European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Shaping with a rasp
Marking out a felloe
Shaping an adze handle
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Shaping with a drawknife
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
The hot tyre in place
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Drawknife in use again.
Clamping the wheel down
Tail vice and dog
Sawing off the spoke ends
The first stage in shaping
Welding a hub band
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Applying a hot tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Shaping with a rasp
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up the tyre
Field gun wheels
Detail of the wheel
An example of the wheelwrights art
Hammering the tyre into place
Welding a tyre
A few finishing taps
Drawknife in use
Wheel in position for the tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Cooling down
Using a press on the tyre join
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Adzes awaiting handles
Second tyre nearly in place
Close up of the clamping
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Spot welding
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Clamped in place for tyring
Welding the tyre joint
A taper auger
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cleaning up
Boring a hub the traditional way
Still cooling off.
Using a press on the tyre
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Drawknife in use shaping
Letting off steam
Drawknife in use
Second tyre being hammered into place
The second tyre being hammered in place
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