Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Using a rasp
An interesting wheel!
Cleaning up the weld
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Welding the tyre joint
Cleaning up the felloes
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Fitting the felloes together
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Letting off steam
Welding a hub band
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Cooling down
Cleaning up the tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
The hot tyre in place
Using a press on the tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Cleaning up
The first stage in shaping
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cooling the hot tyre
Close up of the hub
Initial shaping
Using a chipping hammer
Welding the tyre
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Shaped handles just made.
Clamping the wheel down
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Welding a tyre
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding the tyre
A wheel in need of repair
Shaping an adze handle
Drawknife in use again.
A pile of iron hubs
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping with a rasp
Cleaning up
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Drawknife in use shaping
Checking the tyre circumference
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
An example of the wheelwrights art
Second tyre nearly in place
Fitting the hot tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
Welding
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