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