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