European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Shaped handles just made.
Cleaning up
Shaping with a drawknife
Cooling down
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Cleaning up
Welding the tyre joint
A few finishing taps
Applying a hot tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Welding the tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Shaping with a rasp
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
The hot tyre in place
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
Still cooling off.
Welding the tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cooling the tyre down
Drawknife in use again.
Using a press on the tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Detail of the wheel
Using a chipping hammer
The second tyre being hammered in place
Shaping with a rasp
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
An example of the wheelwrights art
A taper auger
Cleaning up the weld
Welding
Tail vice and dog
Fitting the felloes together
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Boring a hub the traditional way
Clamped in place for tyring
A 12 spoked wheel
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Welding a hub band
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Wheel in position for the tyre
Initial shaping
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Field gun wheels
Adzes awaiting handles
Cleaning up the tyre
Close up of the hub
An example of wheel making in the past
Using a press on the tyre join
Wheel awaiting a tyre
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Welding a tyre
Welding a hub band
Cooling the hot tyre
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Shaping an adze handle
An interesting wheel!
Sawing off the spoke ends
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Field gun wheels
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Marking out a felloe
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