Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Tail vice and dog
An example of the wheelwrights art
Trimming the felloes
Hammering the tyre into place
A taper auger
Cooling the hot tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Field gun wheels
Letting off steam
Using a press on the tyre
A wheel in need of repair
Welding the tyre
Fitting the hot tyre
Drawknife in use
A traveller in use on the wheel.
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding a hub band
Welding the tyre
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Shaping with a rasp
Clamped in place for tyring
Welding the tyre joint
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Close up of the hub
Using a rasp
Drawknife in use shaping
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Shaping with a drawknife
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up the weld
A 12 spoked wheel
Checking the tyre circumference
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