European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Tail vice and dog
Using a press on the tyre
Drawknife in use again.
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Close up of the clamping
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
The hot tyre in place
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Hammering the tyre into place
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Second tyre being hammered into place
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Marking out a felloe
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Detail of the wheel
Wheel in position for the tyre
Trimming with a drawknife
Cooling the tyre down
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Shaping an adze handle
Using a rasp
Cooling down
Applying a hot tyre
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up the tyre
Drawknife in use
Field gun wheels
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Cooling the hot tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Letting off steam
Cleaning up
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Boring a hub the traditional way
Shaped handles just made.
Cleaning up the weld
Shaping with a rasp
Checking the tyre circumference
Using a press on the tyre join
A 12 spoked wheel
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Initial shaping
A few finishing taps
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Second tyre nearly in place
Welding the tyre joint
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