WotR - colours of pikes

[spqrdave]

A question for which my google-fu is clearly inadequate...

 What colours were pikes in the Wars of the Roses (or the 15th century in general)? I'm not referring to the livery colours of the pikemen themselves; rather, the wooden pikes. Natural wood colour? Stained? Painted?

cheers,

Dave

[HappyChappy439]

The examples I've seen in museums tend to be either plain wood, or varnished and stained a darker colour, but that might just be their age! So I'd assume anywhere between shades of brown wood, all the way to black and grey!

I'd assume the brighter colours would be reserved for lances and shorter polearms

[spqrdave]

The examples I've seen in museums tend to be either plain wood, or varnished and stained a darker colour, but that might just be their age! So I'd assume anywhere between shades of brown wood, all the way to black and grey!

I'd assume the brighter colours would be reserved for lances and shorter polearms

That's my thinking as well, thanks!

[bluewillow]

I painted mine light ochre colours through to stained browns.

I have French accounts from the mad war of red and white pikes, but that could be Cornelius Mas shafts (crimson) and ash shafts (cream) respectively.

Cheers
Matt