European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Shaped handles just made.
Drawknife in use
A few finishing taps
Shaping an adze handle
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Boring a hub the traditional way
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Field gun wheels
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Cooling the tyre down
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Marking out a felloe
Still cooling off.
An interesting wheel!
Checking the tyre circumference
Welding the tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Drawknife in use
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Tyre nearly in place
Fitting the felloes together
An example of wheel making in the past
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Cleaning up
Trimming the felloes
Welding
Clamped in place for tyring
Drawknife in use shaping
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Spot welding
Cooling the hot tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Close up of the hub
Drawknife in use
Shaping with a drawknife
Cooling down
Cleaning up
Hammering the tyre into place
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Initial shaping
Second tyre nearly in place
A wheel in need of repair
A 12 spoked wheel
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