European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Using a chipping hammer
Close up of the clamping
A few finishing taps
Shaping with a drawknife
Shaping with a rasp
Boring a hub the traditional way
Welding the tyre
Marking out a felloe
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Tyre nearly in place
Initial shaping
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
An example of wheel making in the past
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Still cooling off.
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Welding a hub band
Drawknife in use shaping
Fitting the felloes together
Spot welding
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
The second tyre being hammered in place
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
The hot tyre in place
Cleaning up the felloes
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Adzes awaiting handles
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up the tyre
Checking the tyre circumference
Detail of the wheel
Tail vice and dog
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Letting off steam
Field gun wheels
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Shaping with a rasp
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Trimming the felloes
An interesting wheel!
Trimming with a drawknife
Using a rasp
Cooling the hot tyre
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up
Clamped in place for tyring
Drawknife in use
Wheel in position for the tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Hammering the tyre into place
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding the tyre
Welding
Cleaning up the weld
A 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up
Shaped handles just made.
Welding the tyre joint
Welding the tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
Drawknife in use again.
Applying a hot tyre
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
The first stage in shaping
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
A wheel in need of repair
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Cleaning up the tyre
An example of the wheelwrights art
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
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