Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up the weld
Adzes awaiting handles
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
An example of wheel making in the past
Cleaning up the felloes
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Cooling the hot tyre
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Field gun wheels
Letting off steam
Shaped handles just made.
A taper auger
Wheel in position for the tyre
An interesting wheel!
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Marking out a felloe
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cooling the tyre down
Dampening the flames
Trimming with a drawknife
Shaping with a rasp
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use
Welding
An example of the wheelwrights art
Tyre nearly in place
Close up of the clamping
Second tyre nearly in place
Using a press on the tyre join
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Shaping an adze handle
Drawknife in use
Still cooling off.
A few finishing taps
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Welding the tyre
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Sawing off the spoke ends
The second tyre being hammered in place
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Detail of the wheel
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
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