European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cleaning up the tyre
Field gun wheels
Detail of the wheel
The first stage in shaping
Shaping with a rasp
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Cleaning up
A few finishing taps
Drawknife in use
Using a press on the tyre join
Sawing off the spoke ends
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A wheel in need of repair
Hammering the tyre into place
Fitting the hot tyre
Clamped in place for tyring
An example of the wheelwrights art
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Welding a hub band
Shaping with a rasp
Welding the tyre
An example of wheel making in the past
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Using a rasp
Wheel in position for the tyre
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Trimming the felloes
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Adzes awaiting handles
Still cooling off.
Welding the tyre joint
Applying a hot tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
A taper auger
Drawknife in use again.
Welding the tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Marking out a felloe
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