how to make an Einheitsfeldmütze

[Newton30]

It only lacks I to sew the insígnia W-SS.


Newton

[PzGr Conrad]

Thanx for the great pattern Moses, it was realy easy to use

Here is some picture of my first m43 hat.
Made of Swedish uniform wool pre 1945 .

[Newton30]

Good work!


Newton

[bf109e4]

I was wondering if u can make a visor/officer cap?????

if u know, plz share it with us!!!

A thousand thx in advance!!!

[moses]

i would love to try. two big problems though:
- i don't know what kind of stuff to use for the visor, or where i would get it
- i assume it would be some form of leather and i really have no idea how to sew through leather properly (without buying a $1000 sewing machine)

[daviken]

For the visor, you can re-use those one from old NVA cap. Sewn it by hand properly,it will avoid to screw your motor!

[pzrwest]

I'm going to try and make one. I'm going to take an east german peaked cap apart carefully and use the pieces to make a pattern. Then i will use a heavy piece of tooling leather for the beak. I will have to hand stitch the beak onto the cap useing my leather stitching needles. Unless you have a shoe makers or tent/awning makers sewing machine that is the only way i know of sewing on the beak is by hand

[daviken]

I think it is the best way to follow! send us pics when you're done with!

[GebirgsNachHpt]

id suggest using a lighter weight leather than that...my original is maybe 1/8" thick patentleather...very thin..made to roll up...

[bf109e4]

I have the NVA visor...................but the peak is made of plastic while the nazi one is made of leather!!!!

It makes the reenactment a bit "off" from the real one............................(just a bit disappointment)

[daviken]

Germans got 2 kinds of peak: leather for crusher and vulcanized fibers(=plastic) for Schirmmütze

[Ryan94]

Germans got 2 kinds of peak: leather for crusher and vulcanized fibers(=plastic) for Schirmmütze

And they got wool peaks, on crusher hats...

[pzrwest]

Yes the crushers also had wool covered beaks as well as the leather beaks. these caps are shown in the books Headgear of Hitlers Germany vol1&2 If interested I have both

[pzrwest]

Well i have worked up a pattern for the crusher cap. The pattern is a direct traceing of the actual cap i disassembled. I had to reduce the scans of the pattern to post here. If anyone wants the full size scan of the patterns please e-mail me at [email protected] and i will send you the full size scans.
contructions:
Pipeing is 1/2"wide then folded in half
pipeing for the top is 32" plus 1/4" added to each end for seam allowance
pipeing for the top and bottom of the band is 23-1/2" plus 1/4" added to each end for seam allowance
band length is 23-1/2" plus 1/4" added to each end for seam allowance
the fieldgrey strip around the bottom is 23-1/2" plus 1/4" added to each end for seam allowances
the other seam allowances are on the patterns

[pzrwest]

here is the last piece