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