European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Spot welding
Welding the tyre joint
Still cooling off.
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up the weld
Drawknife in use shaping
Welding the tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cooling the tyre down
Shaped handles just made.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Sawing off the spoke ends
A taper auger
Hammering the tyre into place
A few finishing taps
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Drawknife in use
Welding a hub band
Checking the tyre circumference
Field gun wheels
The hot tyre in place
Fitting the felloes together
Shaping with a rasp
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Wheel awaiting a tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Cooling the hot tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
Boring a hub with a taper auger
An example of wheel making in the past
Drawknife in use
Fitting the hot tyre
Welding
Welding the tyre
Using a press on the tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Second tyre nearly in place
Drawknife in use on the felloes
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Second tyre being hammered into place
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Welding the tyre
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the tyre
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Close up of the hub
The first stage in shaping
Using a chipping hammer
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Clamped in place for tyring
Shaping with a rasp
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Trimming with a drawknife
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Trimming the felloes
Cooling down
Applying a hot tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Cleaning up
Marking out a felloe
Close up of the clamping
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Field gun wheels
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
A 12 spoked wheel
Boring a hub the traditional way
Welding a tyre
Letting off steam
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