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