European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Clamping the wheel down
Field gun wheels
Drawknife in use
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Cooling the tyre down
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Initial shaping
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Cleaning up the felloes
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
An example of wheel making in the past
Letting off steam
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Using a rasp
Close up of the hub
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Drawknife in use
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Trimming with a drawknife
Shaping with a drawknife
Second tyre nearly in place
Applying a hot tyre
Cleaning up
Welding a tyre
Drawknife in use shaping
Dampening the flames
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Fitting the hot tyre
Drawknife in use
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Wheel in position for the tyre
Marking out a felloe
Tyre nearly in place
Fitting the felloes together
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Tail vice and dog
Welding the tyre joint
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Boring a hub the traditional way
Cleaning up with the drawknife
An example of the wheelwrights art
Hammering the tyre into place
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Spot welding
Shaped handles just made.
Shaping an adze handle
Welding the tyre
Close up of the clamping
Cooling down
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
An interesting wheel!
The hot tyre in place
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Shaping with a rasp
A wheel in need of repair
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Detail of the wheel
Welding the tyre
A taper auger
Cleaning up the weld
Using a press on the tyre join
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Welding the tyre
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