European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up
Fitting the felloes together
Shaping with a rasp
Tyre nearly in place
Welding
Clamped in place for tyring
Drawknife in use
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Using a press on the tyre join
Tail vice and dog
Shaping with a rasp
A 12 spoked wheel
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Field gun wheels
Cooling the tyre down
Shaping with a drawknife
Welding the tyre joint
Still cooling off.
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up the weld
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Close up of the clamping
Cleaning up
A pile of iron hubs
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding a hub band
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Welding the tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
A taper auger
An interesting wheel!
Using a press on the tyre
Shaped handles just made.
Welding a hub band
A wheel in need of repair
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Applying a hot tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Clamping the wheel down
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Using a rasp
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Drawknife in use again.
Drawknife in use
Cooling down
The first stage in shaping
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Initial shaping
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Adzes awaiting handles
An example of wheel making in the past
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up the tyre
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cooling the hot tyre
Drawknife in use shaping
Shaping an adze handle
Welding a tyre
Wheel in position for the tyre
Detail of the wheel
Cleaning up the tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Using a chipping hammer
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Close up of the hub
Welding the tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Spot welding
Boring a hub the traditional way
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Hammering the tyre into place
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