Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Clamping the wheel down
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding the tyre
Tail vice and dog
Welding a tyre
Welding the tyre
A 12 spoked wheel
An interesting wheel!
Drawknife in use shaping
A wheel in need of repair
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Drawknife in use again.
Close up of the clamping
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Applying a hot tyre
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Field gun wheels
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Clamped in place for tyring
Cooling the hot tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Spot welding
Second tyre nearly in place
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Welding the tyre
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Welding a hub band
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Letting off steam
Detail of the wheel
Shaped handles just made.
Boring a hub the traditional way
Marking out a felloe
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Fitting the hot tyre
Drawknife in use
Still cooling off.
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Cleaning up
Wheel in position for the tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Cleaning up the weld
Cleaning up the tyre
Checking the tyre circumference
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cleaning up the tyre
Adzes awaiting handles
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Cleaning up the felloes
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Close up of the hub
An example of wheel making in the past
Fitting the felloes together
Dampening the flames
Shaping with a rasp
Using a press on the tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Using a rasp to shape a notch
An example of the wheelwrights art
Tyre nearly in place
Using a press on the tyre join
Drawknife in use
Using a rasp
Drawknife in use
Initial shaping
The hot tyre in place
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Welding the tyre joint
Using a chipping hammer
A few finishing taps
Shaping with a drawknife
Shaping an adze handle
Welding
The first stage in shaping
Trimming with a drawknife
Cooling down
A taper auger
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Trimming the felloes
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cleaning up
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Field gun wheels
Second tyre being hammered into place
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Welding a hub band
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