case directly from your feet. That would be quicker and better then trying to make something standart

Thanks! I am still figuring out, where to place my microphone correctly 😅! after edditing this video I watched like 5 tutrials, because it annoyed me, too. I actually re-synchroniced like 8 lines while being in frame XD. I didn't do that with the ones you refere to, because I thought they add the feeling of the moment better, then what I could re-record. BUT your oppinion makes me doubt my decision XD. thank's a lot for your feedback! that's exactly the kind of review I want and need to improve! :))))

good to know, that i was of help!@@TheShieldery

I watched all turnshoe-videos youtube suggested on page one and two of search results on youtube, but they where either eddited badly, had missing informations or where over complicated - and what was the thing about the video series which ended years ago in the middel of the process?! - that's Why I decided to make this video, caus there was a huge content gap. So I had a two houre call (and many messages) with the Expert that I linked in the description. He said that lasts where found in the middle ages from the 14th century onward. The earliest source I got on hand spontaniously is from the "Hausbücher der Nürnberger Zwölfbrüderstiftung, Mendel 1" from 1425: hausbuecher.nuernberg.de/75-Amb-2-317-17-v/data (under the chair) // edit: I looked our chat up, and lasts existed allready in the early middle ages, here a pair from the 7th century: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisten#/media/Datei:Alamannic_Lasts.jpg The shoe model I made here is from between the 14th and 15th century, so that checks out (link also in description). Nailing the sole to the last makes a gigantic difference and is extremly easy and cheap to make, so it most likely was done that way. I also wore them for a logner time on wet ground and didn't feel any moisture entering through the sole. The oil cloged the holes instantly. I think my video is the best on crafting an autentic medieval turnshoe on youtube, at least compared to the one I found bevore I started recording. If you got any further questions, don't hesitate to ask :)

For bearfoot shoes, I'd choose the same thickness as I did for those shoes. I'd only make them more round on the tip. For the pattern, just wear a sock and then put tape arround your foot. Similar to what I did with the lasts, but instead directly on your feet. Then cut the tape layer in a similar shape as I did in the video and copy it to the leather :) . By doing that it will fit way better then any standart pattern for size 41 :)

English, please ....

@@TheShieldery I also had the opportunity to make a pair of medieval shoes about 2 years ago for a client at a museum, it was very difficult to do but I managed, I used a thicker and softer leather, I used a Viking shoe as a mold. It was a pleasure to finish and use it. I sewed it all together and then reversed it like you did. Our models are similar.

The leather sole is difficult to compare to a plastic one. I'd say the leather material itself is way more gripy and gets even better, when it's wet (swells up => rougher surface). But on the other hand it has no profile. On muddy terrain the profile of a modern shoe won't help you much either though and you would have to carry a lot of dirt arround. The feeling while walking is a bit different, but after the first day I'd actually prefere it over a plastic shoe on a field. It feels quite bad on hard surfaces, like an asphalt road for example, caus the thin leather is not elastic at all. I got to walk way smoother on those, but on an event the roads are not paved, so; Yeah, I'd recommend it :)

@@TheShieldery awesome, thanks!!