European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cooling the tyre down
Cleaning up the tyre
A wheel in need of repair
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Drawknife in use
Marking out a felloe
Welding
Fitting the hot tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Initial shaping
An interesting wheel!
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
A few finishing taps
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Applying a hot tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Shaping with a rasp
Boring a hub the traditional way
Hammering the tyre into place
Cleaning up
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Welding a tyre
Using a rasp
A taper auger
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Clamped in place for tyring
Detail of the wheel
An example of wheel making in the past
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Letting off steam
Using a press on the tyre join
Clamping the wheel down
Drawknife in use
Shaped handles just made.
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
A 12 spoked wheel
Trimming the felloes
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