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