European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Detail of the wheel
Welding
Cleaning up
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Checking the tyre circumference
Shaped handles just made.
Trimming the felloes
Second tyre being hammered into place
Sawing off the spoke ends
A 12 spoked wheel
Tail vice and dog
The first stage in shaping
Field gun wheels
Drawknife in use
Cooling down
Using a press on the tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding the tyre
Welding the tyre joint
A taper auger
Clamping the wheel down
Welding a hub band
Fitting the hot tyre
Drawknife in use
An interesting wheel!
Hammering the tyre into place
Second tyre nearly in place
Welding a tyre
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the felloes
Clamped in place for tyring
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Marking out a felloe
Cleaning up the tyre
Close up of the hub
A few finishing taps
Using a press on the tyre join
Welding the tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Drawknife in use shaping
Cleaning up
A pile of iron hubs
Trimming with a drawknife
The hot tyre in place
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Dampening the flames
Welding a hub band
Shaping an adze handle
Cooling the tyre down
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Close up of the clamping
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Spot welding
Initial shaping
Cooling the hot tyre
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up the tyre
Drawknife in use
An example of wheel making in the past
Boring a hub the traditional way
Shaping with a rasp
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Letting off steam
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