European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Detail of the wheel
Cooling the tyre down
Letting off steam
The first stage in shaping
Initial shaping
Using a chipping hammer
Second tyre nearly in place
Welding a tyre
Welding the tyre joint
Still cooling off.
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cleaning up
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Using a press on the tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Adzes awaiting handles
Fitting the felloes together
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Close up of the clamping
Using a press on the tyre join
An example of the wheelwrights art
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a rasp
Sawing off the spoke ends
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