Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Initial shaping
Using a chipping hammer
Welding a tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Still cooling off.
An example of the wheelwrights art
Cooling the tyre down
Dampening the flames
Cleaning up the tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Letting off steam
Spot welding
Tyre nearly in place
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
An interesting wheel!
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Field gun wheels
Cleaning up
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Drawknife in use
Close up of the clamping
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Using a press on the tyre join
Trimming with a drawknife
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a rasp
Shaping an adze handle
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
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