European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Detail of the wheel
Applying a hot tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Second tyre nearly in place
Shaping with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use
Sawing off the spoke ends
Shaping an adze handle
Dampening the flames
Tyre nearly in place
Cleaning up
Close up of the hub
Boring a hub the traditional way
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Using a rasp
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Cleaning up the weld
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
The hot tyre in place
Tail vice and dog
Welding
Cleaning up the tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Cleaning up the felloes
Close up of the clamping
Clamped in place for tyring
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