European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Drawknife in use
Drawknife in use on the felloes
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Cleaning up with the drawknife
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Welding the tyre
Letting off steam
Shaping with a drawknife
Cooling the hot tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Field gun wheels
Close up of the clamping
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Drawknife in use again.
An example of wheel making in the past
Clamping the wheel down
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up the weld
Shaping with a rasp
Cleaning up the felloes
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