European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Shaping an adze handle
Using a chipping hammer
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Boring a hub the traditional way
Marking out a felloe
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
A 12 spoked wheel
Drawknife in use again.
Shaping with a rasp
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a press on the tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Second tyre being hammered into place
Drawknife in use
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up the weld
Drawknife in use
Using a press on the tyre join
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Second tyre nearly in place
An example of the wheelwrights art
Wheel in position for the tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Tyre nearly in place
A few finishing taps
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Cooling the tyre down
Clamping the wheel down
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Tail vice and dog
Cooling the hot tyre
Welding the tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
The hot tyre in place
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