European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Shaping with a drawknife
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping an adze handle
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Using a rasp to shape a notch
The hot tyre in place
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding the tyre joint
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cooling the hot tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Using a chipping hammer
Applying a hot tyre
Using a rasp
Field gun wheels
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Shaped handles just made.
Drawknife in use
Cooling the tyre down
Close up of the hub
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Cleaning up the felloes
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
A taper auger
An example of wheel making in the past
An interesting wheel!
Shaping with a rasp
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cleaning up the weld
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Fitting the hot tyre
Letting off steam
Field gun wheels
Tyre nearly in place
Drawknife in use
Welding a hub band
Hammering the tyre into place
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
An example of the wheelwrights art
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding
Initial shaping
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Checking the tyre circumference
Welding the tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
A 12 spoked wheel
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding the tyre
Trimming the felloes
The first stage in shaping
Clamped in place for tyring
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
A few finishing taps
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