European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Drawknife in use again.
Cleaning up
Dampening the flames
Shaping with a rasp
Checking the tyre circumference
Welding a tyre
Close up of the clamping
An interesting wheel!
Field gun wheels
An example of wheel making in the past
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Drawknife in use shaping
Clamped in place for tyring
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Clamping the wheel down
Fitting the felloes together
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Using a rasp
Tyre nearly in place
Using a press on the tyre join
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
An example of the wheelwrights art
Tail vice and dog
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Sawing off the spoke ends
Welding a hub band
Adzes awaiting handles
Using a chipping hammer
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cooling the hot tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding the tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Still cooling off.
A wheel in need of repair
Welding the tyre
Letting off steam
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up the weld
Drawknife in use
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