Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Applying a hot tyre
Close up of the hub
Close up of the clamping
Welding a hub band
Checking the tyre circumference
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Drawknife in use
Spot welding
Cooling the tyre down
Drawknife in use again.
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Field gun wheels
Using a chipping hammer
An example of the wheelwrights art
Sawing off the spoke ends
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Still cooling off.
Dampening the flames
An interesting wheel!
Field gun wheels
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
The hot tyre in place
Tyre nearly in place
Using a press on the tyre
Shaping with a rasp
A 12 spoked wheel
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