Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Initial shaping
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping with a drawknife
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
An interesting wheel!
Cleaning up the tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Field gun wheels
Cooling down
The hot tyre in place
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Detail of the wheel
Cleaning up
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
A pile of iron hubs
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Tyre nearly in place
The first stage in shaping
Letting off steam
Using a rasp
Tail vice and dog
Shaping an adze handle
Trimming the felloes
Close up of the hub
Still cooling off.
Adzes awaiting handles
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Clamped in place for tyring
An example of wheel making in the past
Checking the tyre circumference
Wheel in position for the tyre
Welding a hub band
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Welding the tyre
Clamping the wheel down
Hammering the tyre into place
Shaping with a rasp
Cooling the hot tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
Welding the tyre joint
Trimming with a drawknife
Cleaning up
Drawknife in use
Drawknife in use again.
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Using a chipping hammer
Shaped handles just made.
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up the weld
Cleaning up the tyre
Field gun wheels
Welding a hub band
A few finishing taps
Fitting the hot tyre
Welding
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
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