European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Cooling the tyre down
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Drawknife in use shaping
Cleaning up
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Welding a hub band
Field gun wheels
A taper auger
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Adzes awaiting handles
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Welding a tyre
Welding the tyre
Shaped handles just made.
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cooling the hot tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
An interesting wheel!
An example of wheel making in the past
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Drawknife in use again.
Sawing off the spoke ends
A 12 spoked wheel
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Detail of the wheel
Initial shaping
Dampening the flames
Welding the tyre joint
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Second tyre nearly in place
The hot tyre in place
Tail vice and dog
Wheel in position for the tyre
Spot welding
Using a press on the tyre join
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