08 Webbing Assembly

In this video we take a look at how to assemble our 08 webbing in two different styles. Firstly we look at how it should look in 1914, and then we take a look at how to fit it for life in the trenches and the first day of the Somme.

[@ianlandry72]

Just started my WWI British reenactment journey and your channel has been incredibly helpful. I put my webbing together with no issues following the video! I really appreciate the content you've made for this community!

[@WW1Russ8335]

I've lost count of the times I've watched this mate, so useful

[@megannii_]

tyy these videos r my savior when im trying to figure out how to draw this stuff

[@trenchvalor]

Well done and thank you!

[@edenwest8421]

Thank you so much for this video, my first webbing arrives soon for a reenactment event next month, and this will help me look top notch! 😀

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Good luck matey!

[@georgenicholls7581]

Thank you so much I’ve been looking how to do this for years thank you so so much

[@ellistonwebsite]

Great video. Wish I could have seen it a few years back as it would have made putting webbing together much easier.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

ellistonwebsite always worth a revisit for it!

[@ellistonwebsite]

@@TwoMikesProductions Absolutely! I noticed a few errors I had made but will now correct. Thanks.

[@MavTheG]

Thank you so much

[@jacklausch3517]

That was Awesome... When it's together makes so much sense.. as always keep a sharp eye out for The Central Powers

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Thanks ! Even for an old hand it can get confusing!

[@dondouglass6415]

Fascinating... Huzzah!! 😊

[@buonafortuna8928]

And I used to curse 58 pattern. Good job Mike. Just subbed.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Thank you!

[@WrathRuin]

Cracking video. Keep up the good work.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Thank you kindly!

[@bridiecostello2981]

thank you foe posting this it was very helpful and informative

[@TwoMikesProductions]

You are most welcome! Keep popping back when you need to brush up!

[@4002corbe]

This webbing is surprisingly modular, I’d say most innovative for over a hundred years ago …

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Its superb. There are loads of other additions and variants to it as well like the 'specialists' kit etc.

[@oliverb2501]

thank you for your videos! thay are extremely informative and they have helped me a lot as reference material for my BEF impression!

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Not a problem, and thanks for the feedback. New videos coming soon!

[@oliverb2501]

@@TwoMikesProductions also, the two straps on top off the large pack, what are those called?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

@@oliverb2501 Valise attatchment straps. (Pretty boring I know!)

[@oliverb2501]

@Mike Everest Thanks! where do you recommend looking for webbing?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

@@oliverb2501 Currently WPG's stuff is decent, and the SOF High grade stuff works well. Original is always best, but its now completely bonkers price wise. I saw a full set of 08 hammer on evilbay for 800 quid. BLIMEY!

[@alison-couch1978]

great man now I know how to fiddle with my 1908 pattered webbing:-)

[@grantellis1970]

I'm guessing What Price Glory date items like SBR bags and Wire Cutter frogs 1914 to make it obvious they're reproductions. There are some other suppliers who do correct WW2 dates, but with incorrect manufacturer stamps, same reason. Look the part until close inspection... Cheers for the video, way easier than trying to follow scans of hundred year old manuals!

[@TwoMikesProductions]

I'd just rub them off and repaint basically . Much easier

[@mr.goodman7682]

Love it ;)

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Glad!

[@georgecostanza1617]

Hey Mike just wondering if I can trust Soldier of a fortune with stuff like canteen entrenching tool and bayonets thanks keep up the great work.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Canteen, yes, e tool head yes, the helves leave a bit to be desired though. As for bayonets it's always better buying an original. If you live in the UK, Chelmsford militaria just took shipment of 900 originals, so go for them. :)

[@gassass2663]

A great video but 1:58 my shoulder straps dont have those where can i get them?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

eBay sell numerous. Search for 08 webbing buckle. Or head to the dreaded soldier of fortune for them. Originals are available as well.

[@MattNovosad]

Great video! How would you recommend rubbing off the pesky incorrect dates from things like the SBR?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

I literally just licked my thumb and rubbed a lot. Vodka will work as well

[@MattNovosad]

Mike Everest Thanks!

