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