Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Still cooling off.
Shaped handles just made.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Cooling the hot tyre
The hot tyre in place
Drawknife in use on the felloes
An example of the wheelwrights art
Clamped in place for tyring
Tail vice and dog
The second tyre being hammered in place
Initial shaping
A few finishing taps
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up the felloes
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Fitting the hot tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Checking the tyre circumference
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Marking out a felloe
Using a press on the tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
A wheel in need of repair
Adzes awaiting handles
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
A 12 spoked wheel
Shaping with a rasp
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Using a chipping hammer
Tyre nearly in place
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Welding a tyre
Preparing the wheel for tyring
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding
Detail of the wheel
Cleaning up the tyre
A traveller in use on the wheel.
An example of wheel making in the past
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A taper auger
Applying a hot tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Drawknife in use again.
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Fitting the felloes together
Welding the tyre
Field gun wheels
Drawknife in use shaping
Cooling the tyre down
Using a press on the tyre join
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cleaning up
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cleaning up
Boring a hub the traditional way
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Trimming with a drawknife
Field gun wheels
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Drawknife in use
Welding the tyre joint
Shaping an adze handle
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Second tyre nearly in place
Letting off steam
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