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