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