European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cooling down
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Drawknife in use shaping
Shaping with a drawknife
Field gun wheels
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Marking out a felloe
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
An example of the wheelwrights art
Applying a hot tyre
Welding a tyre
Clamped in place for tyring
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Welding the tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Drawknife in use
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up
The first stage in shaping
Shaped handles just made.
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cleaning up the weld
Second tyre nearly in place
Still cooling off.
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Boring a hub the traditional way
Cooling the tyre down
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Drawknife in use on the felloes
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding a hub band
Sawing off the spoke ends
Fitting the hot tyre
A wheel in need of repair
Cooling the hot tyre
A few finishing taps
Field gun wheels
Welding the tyre
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