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