Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Welding the tyre joint
Drawknife in use shaping
Field gun wheels
Shaped handles just made.
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Shaping with a drawknife
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cleaning up
Drawknife in use
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up the tyre
Detail of the wheel
Sawing off the spoke ends
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cooling down
Wheel in position for the tyre
Welding the tyre
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Spot welding
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