European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a press on the tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Welding a tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
A few finishing taps
Close up of the hub
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Field gun wheels
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Welding
Drawknife in use again.
Checking the tyre circumference
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
An example of the wheelwrights art
A wheel in need of repair
Dampening the flames
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Welding a hub band
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Field gun wheels
Trimming with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
Shaping with a rasp
Hammering the tyre into place
Tail vice and dog
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Cleaning up the tyre
Cooling down
Second tyre being hammered into place
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Still cooling off.
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Welding the tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Using a press on the tyre join
Wheel in position for the tyre
Cleaning up
Adzes awaiting handles
Drawknife in use shaping
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up the felloes
Detail of the wheel
Shaping with a rasp
Welding a hub band
Spot welding
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Letting off steam
Cleaning up the weld
Cleaning up
Using a rasp to shape a notch
An example of wheel making in the past
Using a chipping hammer
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Sawing off the spoke ends
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Drawknife in use
Shaped handles just made.
The hot tyre in place
Sawing off the spoke ends
The first stage in shaping
Welding the tyre joint
Cooling the tyre down
Trimming the felloes
Fitting the felloes together
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Cleaning up the tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
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