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