[@cosmorogers9617]

Don't buy a sof one they're like most things they sell bad and not worth the money. Get a dicky knight or Pegasus militaria one, they're the correct size, they've got the correct poppers unlike the fake newey press studs sof use and have decent whip chord attached.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

@@cosmorogers9617 Chances of you actually getting a Pegasus or Dickie Knight ones are low. Very low. The turnaround time is incredibly long and the Americans need the stuff much more regularly than in the UK.

[@mr.goodman7682]

I am very interested in the army, I have a full set of jungle/Huss army gear and a have Vietnam era webbing strap with auscam additions

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Cool. If you chucked that at me, i wouldnt have the foggiest idea how to put together American Webbing in Vietnam at all!

[@hardalarboard8876]

Was the haversack always intended to go on the back at some point as I noticed it has pre set straps for the buckles on the straps and buckles for the straps, or did they have another purpose, or did it originally not have them and it was changed?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Yeah its definitely built with adjustments in mind. Bear in mind in 1908 its a peace time army so they can afford time to spend on tiny detail and minutiae, whereas in 1914 everything has to change and all the tiny fiddly bits go out of the window.

[@hardalarboard8876]

@@TwoMikesProductions Thank you, I was wondering about this

[@oscarcornah-burrows8183]

Hi mike, need some advice as to where I would purchase an officers tunic to the 1914-16 Cuff rank spec of high quality. I have an original from 1917 and would love to match the quality!

[@TwoMikesProductions]

You need a custom fitted job then. If you are in the UK, Richard Knight will do a good one, if you are in the US then head to Joe Blunt in Florida. Both will be expensive , but the quality will be excellent. The material for it is called Hainsworth Whipcord. Good luck!

[@l.cressey6806]

Hoping to do a ww1 West Yorkshire regiment impression in honor of my great great grandfather.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

CurtisThe DrunkCat duke of wellingtons westridings? Fantastic!

[@l.cressey6806]

Mike Everest Yes. What do you think of What Price Glory’s service dress repro?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

@@l.cressey6806 it's much better now than it used to be. I'd you need good puttees for it, get in contact with me on Facebook at portals to the past Mike. I do them for fifty dollars including shipping if you are in the states

[@l.cressey6806]

Mike Everest thank you, I will look into that.

[@cosmorogers9617]

I'm curious why has the waterbottle carrier been attached with the strap back to front?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Idiosyncrasies of working upside down, trying to reverse yourself to the canera. When you strip kit apart and put it back together backwards and upside down it took us multiple takes. Stuff gets through that we didn't even notice. If you get a chance it might be worth you doing a video as well. More the merrier.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

You will also note its reversed when I do the 1916 style. So yeah, one of those little mistakes as I was having to think back to front.

[@cosmorogers9617]

Fair enough mate, I wasn’t trying to sound like a knob just was actually curious as I thought it was something I’d overlooked.

[@hardalarboard8876]

Do you have any information on Officer’s Kit? Cavalry in particular, I am making an impression of a 2nd Lieutenant of the 4th Dragoon Guards in 1914.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Hi there! I'm afraid outside of looking at photos, i've got no real further insight into officers kit as its not my sphere of knowledge. The excellent 'big blue book' Uniforms and Equipment of the British Army of World War 1 by Chambers will be invaluable for it. Good hunting!

[@hardalarboard8876]

Thank you!

[@viniciusbueno2160]

Recently i got what it looks like an 08 pattern webbing but it has only 2 ammo pouches, a large pouch on the front and another bag on the back, and a pistol holster, made by me.c.o and dated 1918. Any info on what army used this set?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

I reckon that might be a 'Specialist' 08 rig for things like pistol order or Bren Gun carriers. If you have a link to the pic I could see would be very interested

[@viniciusbueno2160]

@@TwoMikesProductions i'll post some photos later on my Instagram and will leave the link here, thanks! Since it's dated 1918 i'm gonna use the equipment with my portuguese impression

[@viniciusbueno2160]

@@TwoMikesProductions hi again!! Here's the link instagram.com/p/B5OGl6tBqyx/?igshid=s69c75ot7za5

[@paulgdunsford7469]

Hi in Australia any suggestions of where to buy this webbing

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Lawrence Ordnance. Really really good webbing as well!

