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