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