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