European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Close up of the hub
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up
Still cooling off.
Shaping with a drawknife
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Adzes awaiting handles
A few finishing taps
Wheel awaiting a tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding the tyre joint
Drawknife in use shaping
The first stage in shaping
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Applying a hot tyre
Drawknife in use
Welding a tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Shaping with a rasp
Welding the tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Initial shaping
Clamped in place for tyring
Welding
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Cleaning up
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cleaning up the weld
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Drawknife in use
A taper auger
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Second tyre nearly in place
Trimming the felloes
Clamping the wheel down
An example of wheel making in the past
The hot tyre in place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Marking out a felloe
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