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