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