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