[@andrewgregory151]

Where do you get the later war pouches?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

I got mine second hand, but SOF sell them as well

[@stokesjack]

Where did you get all of this?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

This is a set made from soldier of fortune and military history workshop stuff combined.

[@tobiasbourne9073]

Are you from Essex? My Great Great Grandfather served in the 1st Line Regiment, 3rd Cavalry Division, Essex Yeomanry Dragoon’s. He lived in Witham, Essex.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

I'm actually from Sussex , but that's really cool! Essex yeomanry badges are hard to come by if you find one

[@tobiasbourne9073]

Mike Everest Nice, I’m looking into portraying a Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion soldier at the Second Battle of Ypres

[@TwoMikesProductions]

@@tobiasbourne9073 cracking!

[@johnhiers9405]

How do you find the quality of this webbing?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

This is a set comprised of MHW and some old stuff from ebay. As a rig, 08 is the best of the great war by a long chalk. The SoF expensive stuff is very good.

[@sterbi9722]

Looking at the photos I can see that soldiers kinda did whatever they want, some soldiers wouldn’t have a haversack or still keep it at their sides

[@TwoMikesProductions]

We saw one recently from Cambrai, and there are guys wearing Valise packs but no haversacks at all. I think its to do with them needing to carry different things in assaults, like as many bombs as possible or supplies etc.

[@GreatBritain105]

My set looks similar to this, but the cross guards have none of those buckles

[@TwoMikesProductions]

The cross straps? Hmmm. They should have if you intend to attatch a pack to them. If not, repros and originals are readily available to buy the brass buckles for.

[@GreatBritain105]

@@TwoMikesProductions Could you link some if it isn't too much trouble?

[@TwoMikesProductions]

@@GreatBritain105 Top left hand ones. For further searches type 08 webbing buckle into your search engine and that should give you a good run www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403701354971?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=403701354971&targetid=293946777986&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1007181&poi=&campaignid=17116423086&mkgroupid=134652533165&rlsatarget=pla-293946777986&abcId=9300856&merchantid=115172431&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkruVBhCHARIsACVIiOypmiwiZzzWF3y8XpfKL_Ui8GFZa7W-0ErksGUT62e6uVUwwyqggjkaAj2pEALw_wcB

[@jimithesoldier6785]

I'm still struggling with mine.

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Persevere! Take the things and lay them out exactly as I have in front of you, and then follow it step by step. It takes a moment but you will get the hang of it

[@lunaparsons2171]

could you at some point do video at a reenactment

[@TwoMikesProductions]

As in one of my group in action ? I'm sure we could oblige that!

[@lunaparsons2171]

@@TwoMikesProductions thanks Mike

[@ccameron9]

On the battle order try not to lean over to far or else you might get a mess tin in the head

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Throwing yourself to the prone firing position with too much gusto *CLONK*. We've all done it! :D

[@donkeyslappedyoshi609]

please help, the water bottle wont fit into my carrier...

[@TwoMikesProductions]

Okay first question, which brand is the carrier? Because this was an issue for some of our guys at Newville this year and is an important thing to get right. So lets see if we can crack this.

[@donkeyslappedyoshi609]

@@TwoMikesProductions the carrier was from lawrance ordnance, the bottle was from WPG. Thanks for your response!

[@TwoMikesProductions]

@@donkeyslappedyoshi609 Okay, first thing you need to do is get the carrier wet and spend an hour in front of the TV stretching it as best you can in every direction. The WPG bottles can have really thick coverings. Next thing is to get an old straight razor or bic razor blade and shave the wool down as best as possible. If that fails, then grab a new carrier from WPG and that *should* fit it. The Lawrence Ordnance stuff is really good, but can sometimes be troublesome with other brands. Let me know how it goes!

[@donkeyslappedyoshi609]

@@TwoMikesProductions righto, got it in. cheers mate!

[@TwoMikesProductions]

@@donkeyslappedyoshi609 Now the key is to be able to get it back out and then in again!