European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Drawknife in use
Welding a hub band
An interesting wheel!
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Cooling down
Clamped in place for tyring
Shaped handles just made.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Hammering the tyre into place
Using a press on the tyre join
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Shaping an adze handle
Second tyre nearly in place
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Initial shaping
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Detail of the wheel
A taper auger
Drawknife in use
Welding the tyre
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Drawknife in use again.
The second tyre being hammered in place
Spot welding
Tyre nearly in place
Welding a hub band
Fitting the felloes together
Cleaning up
Letting off steam
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
A few finishing taps
Dampening the flames
A wheel in need of repair
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Trimming with a drawknife
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
An example of the wheelwrights art
Drawknife in use shaping
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up the weld
Second tyre being hammered into place
Clamping the wheel down
The first stage in shaping
Cleaning up the tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Tail vice and dog
Welding a tyre
Cleaning up
Welding
Cooling the hot tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
The hot tyre in place
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