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