Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Still cooling off.
Trimming with a drawknife
Fitting the hot tyre
Field gun wheels
An example of wheel making in the past
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
A 12 spoked wheel
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Wheel in position for the tyre
Welding the tyre joint
Second tyre nearly in place
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
An example of the wheelwrights art
A pile of iron hubs
The second tyre being hammered in place
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Shaping with a drawknife
Drawknife in use
The first stage in shaping
Cleaning up the weld
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Cooling the hot tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Drawknife in use again.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Shaped handles just made.
A taper auger
A few finishing taps
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding a hub band
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping an adze handle
Adzes awaiting handles
Tyre nearly in place
Drawknife in use
Using a rasp
Using a press on the tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
Close up of the clamping
Tail vice and dog
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Shaping with a rasp
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Clamping the wheel down
Cooling down
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Drawknife in use shaping
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Marking out a felloe
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Welding a tyre
Welding
Welding a hub band
Welding the tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Using a chipping hammer
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Close up of the hub
Drawknife in use
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Checking the tyre circumference
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Initial shaping
Sawing off the spoke ends
An interesting wheel!
Cleaning up the tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up
Sawing off the spoke ends
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Detail of the wheel
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