European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Still cooling off.
Clamped in place for tyring
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Shaped handles just made.
Boring a hub the traditional way
A few finishing taps
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up the felloes
Clamping the wheel down
Adzes awaiting handles
Cooling the hot tyre
Cooling down
Hammering the tyre into place
Drawknife in use
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up the tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Marking out a felloe
Trimming the felloes
Tail vice and dog
Shaping an adze handle
Cooling the tyre down
Applying a hot tyre
Fitting the hot tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Cleaning up
Initial shaping
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Sawing off the spoke ends
Welding a hub band
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Fitting the felloes together
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding the tyre joint
Detail of the wheel
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Second tyre being hammered into place
Close up of the clamping
Welding the tyre
Checking the tyre circumference
Wheel in position for the tyre
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
An example of wheel making in the past
Welding
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Tyre nearly in place
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up the weld
Sawing off the spoke ends
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Trimming with a drawknife
Using a press on the tyre join
Cleaning up
Shaping with a rasp
Using a rasp
Drawknife in use again.
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
A taper auger
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
A pile of iron hubs
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Field gun wheels
A 12 spoked wheel
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Drawknife in use
Second tyre nearly in place
An example of the wheelwrights art
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Close up of the hub
The first stage in shaping
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
The second tyre being hammered in place
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Field gun wheels
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Shaping with a rasp
Welding a hub band
Using a press on the tyre
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Dampening the flames
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Letting off steam
Drawknife in use shaping
An interesting wheel!
Spot welding
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Welding a tyre
Using a chipping hammer
Welding the tyre
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