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