European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Field gun wheels
A wheel in need of repair
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up
Adzes awaiting handles
Detail of the wheel
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Fitting the felloes together
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use again.
Cooling down
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the tyre
Tail vice and dog
Field gun wheels
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Second tyre nearly in place
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up with the drawknife
A few finishing taps
Shaping with a rasp
A taper auger
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up the felloes
Wheel in position for the tyre
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cleaning up
Drawknife in use on the felloes
The second tyre being hammered in place
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Initial shaping
Welding a hub band
The hot tyre in place
Clamped in place for tyring
Second tyre being hammered into place
Close up of the hub
Shaping with a rasp
Shaping an adze handle
Cooling the tyre down
Tyre nearly in place
Applying a hot tyre
Drawknife in use
Fitting the hot tyre
Welding a hub band
Sawing off the spoke ends
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