European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Tyre nearly in place
Clamped in place for tyring
Letting off steam
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Sawing off the spoke ends
Still cooling off.
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Cleaning up the tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up with the drawknife
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
A taper auger
Welding the tyre
Boring a hub the traditional way
An example of wheel making in the past
A wheel in need of repair
Drawknife in use
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
A traveller in use on the wheel.
An example of the wheelwrights art
Close up of the clamping
Second tyre nearly in place
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Drawknife in use
Checking the tyre circumference
Wheel in position for the tyre
The hot tyre in place
Cooling the tyre down
Field gun wheels
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
A pile of iron hubs
Fitting the felloes together
Spot welding
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Fitting the hot tyre
Shaped handles just made.
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
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