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