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