Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up the tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
A taper auger
Cooling the tyre down
Boring a hub the traditional way
Shaping with a rasp
Cleaning up
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Fitting the felloes together
Drawknife in use
Shaping with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Field gun wheels
Clamping the wheel down
Welding a tyre
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Field gun wheels
Close up of the hub
Drawknife in use
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Using a rasp
Clamped in place for tyring
Detail of the wheel
Welding the tyre
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Wheel in position for the tyre
Still cooling off.
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Letting off steam
Second tyre nearly in place
Cooling down
Shaping with a rasp
Drawknife in use shaping
Shaped handles just made.
The first stage in shaping
Second tyre being hammered into place
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
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